Supreme Court Hears Wal-Mart Case
For the past 11 years, 1.5 million women have been taking on the world’s largest corporation, Wal-Mart, for what they claim is a corporate practice of gender discrimination. The case would be the...
View ArticleGender and the Supreme Court's Wal-Mart Case
The arguments being heard by the Supreme Court today in Dukes vs. Wal-Mart are about whether there is enough of a connection between 1.5 million workers to validate their discrimination as a...
View ArticlePresident Obama Pushes to Diversify Judiciary
In the past several months, President Obama has been making a quiet push to change the face of the nation's judicial system through a slow and steady stream of diverse nominees for federal courts. In...
View ArticleSkewed Justice: Report Shows Campaign Ads Sway Judicial Decisions
At least one important issue hasn't been getting a lot of air time this election season: The impact of Citizens United on state courts."The Constitution tells our judges [that they're] supposed to...
View ArticleWeb of Scandal: Inside the Tangled Tale of Kathleen Kane
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Kathleen Kane was a rising star in the Pennsylvania judicial system. When she was voted in as attorney general in 2012, she became the first woman...
View ArticleReading the Constitution's Text Alone Isn't Enough
With a nod to the Tea Party, Republicans newly in charge of House of Representatives will read the U.S. Constitution aloud today, in its entirety. This is something that has never been done in the...
View ArticleIs There a Good Way to Hire a Judge?
For millions of Americans, finding a job is complicated enough without having to win over thousands of voters, raise millions of dollars, or be cherry picked by a special commission just to reach the...
View ArticlePanel Votes To Raise Pay For State Judges
A state panel charged with setting new salaries for New York state judges has decided to raise their pay by 27 percent over the next three years.State supreme court judges will start making $160,000 in...
View ArticleBackstory: The Increasing Influence of Money in Judicial Elections
In the last decade, spending on campaigns for state Supreme Court positions has more than doubled. On today’s second Backstory, Adam Skaggs, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses...
View ArticleJudicial Activism 2012
Anup Malani, professor of law and health law at the University of Chicago, discusses the line between the courts and the administration -- from President Obama applying pressure on the Supreme Court to...
View ArticleWhen the Fine Print Robs You of Your Constitutional Rights
New York Times reporter Jessica Silver-Greenberg discusses her three-part series, "Beware the Fine Print," which examines how clauses buried in tens of millions of contracts have deprived many...
View ArticleThe Unbalanced Power of Expert Witnesses
Expert witnesses are a staple of televised court cases, both in real life and on Hollywood sets. Yet few people understand their role and motivations in real cases, and the influence of their...
View ArticleJudith Kaye, Longtime Leader of New York's Top Court, Dies at 77
Click the audio above to hear WNYC’s Jami Floyd talk with Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman about Kaye's legacy. Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the first woman appointed to New York's top court, has died....
View ArticlePEN America’s Breakout: Voices From the Inside
Celebrate the award-winning work of men and women incarcerated in detention facilities across the country.The evening will feature actors and writers reading submissions from PEN America's annual...
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