Shadow of Segregation Looms
The HIll
On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board
On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board
On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board
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Inside the Effort by Two Beverly Hills Billionaires To Kill a State Law Protecting Farmworkers
Los Angeles Times
If it succeeds, California’s legal protections for farmworkers could be rolled back to conditions that prevailed before César Chavez’s campaigns for farm unionization in the 1960s.
The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—As They Always Have
The Nation
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.
We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court
Dissent
The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024
Portside
Rights in free fall
The Supreme Court Effectively Abolishes the Right to Mass Protest in Three States
Vox
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas. The Court’s decision to leaves the Fifth Circuit’s attack on the First Amendment in place. The Fifth Circuit’s Mckesson decision remains good law in those three states.
No, Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend
The Nation
The former justice is calling on Americans to emulate the civility of Supreme Court justices, never mind the extreme harm some of those justices are doing.
Supreme Court May Give Us Another 2008 Financial Crisis
The Lever
A new case could decimate state-level consumer protections against predatory banking practices.
Tidbits – Apr4 2024 – Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Israelis Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; the Black Scholar Journal: Legacies, Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6&7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May1
Portside
Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Why Do Israelis Feel So Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; The Black Scholar Journal: Legacies and Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6 & 7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May 1
The Little-Remembered Supreme Court Precedent That Could Protect IVF — and Abortion
Politico
A half-century before Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that family life is off limits from government interference. Could that case provide a way to protect both IVF and abortion?
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