Anita Hill, a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of Brandeis’ Heller School for Social Policy and Management, became a national figure in ...

Her confirmation hearings showed an extraordinary contrast between Jackson’s worthiness and judicial temperament, and Republican senators’ tirades and temper tantrums.

Now that Justice Amy Coney Barrett has taken her seat, the ultraconservative court appears poised to curtail the Affordable Care Act and reproductive rights. The damage can be addressed with action at the local level.

As the administration continues to absorb legal blowback and fight cases in federal courts, Trump has quietly pushed ahead with his mission to remake the federal judiciary in his image: one that is very white, very Republican, and very male.