For a bill to become a law, it must go through the Senate (so says the Constitution and School House Rock). But today, a man who calls himself “The Grim Reaper” has made it his life's work to ensure that not a single piece of…
Sixty years ago, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applied to be a Supreme Court clerk. She'd studied at two of our finest law schools and had ringing recommendations. But because she was a woman, she was rejected. Ten years later, she sent her first brief to…
The New York Times
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Glenn Thrush
– Sep 18, 7:42 PM
If Mark Kelly, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Arizona, unseats Senator Martha McSally, a Republican who was appointed to her seat and began serving last year, he could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30 — possibly in time to vote on a new…
Los Angeles Times
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Lucas Kwan Peterson
– Sep 19, 6:00 AM
In 1921, when the world had just barely recovered from a pandemic, Fred Cook and his wife, Lovey, opened a restaurant inside a replica dining car on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles. Nearly 100 years later, a different pandemic has claimed it.
The New York Times
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
– Oct 1, 2016, 11:30 AM
“Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court justice?” Schoolchildren visiting me at the court, as they do at least weekly, ask that question more than any other. It is a sign of huge…
