By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist Cyberlaw
After the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Con...
By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
When I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created ...
COURT RULES HINDU NOT A ‘WHITE PERSON’; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.
–NY Times, February 20, 1923
Photograph of Bhagat Singh Thind in his U.S. Army Uniform, from 1918. Thind enlisted in the U.S. Army, and trained at Camp Lewis, Washington...
By Samantha Barbas, author of Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan
Sarah Palin’s loss in her well-publicized libel suit against the New York Times in February 2022 could result in a decision affecting the most significant First Amendment ru...
By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is ...