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Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism. Click to read Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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The Week Ahead - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (429+ words) Here are some of the top legal stories we’ll be watching for this week: The Boston Cases Challenging Trump’s EO on Mail Voting Judge Talwani’s preliminary injunction was modest in scope, addressing only the midterm elections and not precluding states…...

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Catching up on Three Important Cases from this Week: Meta, Paramount/Warner Bros., and the challenge to Trump’s EO on mail voting

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (245+ words) Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Catching up on Three Important Cases from this Week: Meta, Paramount/Warner Bros., and the challenge to Trump’s EO on mail voting The landmark settlement state attorneys general reached with Meta to take steps to…...

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Kash Patel’s Response

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (810+ words) Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance The Atlantic wants the Judge to dismiss Patel’s defamation case; Patel argues it’s too soon for that. Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that characterized…...

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E. Jean Carroll, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Power of Being Believed

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (579+ words) It was a real Roy Cohn move. Cohn was the lawyer who gave Trump the advice he continues to adhere to. Cohn, who was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lawyer during the “red scare” communist blacklist era of the 1950s, told Trump, in…...