“Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered: Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.” Linda Greenhouse has this review of Martin J. Siegel‘s new book, “Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs,” in the June 22, 2023 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Two Black Members of Native Tribes Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian. A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack ‘Indian blood.'” Chris Cameron and Mark Walker of The New York Times have this report.