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V’s Legalese: Judiciary Antebellum

Federal courts have made a lot of news lately. Most of it is not good. We ask a lot of our courts, but life was better when America did not know the names of federal district judges like Jeb Boasberg, Tanya Chutkan, Juan Merchan, Amir Ali, Amy Berman Jackson, and so many others.  The present […]