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Ethics

Ex-judge is suspended after secret recording by possible rival candidate revealed threat

Legal History

How the US influenced the creation of Nazi race laws under Hitler

Death Penalty

Lawyer for Black man on trial for murder referenced ‘justifiable lynching’ in trial note, petition says

Midyear Meeting

ABA resolves to ‘take a leadership role in opposing antisemitism’

Midyear Meeting

Supreme Court justices should follow binding code of ethics, ABA House says

Midyear Meeting

Confederate symbols should be removed from courthouses, ABA House says

Midyear Meeting

ABA supports right to travel for abortion services and other medical care

Midyear Meeting

Intersex children should be allowed informed consent on surgeries, ABA House says

Midyear Meeting

United Nations must adopt wildlife crime protocol to stop illegal trafficking, ABA House urges

Midyear Meeting

Change is good ‘and will carry us into the future,’ says ABA president-elect nominee Bill Bay

Midyear Meeting

Jack Rives touts cost-cutting progress in final House address as ABA executive director

Midyear Meeting

These 10 principles will advance gender equity in criminal legal profession, ABA House says

Midyear Meeting

In speech, Deborah Enix-Ross applauds ABA’s civic and civil engagement

Midyear Meeting

Admissions test requirement for ABA-accredited law schools will remain in place for now

Election Law

Now with a GOP majority, top state court votes to rehear 2 recently decided voting-rights cases

Midyear Meeting

ABA House adopts 3 guidelines to improve use of artificial intelligence

Constitutional Law

In Zoom convention, legal scholars of varied ideologies backed these 5 constitutional amendments

Judiciary

Florida judges can no longer get CLE credit for general ‘fairness and diversity’ courses, state supreme court says

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Legal jobs increase in January; 11th Circuit doesn’t rule out execution by firing squad

Second Amendment

5th Circuit looks to history and strikes down law banning gun possession by subjects of civil protective orders

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