SCOTUS Blocks Missouri GOP Congressional Map — For Third Time
From today’s NPR News: In a case watched across the country and as voting begins in the midterm elections, the Supreme Court blocked a congressional map in Missouri that was…
Stung by Voting Rights Decision, Many Black Southerners Plan for November
From today’s New York Times: Across the South, from the Mississippi Delta to Georgia’s suburbs, Black Democratic candidates are imploring Black voters to rise up and secure the representation this…
New Mexico’s Attorney General Pushes Social Media Safety Laws After Court Victory Over Meta
From today’s The Guardian: New Mexico’s attorney general is mounting a full-court press against technology companies to improve their child safety measures, capitalizing on a landmark win in court against…
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers
From today’s New York Times: More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased, after…
Republicans Tell Trump, Change Course On SAVE America Act
From today’s MS Now: For months, President Donald Trump has relentlessly pressed Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. An increasing number of Republicans say it’s time for him to…
SCOTUS Upholds Mississippi Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballot Law
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Mississippi’s grace period for late-arriving mail-in ballots, rejecting a push by the Trump administration to invalidate a state law.…
Law Students Fight For Workplace Protections
From today’s NPR News: Law schools often push students to work for the federal courts, in prestigious jobs as interns or clerks. But those students can get a harsh surprise…
Congress Passes Legislation To Speed Up Collective Bargaining for Union Contracts
From today’s New Jersey Globe: Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden)’s bill to speed up the collective bargaining process passed the House yesterday evening, a major victory for the South Jersey congressman…
Who Will Speak for Workers in the Age of AI?
From today’s NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights: On 1 May 1933, approximately one million people gathered on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin for one of the largest mass…
SCOTUS Approves Alabama Map To Erase Majority-Black District
From today’s The Guardian: Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled…