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Media Mentions
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Artificial intelligence is seeping into daily routines, helping to craft emails, keep track of schedules and manage other tasks more efficiently. Much of AI’s potential…
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For years, Republicans have sought to consolidate power at the state and federal level by controlling the redistricting process through which congressional boundaries are drawn.
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Medicaid was my passport to the world
August 6, 2025
An article by Anne Fracht: My first seizure came when I was 11 years old. My mother took me out of school and from hospital…
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An op-ed written by Jody Freeman:President Trump has been trying to eliminate climate regulations since his first day back in office when he signed an…
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When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago this month, Meghan Garvey was fresh out of law school. She was not even certified to…
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Nineteen years ago, toward the end of the George W. Bush Administration, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case prompted by government…
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The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes
August 5, 2025
The six-member conservative majority on the Supreme Court has become a key enabler of President Trump’s agenda. “Since May, federal district courts have ruled against…
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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,…