Subtle Shifts ⚖️

Win Mcnamee / Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts last year. WASHINGTON — Thirteen years into the job, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. remains a conservative — but he has shifted to a more moderate position among the conservative justices on the court, a small change with potentially dramatic consequences. Among the justices appointed […]

DACA To SCOTUS ⚖️

The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will take the unusual step of immediately petitioning the US Supreme Court to challenge a judge’s order that partially revived the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. An appeal would normally go to a federal circuit court — in this case, the US Court of Appeals […]

World War Twee 🐦 ⚖️

For years, the controversial right-wing activist Charles C. Johnson has threatened to sue Twitter, which banned him in 2015. Now, following a BuzzFeed News report that revealed the internal debate behind Twitter’s 2015 decision to bar him from its service, Johnson is putting his money where his mouth has long been. In a lawsuit filed […]

A Crime To Remember ⚖️

After Emilie Inman was stabbed to death in Berkeley, the online far-right seized on the case, not because of the brutality of the crime but because of the suspect’s gender identity, race, and leftist activism. “These are feral ‘people,’ prone to violence. Avoid!” Let’s block ads! (Why?) BuzzFeed – Latest

Heavens To Betsy ⚖️

A group of 18 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its oversight of for-profit colleges, saying that the Education Department’s refusal to enforce a regulation punishing predatory career programs “leaves students vulnerable to exploitation and fraud.” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has made a rollback of President Obama’s higher education policy a […]