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July 30, 2026

Tidbits-July 30: Reader Comments: Elections 2026, 2028-Democratic Socialists Further Advance; Should AOC Run for President; Jewish Socialists Helped Build Multiracial Democracy; Strikes of Attorneys Representing Poor Clients; Dr. Fauci; Lots More;

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Reader Comments: Elections 2026 and 2028 - Democratic Socialists Further Advance; AOC Should Run for President; Jewish Socialists Helped Build Multiracial Democracy; Strikes of Attorneys Representing Poor Clients; Dr. Fauci; lots more and Cartoons;

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July 27, 2026

Bronx Defenders Union Walks Off the Job, Joining Ongoing Strike of Attorneys Who Represent Court Clients That Can’t Afford To Pay

Max Parrot and Emily Swanson amNY

Photo of people on a picket line with signs that say UAW on strike

Around 300 staff with the Bronx Defenders Union walked off the job on Monday — the third such guild to strike this month over economic demands on behalf of its lowest-paid workers.

March 25, 2023

Gideon v. Wainwright Was a Landmark Decision, but Women Invented the Idea of the Public Defender

Emily Galvin-Almanza Teen Vogue

When we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Gideon ruling this year — recognizing the right to counsel conferred by Gideon’s persistence and Justice Hugo Black’s resolve — we are erasing a far longer and richer legacy: the history of the women who invented the idea of the public defender.

John Oliver: Public Defenders

September 25, 2015

The Miranda warning includes the right to a public defender. It doesn’t include the fact that public defenders are highly overworked and grossly underpaid.

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