Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.13.22

* Virginia cops got caught using forged DNA reports to extract confessions. Due process, schmue process. [Associated Press] * The FTC gets the go-ahead to try and force Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp. Love me some antitrust! [The Guardian] * A court heavily influenced by big money with no binding code of judicial conduct (read: the Supreme one) will be giving their say on money's role on politics. I'm sure their decision won't be a blank check for oligarchs. [Esquire] * Turns out there was a bit of electoral voter fraud in Nevada. But what's a little forgery and disruption of democracy between friends, really? [8NewsNow] * Students are boycotting firms based on the causes they get their money from. Will you put your heart where your billables are too? [The Nation] * No WWJD defense: Court nixes religious exemption to vaccine mandate for school kids. [Courant]

DNA Scissor* Virginia cops got caught using forged DNA reports to extract confessions. Due process, schmue process. [Associated Press]

* The FTC gets the go-ahead to try and force Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp. Love me some antitrust! [The Guardian]

* A court heavily influenced by big money with no binding code of judicial conduct (read: the Supreme one) will be giving their say on money’s role on politics. I’m sure their decision won’t be a blank check for oligarchs. [Esquire]

* Turns out there was a bit of electoral voter fraud in Nevada. But what’s a little forgery and disruption of democracy between friends, really? [8NewsNow]

* Students are boycotting firms based on the causes they get their money from. Will you put your heart where your billables are too? [The Nation]

* No WWJD defense: Court nixes religious exemption to vaccine mandate for school kids. [Courant]


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