Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.04.22

* Teaching is fundamental: how teachers handle the return to in-person classes and the implementation of anti-CRT legislation is gonna be groundbreaking. [AP] * A civil rights lawyer from the Loving case thinks the case is still relevant to... a death penalty case? See if you follow the logic. [Bloomberg Law] * A change of scenery: Texan abortion providers want the district court to hear challenges to SB8 rather than the appeals court. I hope it goes well. [The Texas Tribune] * NY mayor has some hesitation about letting non-citizens vote in elections. This is probably gonna go to court. [City and State] * What is beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly? Legal ambiguity may have put a man on death row. Again. [NYT]

Back to School. Male teacher in a classroom standing near chalk board.* Teaching is fundamental: how teachers handle the return to in-person classes and the implementation of anti-CRT legislation is gonna be groundbreaking. [AP]

* A civil rights lawyer from the Loving case thinks the case is still relevant to… a death penalty case? See if you follow the logic. [Bloomberg Law]

* A change of scenery: Texan abortion providers want the district court to hear challenges to SB8 rather than the appeals court. I hope it goes well. [The Texas Tribune]

* NY mayor has some hesitation about letting non-citizens vote in elections. This is probably gonna go to court. [City and State]

* What is beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly? Legal ambiguity may have put a man on death row. Again. [NYT]


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