Morning Docket: 09.19.22

* A picture is worth a thousand disbarrings: Kentucky prosecutor who would do legal favors for nude pictures is suspended. [Courier Journal] * We really should have nipped that Facebook cancelled my free speech line of argument in the bud a few years ago. Just look at Texas! [Texas Tribune] * A teenager who was punished with life in prison at fifteen is now starting law school a decade later. Talk about a hell of a personal statement! [Market Watch] * Illinois is planning to abolish a poor people's tax and people want you to think that it is Armageddon. It really isn't. You should be more concerned over if your prosecutor is jailing people for not getting dem nudes. [Yahoo!] * This is an A and B conversation. And C. And D. And E. And... [Protocol]

Hidden Camera* A picture is worth a thousand disbarrings: Kentucky prosecutor who would do legal favors for nude pictures is suspended. [Courier Journal]

* We really should have nipped that Facebook cancelled my free speech line of argument in the bud a few years ago. Just look at Texas! [Texas Tribune]

* A teenager who was punished with life in prison at fifteen is now starting law school a decade later. Talk about a hell of a personal statement! [Market Watch]

* Illinois is planning to abolish a poor people’s tax and people want you to think that it is Armageddon. It really isn’t. You should be more concerned over if your prosecutor is jailing people for not getting dem nudes. [Yahoo!]

* This is an A and B conversation. And C. And D. And E. And… [Protocol]


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.  He endured 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 cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.