Mia Brett
Mia Brett, PhD, is the Editorial Board's legal historian. She lives with her gorgeous dog, Tchotchke. You can find her @queenmab87.
Critics of affirmative action want you to believe that laws meant to protect Black people weren’t meant to protect Black people.
We’ve been here before. It was bad then. It’s bad now.
A death row man ate his own eye. Justices said whatevs.
The racist consequences of the “war on drugs” are still with us.
There is nothing fun about zombie laws.
How far are the rightwing justices willing to go?
They could just ignore Biden’s claim, but don’t.
Republicans are fighting it in court.
It’s just too perfect considering that Trump said in 2016 that, “if you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Is the Justice Department re-embracing its original mandate?