As Merriam-Webster’s representatives have pointed out, there are many stories in the news that may have conspired to drive folk to look up the word “justice” more than any other last year. Maybe we can consider it a social opportunity?
Climate Kids and the nonprofit backing them have won their time in court.
One of Kavanaugh’s first cases seeks a ruling on immigrant detention for deportation. Just what does that look like?
Students from more than 30 law schools began a series of walkouts yesterday afternoon to protest the US Senate’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. They wore black in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse.
Pieces like Rashad Robinson’s video need to be reinforced often wherever we show up. The strength of a narrative is in its retelling by the many in all circumstances where it applies. Each of us is an agent in this struggle for more equitable voice in this democracy. That is how democracy sustains and reforms. That is us.
The connective tissue between two ads that ran more than a generation apart says much about the staying power of the Black feminist movement, which white progressives have often given less than a second thought.
“That neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus, so that trauma-related experience is locked there, so other memories just drift.” This is how Dr. Ford described why she was so certain of her memories of the sexual assault she claims occurred at Brett Kavanaugh’s hands. That memory drove her to action on behalf of all of us, so let’s take a page from her book and return the favor.
A recent Supreme Court ruling closes a 40-year-old loophole that let individual donors of large sums to nonprofit advocacy groups remain anonymous.
On August 27th, a three-judge federal panel ruled that the current congressional district map for North Carolina was unconstitutionally drawn to favor Republicans over Democrats. It may need to be redrawn before the November elections.
Fueled by the Supreme Court’s encouragement, two new suits were recently filed seeking a further closing of the divide between church and state.
