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Inside the ‘vanquished’ Department of Justice (CT+) – Consider This from NPR – NPR
Bonus Consider This from NPR Inside the ‘vanquished’ Department of Justice (CT+) November 22, 2025, 3:05 PM ET Editor’s Note: This pocast is a bonus version; behind a subscriber site. An older version of the report is in Sources & Methods podcast here: The nation’s top law enforcement agency has been “vanquished.” That’s the argument…
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A justice’s most lasting legacy – SCOTUSblog
Home Newsletters, EMPIRICAL SCOTUS A justice’s most lasting legacy By Adam Feldman, on Nov 14, 2025 Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and what we can expect from the court in the…
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Sonia Sotomayor: The People’s Justice and the Voice of Conscience – A Special SCOTUS Series
Sonia Sotomayor: The People’s Justice and the Voice of Conscience Early Life and Education Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in 1954 in the Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents who had migrated to the mainland after World War II. Her father, a tool-and-die worker, died when she was nine, leaving her mother, Celina, to…
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Letters from an American – September 16, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 16, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson Sep 16, 2025 The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.” It’s a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or…
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A Prosecutor Sues – Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance There is a lot of factual and legal detail in the case, but it’s important because it will have an impact on Trump’s ability to fire at will in the federal bureaucracy, ignoring existing civil service protections for government employees, not just at DOJ, but likely closer to government wide.…
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Civil Discourse – Trying To Suppress the Vote, Again – Joyce Vance – Substack
On Tuesday, in Atlanta, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Fair Fight v. Source Links: Trying To Suppress the Vote, Again
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Bar organizations’ statement in support of the rule of law
March 26, 2025Bar organizations’ statement in support of the rule of law CHICAGO, March 26, 2025 — We the undersigned bar organizations stand together with and in support of the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. In particular, as outlined by…
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Opinion | Justice Merchan will sentence Trump – The Washington Post
President-elect Donald Trump will enter office as a convicted and sentenced criminal, provided the Supreme Court does not once again swoop in to spare him the consequences of his illegal conduct. The Post reported: “The decision to uphold Trump’s conviction and schedule the sentencing for Jan. 10 almost certainly means Trump will be the first…
