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Minority Report: Judge like me

Lincoln Son Currie January 27, 2021
President Joe Biden has the opportunity to improve representation in the federal judiciary, and he needs to use his power to nominate more Asian American judges.
Meredith Varner

American Protest: America, please do not jeopardize our reproductive rights

Meredith Varner September 27, 2020
Now that President Donald Trump has nominated conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Court has the potential to be as conservative as it last was in the 1930s.  
EDITORIAL: Bostonians can’t be impartial in trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

EDITORIAL: Bostonians can’t be impartial in trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Editors November 28, 2018

Several of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s relatives testified to provide grounds to demand an immediate retrial in another location, following his initial trial in 2015 at the John Joseph...

In response to the City of Boston denying the Globe documents, the state supervisor of records ruled that Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration must make federal subpoenas public in the future. PHOTO BY ABIGAIL FREEMAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Mayor Walsh’s office ordered to present federal subpoenas

Dave Sebastian April 28, 2016

After Boston Globe reporter Andrew Ryan was denied access to federal subpoenas by the City of Boston, Shawn Williams, Massachusetts supervisor of records, ordered Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to acknowledge...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts said Monday it will continue to defend limits on re-detaining immigrants. PHOTO COURTESY OF LUIGI CATERINO VIA FLICKR

ACLU battles laws re-detain, imprison immigrants

Christy Osler April 10, 2015

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts will continue to defend limits on re-detaining immigrants already released from prison, according to a Monday press release. A hearing to defend these...

Tenenbaum appeal rejected at U.S. Court of Appeals

Daily Free Press Admin June 26, 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Tuesday that Joel Tenenbaum, a former Boston University graduate student being sued for illegally sharing music, must pay his fine in full despite...

Protesters to challenge BU biolab in court on Thursday

Daily Free Press Admin April 8, 2013

Protesters of the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are set to renew the fight against the biolab in court after the lab received state approval in March, according to...

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