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This Attack on a Federal Judge Is Preposterous
August 4, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Nancy Gertner: Last week, in a post on social media, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department filed a misconduct…
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McDermott and Schulte complete latest US law firm merger
August 4, 2025
U.S. law firms McDermott, Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel have completed their planned merger, as firms’ appetite for greater legal market share…
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An op-ed by Cass Sunstein: Democrats need alliances between Baptists and bootleggers. So do Republicans, but right now, they have plenty of those alliances, which is…
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Massachusetts environmental lawyers and advocates warned this week that a regulatory change proposed by the Trump administration will make it more difficult for the government…
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Someone Is Defying the Supreme Court, but It Isn’t Trump
July 31, 2025
An op-ed by Adrian Vermeule: Since President Trump returned to the presidency for a second term, legal scholars and political writers have wrestled with a particular…
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Congress Is Surrendering Its Last Real Power
July 31, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: This hasn’t been a good year for Congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding…
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EPA’s proposal to undo a key scientific finding that supports most climate regulations included an unexpected legal argument. The draft to scuttle the so-called endangerment…
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Massachusetts relies more on private attorneys than any other state in the country to provide free legal services to poor people accused of crimes. It’s…
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EPA’s efforts to dismantle the endangerment finding mark a major victory for conservatives’ decades-long campaign to block the federal government from using landmark environmental laws…
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Meta’s big Louisiana data center has united these two opposing groups. What’s behind it?
July 30, 2025
It’s not often that environmental groups and oil companies team up for a cause. The plan to power Meta’s giant AI data center in remote…
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The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a proposal on Tuesday to reverse its own conclusion that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare.
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7/25/2025: U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.)
July 28, 2025
Retired Boston federal court Judge Nancy Gertner analyzes a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively ended nationwide injunctions, weighs in on the Trump administration’s…
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As we honor Disability Pride Month (July), it’s essential to recognize how the accelerating climate crisis disproportionately affects people with disabilities and why climate justice…
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Paper planes whizzed and dipped and careened into the audience while parents gleefully ducked for cover. At the front of the drab hotel conference room,…
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A Texas man whose girlfriend used abortion pills to end her pregnancy is suing a California doctor who allegedly mailed her the medication in what…
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An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: Retired judge Michael Luttig and I organized a letter opposing President Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment…
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Montana groups push against Congressional NEPA attacks
July 24, 2025
Just as they did when the Gianforte administration started chipping away at Montana’s Environmental Protection Act, a few Montana environmental groups are pushing back against…
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How Trump is using the courts to get what he wants – and changing the shape of presidential power
July 22, 2025
It was a warm, late May afternoon in 2024 in lower Manhattan. The jury in Donald Trump’s trial over hush money paid by his former…
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Harvard Constitutional Law Professor [Laurence] Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the university’s case against the $2.6 billion in cuts to research grants and…
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In GOP-led states like New Hampshire, communities feel the fallout of staying silent on Trump’s funding cuts
July 21, 2025
When schools across the country got word last month that the Trump administration was withholding billions of dollars in congressionally approved funds for public education,…
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After reconciliation, lawmakers return to permitting
July 21, 2025
Lawmakers are looking at bipartisan dealmaking on permitting after several Republican proposals failed to make the cut in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Committees…