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Joe Biden's clemency moves ignore the mass incarceration that he helped to create

SCOTUS conservatives score another law-free win — and even Neil Gorsuch thinks they're overdoing it

New York's Hochul, Ohio's DeWine both pick conservative prosecutors for state high court openings

Law Dork, six months on

After governor's attempt, Nevada will not clear out its death row this week

The Respect for Marriage Act is law — a long way from 1996, with much further to go

Brett Kavanaugh reportedly went to a Christmas party full of right-wing, ideological partisans

The "independent state legislature" scheme is a scam, and even this court seems to get that

Wednesday's nonsense "independent state legislature" case at the Supreme Court

The Respect for Marriage Act isn't perfect, but it is important. Let's talk about it.

Missouri kills Kevin Johnson, despite pending claims that racism underlies his death sentence

Failures of capital punishment: Alabama, Missouri, and Oklahoma

It's been a very bad weekend. We will support each other, though, and the work will continue.

Judges and democracy, and democracy

The Senate's marriage move — what it means and how it's different from the House bill

Amici: Advancing inclusion in a time when the Supreme Court majority doesn't seem to care

What kind of week has it been?

Three questions for one of the Supreme Court Dobbs protestors

5,000!

Oklahoma argues its desire to kill John Hanson trumps feds' transfer denial decision

Law Dork enters the chat

The coming end of affirmative action

Breaking: Oklahoma sues the Biden administration in the state's quest to kill John Hanson

Oklahoma wants the feds to transfer a man in federal prison to their custody so they can kill him

The attacks on LGBTQ people — especially trans people — aren't stopping

Amici: How a painting of Prince could threaten documentary filmmaking

The Supreme Court won't let a racist jury stop a death sentence

Biden's marijuana moves: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is here

A new SCOTUS term

Election-denying candidates are bad news, no matter where they’re running

The Biden administration supports the death penalty

Trump judges, all around

Ron DeSantis is not a cat

John Roberts is wrong about questioning the court's legitimacy. John Roberts told us so.

The PrEP decision is bad — but the question now is whether any judges will stop it

Judge Aileen Cannon is Trump's best lawyer in years

Oklahoma's secretary of education hates library cards

Trump and DeSantis, two Florida men, still at it

Emergency abortion care question could be headed to the Supreme Court

Exclusive: Philly DA Larry Krasner rejects Pennsylvania legislative subpoenas

Police brutality caught on tape, again

This is what anti-democracy looks like!

The Biden administration's emergency care abortion guidance goes to court(s)

Thoughts on a particular search warrant

There are warrants — but the public hasn't seen them

Ignoring Kansas vote, Indiana bans almost all abortion

The dangers — and history — lurking in the Florida drag brunch complaint

Michigan legal fights highlight post-Roe confusion

Alabama execution included an unexplained three-hour delay

Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law is a discriminatory threat to LGBTQ people, lawyers tell federal court

This is what instability looks like (the courts, not me)

Marry Me (A Little)

Lessons from Ohio

Jeff Crossman wants to protect abortion rights — but needs to defeat Ohio AG Dave Yost first

[Take me to] A galaxy far, far away

What is she thinking?

The un-democracy of San Francisco's recall

Dealing with the wreckage

The Supreme Court is making governing difficult

Exit Stephen Breyer

Religious supremacy, it is (again)

The Supreme Court still isn't done with us

Why would anyone trust Sam Alito?

The end of Roe

Clarence Thomas's time machine

Religious supremacy, it is

A lot is happening