justice
Trump judges blow big hole in age discrimination law
February 15, 2019When Congress enacted the ADEA in 1967, its drafters had no reason to expect judges would be acting as grammarians. Then, the Supreme Court and lower courts interpreted anti-discrimination laws as broadly as possible
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Voters oust corrupt, racist Cook County judge
November 13, 2018Matthew Coghlan's ouster marks the first time in 28 years that citizens in Cook County have voted a judge off the bench.
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‘Boys will be boys’: The racial double standards in the Kavanaugh case
October 3, 2018Generally, all else being equal, a person of color is going to receive a harsher sentence than a white person for the same criminal charge.
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Artist Ben Shahn was moved by the Tom Mooney case
July 25, 2018Ben Shahn was moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) currently has a display of these works...
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Government reopens case of Emmett Till, Black youth murdered in 1955
July 12, 2018The Justice Department told Congress in a report it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying after receiving “new information.”
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