Non-Sequiturs: 01.28.15

* SWAT team called in to break up a poker game between a bunch of rich people. The militarization of the police seems like it's going great. [Washington Post] * The SPLC is lodging an ethics complaint against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore after he explained that he intends to defy federal law. He's such a delight. [WAAY TV] * Rutgers-Camden's student evaluation controversy unfortunately fits right into the grand scheme of legal industry misogyny. [Salon] * South Carolina has finally vacated the convictions of the Friendship Nine -- protesters busted for sitting at the diner counter who pioneered the "jail, no bail" strategy that dominated the 60s civil rights movement. It only took 54 years. [Huffington Post] * Another day, another embarrassing development for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell. This time it's former Senator Ben Nelson who Obamacare challengers cite for their claim that the Senate never intended subsidies to go to states without their own exchanges. Well, Senator Nelson wrote his own brief blowing this theory out of the water. This is basically SCOTUS's version of the Marshall McLuhan scene. [Washington Post] * A list of upcoming books about the Supreme Court. [SCOTUSBlog] * An enterprising law office discovered that the courts in Oklahoma publish social security numbers all the time. [Wirth Law Office] * D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett talks clerking diversity. [National Law Journal] * UC Hastings Law student Hali Ford is competing on the 30th season of Survivor. Her interview video is below. [TV Grapevine] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ydBekmEOw

* SWAT team called in to break up a poker game between a bunch of rich people. The militarization of the police seems like it’s going great. [Washington Post]

* The SPLC is lodging an ethics complaint against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore after he explained that he intends to defy federal law. He’s such a delight. [WAAY TV]

* Rutgers-Camden’s student evaluation controversy unfortunately fits right into the grand scheme of legal industry misogyny. [Salon]

* South Carolina has finally vacated the convictions of the Friendship Nine — protesters busted for sitting at the diner counter who pioneered the “jail, no bail” strategy that dominated the 60s civil rights movement. It only took 54 years. [Huffington Post]

* Another day, another embarrassing development for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell. This time it’s former Senator Ben Nelson who Obamacare challengers cite for their claim that the Senate never intended subsidies to go to states without their own exchanges. Well, Senator Nelson wrote his own letter blowing this theory out of the water. This is basically SCOTUS’s version of the Marshall McLuhan scene. [Washington Post]

* A list of upcoming books about the Supreme Court. [SCOTUSBlog]

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* An enterprising law office discovered that the courts in Oklahoma publish social security numbers all the time. [Wirth Law Office]

* D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett talks clerking diversity. [National Law Journal]

* UC Hastings Law student Hali Ford is competing on the 30th season of Survivor. Her interview video is below. [TV Grapevine]

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