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The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C. The Judiciary Accountability Act would empower judiciary employees to sue federal judges under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As it stands, all federal judicial branch employees are currently excluded. (Wikimedia Commons / AgnosticPreachersKid)

BY ALIZA SHATZMAN | The way judges treat their clerks—especially when no one is watching—speaks to who they really are. But when they mistreat their clerks, life-tenured federal judges rarely face accountability. I would know: The D.C. Superior Court judge for whom I clerked began harassing me just weeks into my clerkship.

The Judiciary Accountability Act would raise the bar for workplace civility.

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BY TARA JAMALI | Mona Heydari was forced to marry her cousin as a 12-year-old and birthed his child at 14. At 17, after fleeing the country and attempting to escape the abusive marriage, her life was ended by her husband.

Honor killings involving young women in Iran have become an all too common occurrence over the last two years, with a long list of victims. The lasting oppressive patriarchal and misogynistic ideologies prominent in law enforcement, government and Iranian society has allowed the killing of young women to become a crime without punishment.

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BY SHEFALI LUTHRA | As statehouses across the country rush to pass new abortion restrictions ahead of a consequential Supreme Court ruling this summer, Oklahoma lawmakers are trying to restrict abortion access by any and all means necessary. 

“Oklahoma is passing every type of abortion ban to give themselves the largest chance possible for one of them to go into effect. They may be essentially hedging their bets,” said Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state policy for the Guttmacher Institute. 

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