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Privilege Denied: Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By White and Asian Parents Challenging Boston Schools’ ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy That Increased Admission of Black and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a case brought ... in 2021 had a racial composition of 35 percent Black, 36 percent Hispanic, 16 percent white, 7 percent Asian, and 5 percent multiracial ...
North Carolina Gov. Cooper commutes sentences of 15 death row inmates
One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Supreme Court Goes Back to Normal in Term With Few Blockbusters
After blockbusters dominated the docket in back-to-back terms, the US Supreme Court is returning to a bit of normalcy.
Jimmy Carter never appointed a Supreme Court justice, but he left a remarkable judicial legacy
Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SCOTUS affirmative action ban: Drop in Black students at elite colleges sparks concerns among current students
As the number of Black students drops among new enrollees at elite colleges, some worry minority students won't feel welcomed ...