* The first action under Tennessee’s anti-CRT law is accusing MLK of being un-American. Who would have dreamed of this? [Insider]
* A clean conscience: Law that protects donors from civil and criminal liability finds it easier to donate female sanitary products. [AP News]
* Yale student who claims they were blackballed ends up getting the prestigious scholarship anyway. [Yale Daily News]
* For a lot of people, the current push against abortion rights doesn’t make sense. Here’s a look for how forcing birth will impact Mississippians trying to make cents. [NYT]
* A thinner blue line: A new North Carolina law makes it so that police have to report their co-workers within 3 days if they see them using excessive force. Sounds like this should have been a duh rule, but I’m glad it’s a law now. [WITN]
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.