Legal Progress

Legal Progress is the legal policy program at the Center for American Progress. No matter the issue—health care, immigration, marriage equality, offshore oil drilling, privacy, ethics—the judiciary will continue to play an increasingly important role in the lives of hardworking Americans as well as in the success of the progressive legislative agenda. Through legal and policy analysis, communications and public education and convening key stakeholders, Legal Progress is helping to push the American legal system in a more progressive direction and educate the public about the impact of the courts on issues they care most about.

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Big Business’s Bonanza Week in the Supreme Court Article
A flag adorned with corporate logos and fake money flies in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., October 2013. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Big Business’s Bonanza Week in the Supreme Court

The new 5-4 conservative majority is likely to rule against the legal rights of workers and consumers.

Devon Schmidt, Jake Faleschini

Trump’s Anti-Worker Judges Will Outlast His Administration Article
Thomas Farr is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his district court nomination in Washington, September 20, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s Anti-Worker Judges Will Outlast His Administration

As the Supreme Court takes aim at public sector unions, President Trump is nominating judges with a record of putting corporations over workers.

Billy Corriher

How Distorted Districts Lead to Distorted Laws Article
Lawmakers study a map of a proposed redistricting plan at the State House in Montgomery, Alabama, May 9, 2012. (AP/Dave Martin)

How Distorted Districts Lead to Distorted Laws

Legislators are less responsive to the will of the public due to gerrymandering.

Liz Kennedy, Billy Corriher

President Trump’s Rubber-Stamp Judiciary Article
Then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is greeted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 2017. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Trump’s Rubber-Stamp Judiciary

The president has a record number of judicial vacancies to fill, and some of his picks come from the fringes of the right wing.

Zachary Winkler

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