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The John R. Lewis Act, a comprehensive piece of federal voting rights legislation, was struck down on the Senate floor the night of Jan. 19.

UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute hosted a panel discussion on the fight for reproductive justice Thursday, with panelists focusing on the role of white supremacy in anti-abortion activism and the need to center marginalized people in abortion-rights activism. 

There is simply an obscene amount of information that must be digested and regurgitated for exams, and I always feel like a part of me is cramming, no matter how much lead time I give myself.

Texas’ law allows private citizens to sue anyone involved in obtaining an abortion after the six-week window before fetal cardiac activity begins.

By preventing limitations on scholarships, the ruling opens the door for further legal challenges to the NCAA’s control of collegiate athletes.

The U.S. Department of Education and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, announced their respective affirmations of Title IX.

Samuelson, who is a Richard M. Sherman distinguished professor of law, and Glushko recently made another endowment to Berkeley Law: a $1 million gift to create a clinical chair for the Samuelson Clinic. The Robert Glushko Clinical Professor of Practice in Technology Law will be the first chair created for a campus clinical professor, Glushko added.

UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers found that four out of the five top “abortion pill” query results on Google were less than 50% accurate.

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52-48 to the United States Supreme Court Monday, becoming the fifth conservative justice on the Court. 

The only reason we haven’t come to a collective solution is that those who create our legislative solutions benefit from gerrymandering.