In the midst of a dizzying array of decisions on the cutting edge of politics, life, and discrimination, it remains business as usual when it comes to blessing police violence at the Supreme Court. Today, the Supreme Court refused to review two dangerous decisions of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers where George Floyd… Read More
This month, the Supreme Court decided Kisela v. Hughes, a case that makes it even more difficult to hold police officers accountable for unlawfully shooting the people they are supposed to serve and protect. Police officers are almost never meaningfully investigated, much less disciplined, by their fellow law enforcement agencies for shooting people. And they’re even… Read More
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that is likely to dramatically change our country’s special education system. The Court is poised to decide whether school districts are required to provide disabled students with a meaningful education. That ruling, coupled with the priorities of Trump and his proposed education secretary Betsy DeVos (who is… Read More
The LGBT community and its allies are wondering: was Trump just pandering to the right with his anti-LGBT talk during the campaigns or will President Trump affirmatively seek to roll back marriage equality? Only time will tell, but given Trump’s consistent history of opposing marriage equality over the past 17 years, it is important to… Read More
We ache again over senseless police shootings of black men. In the span of two days, two tragic police killings of black men have shaken our sense of justice. In the first, Alton Sterling was literally pinned to the ground by an officer when a second cop shot him at close range. In the other… Read More
