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Nancy Gertner
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Criminals on campus: Student sexual assault survivors seeking justice face murky process under Title IX amid political shifts
August 1, 2023
Early in the morning on a fall day in 2020, a Harvard student was abruptly awoken at a friend’s out-of-state home by a classmate sexually…
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Aileen M. Cannon, the federal judge assigned to the Justice Department’s criminal case against former president Donald Trump, will set the pace and rules for…
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Inside the indictment of Donald Trump
June 12, 2023
An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,” Special Counsel Jack Smith announced in…
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The pattern was chillingly similar in each attack. The assailant lured women into his car in downtown Boston, authorities say, and then drove them to…
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A letter by Nancy Gertner: In its May 18 editorial, “Biden and Garland should play it safe in choice to replace Rollins,” the Globe asserted…
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Amid raging debate in Congress over Supreme Court ethics, White House reluctant to step in
May 9, 2023
Chatter on Capitol Hill about ethical standards at the Supreme Court has reached a fever pitch following the steady stream of revelations about Justice Clarence…
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Conservatives have pointed to incidents concerning other judges, such as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch not recusing themselves from cases involving their book publisher.
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Justices’ Ethics Statement No Balm For Court Critics
April 27, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court justices took the rare step on Tuesday of acknowledging the growing drumbeat of criticism about its ethical guidelines, but ethics experts say…
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An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…
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Where the legal battle over Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence stands a decade after the Marathon bombing
April 17, 2023
As Boston marks 10 years since the city’s deadliest terrorist attack, the legal battle drags on in federal court to determine the fate of the…
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‘Abortionists.’ ‘Unborn human.’ Legal experts blast ‘incendiary’ rhetoric of Texas ruling on abortion pill.
April 11, 2023
An unprecedented preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone signals a new…
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
April 6, 2023
IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet…
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When the U.S. Senate confirmed Indiana federal judge Matthew P. Brookman last week, he became just the third of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks to…
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
The policymaking body of the federal courts recently issued revised rules requiring all judges to offer a fuller accounting of meals, trips, and gifts they…
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.
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Boston Public Radio full show: March 2, 2023
March 3, 2023
Today on Boston Public Radio, live from the Boston Public Library: We opened the phone lines to hear from listeners about the future of automation…
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Boston Public Radio Full Show: Feb. 13, 2023
February 14, 2023
Today on Boston Public Radio: We started the show with listener reactions to the U.S. military shooting down multiple unidentified objects in North American airspace.
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Boston Public Radio full show: Jan. 27, 2023
January 30, 2023
Hon. Nancy Gertner discussed the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, reports of discord among the Supreme Court justices and questions of whether there ought…