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Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
The Eighth Circuit's Turtle Mountain Band case previews the next phase of the conservative movement's war on the Voting Rights Act.
Sweeping changes to key student loan programs will make it harder for aspiring public interest attorneys to attend law school—and exacerbate this country's justice gap.
Trump keeps losing to unions in court because organized labor has spent decades building the infrastructure to protect workers' rights.
The Trump v Boyle order shows that the conservative justices simply expect lower court judges to read their minds now.
The Johns Hopkins lawsuit show how conservatives are transforming principles of equal protection into tools for preserving racial hierarchy.
Chief Standing Bear’s speech nearly 150 years ago showed the power of the human stories that the legal system often obscures.
A problem with Trump's PBS lawsuit is that the Corporation for Public Board members he wants to fire don't actually work for him.
Heather Atherton is a graduate of the City Colleges of Chicago and Lake Forest College, and received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. She is an incoming Staff Attorney at the Bronx ...
Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide. A pair of newly appointed White House lawyers could do exactly that.
This term, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her dissents to reveal an important truth about the Supreme Court.
Earlier this week, all fifteen federal district judges in Maryland received a summons in a civil lawsuit: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state’s entire federal district court in ...