• a portrait of C.J. Rice outdoors
    Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic

    Finally, Justice

    Two years ago, I wrote an Atlantic cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man.

  • The justices of the Supreme Court
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: J. Scott Applewhite / AP.

    Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now

    If she leaves the Court this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her.

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