“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree
Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.
Justice
A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed.
If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened.
Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University
The smears spurred Austrian police to raid Islamophobia scholar Farid Hafez’s family home. Then the terrorism charges fell apart.
The End of Roe
Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens
The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.
Voices
Pro-Lifers Are Up Against a Real-Life Crisis
The IVF vs. embryonic personhood fracas forces Republicans to face the living people harmed by their defense of cellular rights.
NYC Jails Flagrantly Deny Young People’s Legal Right to Education
New court filings say that the city is violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education for people under 22.
“Crime Has Been a Euphemism for Race”: Alameda County’s Reform DA Rejects Recall Narrative
Bankrolled by real estate investors, a multimillion-dollar recall effort against Pamela Price launched just six months after she took office.
Voices
How the Right Is Taking Over State Courts With Judicial Gerrymandering
On issues from abortion rights to criminal justice reforms, the war on democracy is opening new fronts on the state level.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses
Some schools are acting on the misbegotten notion that Palestinian freedom is a threat to Jewish safety.
The End of Roe
Anti-Abortion Doctors Struggle to Explain Mifepristone Harms Before Supreme Court
The justices didn’t seem to buy the tenuous theory that would allow the doctors to sue the FDA over medication abortion.