Bail Reform

* Contract waiver… it’s the real thing. [Corporate Counsel]

* Vivek Ramaswamy continues to run for president for some unknown reason and just released his Supreme Court shortlist focused on the most unqualified and tantrum prone judges on the Federalist Society bench. Demeaning the bench is now a feature and not a bug. [Washington Post]

* Illinois Supreme Court upholds bail reform, rejecting bizarre argument that “only allowing rich defendants out of jail” was a constitutional issue. [CNN]

* Accomplished public interest lawyer confirmed to the Sixth Circuit. It used to be all it took to get on the Sixth Circuit was an anti-gay blogging profile. [Reuters]

* Judge Pauline Newman appeared on a podcast to discuss the efforts to sideline her. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Ben Crump enters the Northwestern football hazing scandal to represent a number of the players. The more you dig into this case the more you realize why this football team wanted to unionize so badly. [USA Today]

* Beware the legally binding emoji. [Legaltech News]

* Idaho planning to criminalize interstate travel to procure legal services in another state. If only the Constitution said something about states fully and faithfully crediting the laws of other states. [Huffington Post]

* Most firms aren’t worried about taking a profit hit last year. Which probably should make everyone a little more leery of the firms rushing to layoffs. [American Lawyer]

* Madison Square Garden’s ludicrous policy banning all attorneys adverse to the venue — and any entity with a tangential relationship to the venue — is still illegal as to non-sports events, but the appellate court lifted the injunction, deciding that banned lawyers can only recover monetary damages. So we’re most likely going to expand the population of adverse lawyers soon. [Law360]

* Tougher rules announced for Supreme Court justices and other federal judges getting free junkets. Or, in more practical terms, “tougher rules announced for other federal judges” because the Supreme Court has shown exactly zero interest in being bound by rules. [Reuters]

* The DoNotPay kerfuffle risks undermining other access to justice initiatives. As we’ve said in the past, these systems don’t have to be as good as a lawyer when limited to roles lawyers aren’t taking. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Over 100 law professors urge New York not to mess with bail reform laws. While propaganda outlets cast the law as though it prevents criminal sentencing to whip up public fear, the law professors remind lawmakers that this isn’t how any of this works. [AMNY]

* 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]