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Morning Docket: 10.08.21

* Paul Kirgis, University of Montana’s School of Law’s former dean, quits post after multiple Title IX cases have been filed against the school. Would anyone else rather quit than dissuade sexual misconduct and the use of slurs? If so, please do. [ABA Journal]

* Donnie wants 4 former aides to keep insurrection info in the darko. Hopefully they’ll rebel against him. [Politico]

* Jan Wolfe hopes that recent ruling on Texas’s abortion ban will have a chilling effect on other states adopting similar rule of law work arounds. Take that, South Dakota. [Reuters]

* Slavery still profitable. What would it take to make prisons for justice instead of for profit? [WSJ]

* Today in good news: California made stealthing illegal! Three cheers for consent! HIP HIP! [NPR]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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