With SCOTUS' extremist behavior, the need for substantive reform is imperative if we're to have a judiciary that reflects a functioning democracy.
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The Court says emotional distress is no longer worthy of compensatory damages, further stripping marginalized peoples—the most frequent victims of discrimination—of their...
Many Republicans voted for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Appellate Court. But they'll do anything to keep a brilliant, more-than-qualified Black woman from being appointed to the...
And the only way to break free of the gridlock is to expand the court. Will President Biden, who is filling court vacancies as fast as he can, add to the bench?
Britney Spears’s inability to escape her conservatorship exposes a punitive civil court system that fails to protect those with mental health issues.
By ignoring the rules, the Trump administration exposed the innumerable fissures in our democracy. With Mike "My Pillow" Lindell's b.s. defamation suit, lawyers are taking it even...
The Department of Corrections fails to acknowledge incarcerated trans identities. A first-hand account by a trans woman who is fighting for prisoners to have their authentic selves be...
In the wake of RBG’s death and amid the Supreme Court’s dangerously rightward lurch, Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the moral compass, calling out devastatingly bad...
Most rape crisis and domestic-violence programs wouldn’t survive without government funding that ties them to the police—and it’s left advocates trapped in a toxic dynamic.