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Right wing takes aim at state courts

August 15, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Business and its right-wing allies are targeting the states' supreme courts for takeover.

Supreme Court upholds health care law

June 28, 2012 By John Wojcik

In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld virtually all of the health reform law to extend health coverage to most uninsured Americans.

Children and the courts

June 28, 2012 By Thomas Riggins

We can congratulate the Supreme Court for its recent decision that sentencing children to life in prison without parole is unconstitutional.

Thousands wrongly convicted

May 22, 2012 By Dan Margolis

In the last 23 years alone, more than 2,000 people were falsely convicted, but probably far more people are in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Labor takes fight against the right into the courts

September 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Labor's fight against the radical Right isn't just occurring in the streets or at the ballot box. Unions are challenging the Right Wing's schemes in court, too.