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Justice & Law
Courts, constitutional rights, investigations, remedies and legal accountability. These editorials examine what the law promises, how those promises are interpreted, who receives protection, and what happens when justice fails.
The Robe Doesn’t Erase What the Judge Knows
A judge’s recorded prejudice raises a question retirement alone cannot answer: What happened in the cases she already decided?
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When courts do not provide a remedy, what authority remains with legislatures, governments, institutions and the public to acknowledge harm and pursue repair?
Read EditorialNigger: The Word, the Law and the Line We Draw
Society recognizes the harm carried by explicit racial language. What happens when racial hierarchy operates through institutions, rules and decisions without using the word itself?
Read EditorialThe Violence Behind the Reconstruction Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments were written against a backdrop of racial violence, political terror and organized resistance to Black citizenship. That history matters when interpreting what those constitutional protections were designed to accomplish.
Read EditorialSupreme Law—Except When White Supremacy Refuses to Yield
Tulsa asks a larger constitutional question: what does supreme law mean when its guarantees exist on paper but the institutions responsible for enforcing them fail to provide an effective remedy?
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