by Michael Avery

If you want to know what it will be like having five Justices on the Supreme Court who are Federalist Society members, read the Court’s April 1 decision in Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S.Ct. 1112. The five conservative Justices, in an opinion by the Trump ...

by Michael Avery

Protests by tens of thousands of Americans, black and white, have urged us to remember that Black Lives Matter. The movement is an outgrowth of concern over the epidemic of police violence against black people. But the issue of whether black lives matter as much as white ...

by Michael Avery

A great deal has changed since I started bringing civil rights suits against the police almost 50 years ago. Some things are for the better, others for the worse. Unfortunately, there’s also much that hasn’t changed. The cops are still beating people up, making false arrests, lying ...