Joyce Vance
MS NOW Columnist
Joyce White Vance is an MS NOW columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama.
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What Trump’s agriculture secretary misunderstands about backyard chickens
My family loves our hens. But raising them isn’t easy — or saving us much money.
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JD Vance knows better than to challenge judicial review
The political consequences of these misplaced legal arguments have to be taken seriously. But the legal arguments underpinning them are shamefully unserious.
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Trump wants to erase his guilty verdict. Judge Merchan has a plan to stop him.
Judge Juan Merchan understands that jury verdicts matter. And in this case, the verdict matters more than the sentence.
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What should happen to Jack Smith’s classified documents report
There should be, at minimum, a permanent public record of the special counsel’s evidence.
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Michelle Obama just rejected everything the GOP’s ‘Tampon Tim’ insult represents
Obama’s powerful speech over the weekend connected the dots from periods to pregnancy to post-menopause.
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Why extreme weather won’t disrupt the 2024 election
Recent hurricanes have sown chaos across the South, but thankfully we have plenty of safeguards to protect the right to vote after a natural disaster.
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Here’s a message for JD Vance from two ‘postmenopausal’ women
Instead of being mocked or dismissed as a group of faceless caregivers, women like us deserve society’s respect. And that starts by making our health a policy priority.
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The revealing courage of Donald Trump’s hush money trial jury
We’ve already witnessed the sort of tense courtroom scenes you might expect in a mafia trial. But this is not a mafia trial — or at least, it’s not supposed to be.
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What the legal system owes America in the era of Donald Trump
There are times that call for decision-making with deliberate speed. We are living in them.
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The Fulton County question that should keep Trump up at night
Sidney Powell is the second Trump co-defendant to take a plea deal. She may not be the last.