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Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza

Attorney · Journalist · Strategist

I cover the courts, civil rights, and democracy, and I’ve taken the fight to court myself.

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NPR

CNN

The Atlantic

The Nation

Slate

USA Today

Ms.

Yale Law Journal

The Paris Review

Selected Work

Slate

Elon Musk’s Supreme Court Endgame in Defamation Lawsuit

Daily Kos

Sessions kills DOJ’s access to justice initiative in another blow to low-income Americans

Daily Kos

Jeff Sessions’ parting blow ensures DOJ can’t curtail local and state civil rights violations

Pacific Standard

Trump and DeVos Are Preparing a Historic Rollback on Discrimination Law

Daily Kos

The real reason DOJ’s threatening to take its cases straight to the Supreme Court

Rewire

Trump Administration’s Claims of DACA Being Unconstitutional Have No Substance

Law, journalism, and advocacy on the courts, civil rights, and democracy.

Reporting and legal analysis on the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and civil rights.

Reports, op-eds, and commentary making the case for fair courts, voting rights, and equality.

Television, radio, podcast, and conference appearances on the courts, civil rights, and democracy.

Highlights

Knight Institute v. Trump

Sued the President over free speech and won: a 2018 ruling protecting the public’s right to engage with officials online.

Legal journalism

Supreme Court coverage for NPR alongside Nina Totenberg, plus analysis for CNN, The Atlantic, and Slate.

Policy and advocacy

Reports and commentary with the Center for American Progress, Ms. Magazine, and Alliance for Justice.

Let’s work together

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