George Zimmerman's lawyer can keep blogging about the Trayvon Martin case.

Says the judge. During that hearing, [Zimmerman's lawyer Mark] O'Mara said his client had been the subject of a carefully orchestrat...

When Roe v. Wade came out, Justice Ginsburg believed the motivation behind it was fighting overpopulation.

Emily Bazelon gets clarification directly from the Justice about a remark she made in 2009 that seemed perhaps to favor abortion for popula...

"A federal court on Thursday rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to vote..."

"... in November's election, unanimously ruling that it imposes 'strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor,' who are often ra...

"Online petitions, protests, and statements by African American and civil rights leaders have all demanded Zimmerman be brought to justice."

But those who care about prejudice and stereotypes are hypocrites if they don't pay attention to all the facts .

"The book is helping white folks who otherwise would have simply dismissed that idea understand why so many people believe it."

The idea is that the war on drugs is "a system of racial control comparable to slavery and Jim Crow." ( Here 's the book.)

The word "law" only appears once on the NYT list of "100 Notable Books of 2011."

Maybe the New York Times is missing some great law books , but this is some kind of read on something that ought to matter to legal academic...

Goodbye to Derrick Bell.

The eminent law professor has died. He was a pioneer of critical race theory — a body of legal scholarship that explored how racism is embed...

If white victims are chosen because they are "easy targets," is that a "hate crime"?

From a report on the Wisconsin State Fair crime spree: The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wiscon...

Why is Elie Mystal so annoyed at the Stanford lawprof who wrote a book called "Is Marriage for White People?"?

I'm reading this blog post over at Above the Law because Instapundit linked to it.  Instapundit did one of those ultra-sleek posts shor...

"By the time this thing would reach the Supreme Court Obama's going to have amnesty. He's s going to have all these brand-new Democrat voters."

Rush Limbaugh rails against the federal court decision preliminarily enjoining the Arizona immigration law: The judge is a Clinton appointee...

"Althouse ends up more or less agreeing with us, so of course we more or less agree with her."

Says James Taranto. He concludes: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, subject of the current national conversation about race, was necessary not ...

Did Obama's speechwriters write Calderon's speech?

That's what I thought when I heard this: In Arizona, there is some racial profiling criteria in order to enforce the law that it's a...

What Rand Paul really said about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Rand Paul is coming under attack for things he said about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed race discrimination in privately own...

Black firefighters move to intervene in the Ricci v. DeStefano.

You may remember Ricci as the Supreme Court case won by white firefighters who lost out when New Haven canceled the results of a test that ...