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A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Is There a Human Interest Story?

Donna Brazile: Journalists should not get caught up in the human interest story. She says lawyers for one side are really good at framing unsympathetic litigants as sweetest, kindest people you'll ever meet who are just being crushed by the government. Brazile: Kagan is making an important and correct claim that on this court, the distinction between politics and law is vanishingly thin.

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