LANSING, Mich. — During Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden’s first campaign, a critic told her she wasn’t Michelle Obama or Kamala Harris, “but you feel emboldened to run for this office.” She later named her first child Emerson, so it could be shortened to “Em Bolden.” The word has driven her ever since. Bolden, now 36, won that …
The 2024 election marked a painful setback for Democratic hopes of rebalancing the federal judiciary: When Donald Trump reenters the White House in January, he will have a pliant Republican Senate majority eager to confirm his hard-right judges. But federal courts don’t tell the whole story: Across the country, voters also elected liberal justices to their state Supreme Courts, which …
Buffalo, New York, police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. Andrew Harnik via Associated Press Three Black employees at the police department of Buffalo, New York, have accused a police captain of going on a racist rant about Black male officers, according …
LANSING, Mich. — Kyra Harris Bolden will become the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court, Gov. Bolden “will be bringing a unique perspective that has too long been left out, not only as a Black woman but also as a new mom,” Whitmer said during a news conference at the Supreme Court. “This is the greatness …
