What Happened Today – September 10, 2026

Entrance to Berkeley Law at the University of California with Benjamin Cardozo's inscription on studying the precepts of justice carved above the doors

Benjamin Cardozo's words on the precepts of justice greeted students at UC Berkeley Law, where the Justice Department accused the school of favoring Black applicants, 51 of its 1,128 students. (Art Anderson, CC BY-SA 3.0)

It took the US Supreme Court to make Missouri count 305,000 of its own voters’ signatures. They filed a petition in December protesting a map that carved up a Democratic seat in Kansas City at Donald Trump’s urging. Missouri’s secretary of state sat on it for eight months, then rejected it on primary day. When … Read more

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