Biden’s death row orders grant justice where Supreme Court has grown hostile to claims of racial bias
OPINION: The nation’s highest court’s recent treatment of capital cases is rife with disregard for systemic racial ...
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White judge who threatened to shoot Black teens has resigned
State Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall has resigned from her position in New York after bodycam video reveals that the White judge threatened to shoot ...
A lynching in the family inspired Michigan's first Black woman elected justice to pursue the law
According to the Equal Justice Initiative, Bond was lynched in 1939 in Arlington, Tennessee, after asking a store owner for a ...
White Judge Who Threatened to Shoot Black Teens at Party Resigns
Justice Erin P. Gall of Oneida County, N.Y., faced removal from office after a judicial commission found that she engaged in ...
US Senate confirms final 2 Biden judges, adding to diversity records
President Joe Biden’s number of lifetime appointments to the federal bench surpassed the first Trump administration’s and set ...
President Biden Has Appointed 40 Black Women Judges
President Joe Biden is reshaping the federal judiciary in a historic way, appointing a record-breaking 40 Black women judges ...
Black enrollment at Harvard Law lowest since 1960s after affirmative action ruling
Harvard Law School is reporting its lowest Black student enrollment since the 1960s just one year after the Supreme Court’s ...
Steep decline in Black, Hispanic enrollment at Harvard Law after Supreme Court ruling
The first Harvard Law class admitted since the Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action at U.S. colleges last year ...
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A lynching in the family inspired Michigan's first Black woman elected justice to pursue the law
During Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris ... where Justice Melody Stewart had been the first Black woman justice, her reelection loss makes for an all-white court. In Kentucky, Court ...
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A lynching in the family inspired Michigan's first Black woman elected justice to pursue the law
Indiana’s five-member court, which is all white, is led by Chief Justice ... by the work of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She started as a court stenographer ...