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Preventing felons from voting is just how it is, right? Wrong. There’s a history. There were choices. And we can change it.

With our democracy under siege, we should use all legal arguments to restore voting rights to as many people as possible.

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Federal judge stops Texas' abortion vigilante law after dismantling it in written opinion

Robert Pitman is your new favorite person.

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The state of our bail system is so corrupt you don’t need to be convicted to lose your rights -- or face a death sentence

How can we claim people are innocent until proven guilty?

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What would justice look like if all missing women got the attention Gabby Petito did?

An estimated 64,000-75,000 Black women and girls are missing.

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Weekend read: No, family courts are not biased against men

They favor men, actually.

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Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections

We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.

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Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states

Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.

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There's no such thing as law to police trans women that wouldn’t ultimately hurt all women

The Taliban’s oppression of women, and extreme hostility towards trans people, exemplifies how intertwined our liberation really is.

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We owe it to Afghans to let as many in as possible, but let’s avoid arguments over 'desirable' and 'undesirable' immigrants

People deserve refuge even if they didn’t help us.

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We can recycle to our heart’s content, but without large-scale government action, we'll never get climate change under control

No matter what we do, we are locked into the warming effects of climate change until at least 2050, according to a new UN report.

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The 14th Amendment does not make abortion unconstitutional

There’s little evidence writers of the 14th Amendment considered fetuses or abortion or pregnancy or really even women.

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For women shut out of the criminal system, civil litigation is a powerful tool for accountability

A criminal court is not the only place to support their voices.