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It’s an election year — which is already pretty rough going — and then in February, Justice Antonin Scalia died. And in a split second, there was a rare opening on the US Supreme Court….

The Hold Up

by Ashley Cleek

May 3, 2016

“The court has to appear normal to the outside world. Even though things are really abnormal inside, it’s my job to keep a sense of normalcy and not to draw attention to the court.” –Chief…

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The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

Rig the System – Part 2: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Jonathan Hirsch

April 19, 2016

“I never felt more like a hooker at a bus station than when I ran for the Ohio State Supreme Court.” — Paul Pfeifer, Associate Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court For many people living…

Live Law Nashville – Blood Sweat and Tears

by Nancy Mullane

April 5, 2016

“The deal is what the deal is. Take it or leave it.” Not all stories about the law fit snugly into one of our feature investigative reports. Some stories are best told live, in front…

BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation on Eugenics and the Law

by Nancy Mullane

March 28, 2016

Last week, we published STERILIZED, Reporter Jess Engebretson’s disturbing story of Rose Brooks and Lewis Reynolds, two of more than 60,000 men and women forcibly sterilized in the United States by doctors working in state…

Sterilized – Transcript

by Jess Engebretson

March 22, 2016

The law can be a tool for justice, and injustice. Starting in 1907, legislators in dozens of states passed laws that made it legal to forcibly sterilize people considered by some doctors and scientists to…

Sterilized

by Jess Engebretson

March 22, 2016

“If I could have had a family, I probably would have had two or three children. I think about that all the time. And sometimes I just cry because the people done me wrong. I…

Revolution in a Cornfield – Part 1: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Ashley Cleek

March 8, 2016

Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “For me, there’s another decision…

Revolution in a Cornfield – Transcript

by Ashley Cleek

March 8, 2016

It’s probably been awhile since you were in first grade. But some things haven’t changed too much. AMBI MONTINI’S CLASS This is Mrs Montini’s class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas. Seventeen…