Chicago. Public defender for 12 years. The system isn't blind. I know what it looks at.
Chicago. Public defender for 12 years. The system isn't blind. I know what it looks at.
Jun 24, 2026
The UK is in the middle of the most sweeping rewrite of its electoral law in half a century. Critics say 16-year-olds are too young to vote. I say that argument is tired, lazy, and legally incoherent.
Jun 15, 2026
A Boston federal judge just killed one of the most brazen executive power grabs in recent memory. The Trump administration tried to slap a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas and call it a "penalty." The courts are not buying it.
Jun 15, 2026
A toy company from Chicago just did what Congress refused to do. The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that Trump had no legal authority to impose his sweeping tariffs. This is what checks and balances actually look like.
Jun 15, 2026
The Supreme Court just gutted the last real weapon Black voters had against gerrymandering. They called it race-neutrality. I call it a slow-motion erasure of the Civil Rights Movement.
May 27, 2026
The Constitution guarantees every American a jury trial. So why do 97 percent of criminal cases never see one? The answer is uncomfortable, and it should make you angry.
May 13, 2026
More than three million Virginians voted to redraw their congressional map. A 4-3 court ruling erased every one of those votes. Now Democrats are taking the fight all the way to Washington.
May 12, 2026
The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act. But the backlash is already building in ways the six conservative justices did not plan for. Here is what the resistance actually looks like.
May 5, 2026
On April 29, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential civil rights rulings in a generation. Within 72 hours, a governor cancelled a federal election already underway. The resistance is already in court.
May 2, 2026
The headlines call it a good news story. Workers winning contracts, wages going up, unions on the rise. But nobody is asking what it actually cost to get here. The good news is real. The framing is a lie.
May 1, 2026
From April 2026, the UK government halved disability top-ups for new Universal Credit claimants. The outrage is loud. But the economics underneath this decision are harder to dismiss than the protesters want to admit.
Apr 30, 2026
Yesterday the Supreme Court's conservative majority gutted the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling and called it constitutional. Black voters in Louisiana just lost their second majority-Black congressional district, and the rest of the country is next.
Apr 28, 2026
More than 90 percent of criminal convictions in America never see a jury. They are settled in back rooms, under pressure, with a prosecutor holding all the cards. Call it what it is.