1st Amendment

* Long Arms: California’s laws on protecting abortion info will likely have spillover effects across the us. [Axios]

* Indiana judge blocked a law requiring post-abortion cremation and burial of fetal tissue. [Indy Star]

* Teacher’s virulently racist comments that could make Amy Wax blush faces consequences. I wonder how long it’ll be until she’s on the Tucker Carlson show? [Imgur]

* Need damages for your damaged Cannondale? Here’s a primer. [Forbes]

* Bleak views out the Overton window: Politicians are about 2 steps from being openly hostile toward non-Christians. [Business Insider]

* 1st Amendment; mum’s the word: more Nazis waving SS flags in support of Republicans as candidates talk about freedom. [Huff Po]

* Put your money where your politics are: Here’s an updated list of companies addressing abortion access. [NPR]

* Shoot, a copycat!: California passes the snitch on pregnant people and get 10k law, but for guns. [NYT]

* Remember that time about 200 Republicans voted against sus-ing out white supremacists in police departments? Maybe they were trying to protect Mississippi. [CNN]

* Hopefully, Texas’s “Big Companies Don’t Need Freedom Of Speech” law will go to the Supreme Court. [The Hill]

* Gov. Murphy wants officers to be licensed to protect. [Bronx News]

* The Due Process clause was invoked to suspend a law that would make abortions illegal if an opinion like Dobbs overrules Roe. [MSNBC]

* Biden bumps baby bumpers to save sleeping babes. Say that 5 times fast. [NPR]

* You’re not the only one checking your emails. Hopefully, other states will make it so your job has to tell you when they snoop around. [INC]

* Gov. DeSantis doesn’t want protestors being big meanies outside of people’s homes. Remember: You only have the right to protest if it doesn’t like…inconvenience anyone. [AP]

* In Texas, the right to free speech includes broadcasting murderous rampage. Yup, progress is totally linear. [Invenglobal]

* Law firms like to see their employees faces so much, they’re threatening to cut salaries for working from home. [Law.com]

* Oregon’s failure to provide public defenders has landed them in court. [AP]

* Have you been considering Cuba? Might be a little easier to visit now. [Miami Herald]

* I know that Nietzsche had some thoughts on the utility of truth and lies, but actively fighting history is just silly. [NBC News]

* No, Patrick, you cannot puff, puff, drive. [Oregon Live]

* Sports betting was legalized in Kansas. Finally, something to do for fun besides eat barbecue. [Kansas Reflector]

* Ding Dong Protest: Wonder who was behind the SCOTUS home meet and greets? [USA Today]

* The Louisiana bill that tried to classify abortions as homicides didn’t make it into law. Woop Woop! [Reuters]

* Goodbye: ABA recommends dropping the LSAT as an admissions requirement. But how will we know who is the next Learned Hand? [NYT]

* Who cares about the 1st when you have a gun? Trump asked if it was okay to “Just shoot protestors” he didn’t like while he was in office. [NPR]

* Law school speed run sub 20: South Texas College of Law has just minted its youngest JD. Maybe they finally have the time to watch a few Elden Ring playthroughs. [KHOU]

* About 60% of Americans think that abortion should be legal federally. That’s larger than the percentage of people that approve of the SCOTUS. I wonder if they are related concepts? [The Hill]

* Senate will vote on if Roe ought be codified into law on Wednesday. Time to see where our leader’s allegiances lie. [Reuters]

* Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent]

* Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU]

* Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News]

* …And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger]

* Three’s Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]

* Texan student who was threatened with being given a failing grade for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance earns a lot of lunch money. Gotta love the 1st Amendment. [Chron]

* Facebook and Apple were so deferential to cops that they gave sensitive information to kids pretending to be them. What happened to two-factor authentication? [Dudes Code]

* Loan company hit with a million-dollar fine for misleading its clients about loan forgiveness. Stop playing with people’s money! [Business Insider]

* Pentagon drops a 700+ list of places named after members of the Confederacy they’re considering renaming. About time we stopped handing out participation trophies to the pro-slavery people. [Military]

* Tennessee is trying to overturn Obergefell. See what you’ve started now, Texas? [LBGTQNation]