* Yesterday's elementary school mass shooting has the president and others pushing for gun law reform. [VOA News]
* If the senseless deaths of children isn't enough to spur gun reform, maybe these tweets from Khloe Kardashian will. [Yahoo!]
* Should last week's mass murderer be charged under the anti-lynching law it took Congress 120 years to pass? Survey says yes. [Bloomberg Law]
* No Civil War protections for 2021 insurrectionists. Boo hoo. [CNN]
* A rose by any other name requires six months of residency. [WSPA]
* A lawyer is demanding to know whether the FBI has uncovered $400 million of gold from the Civil War. Sounds like a sequel to National Treasure... [New York Post]
* The New York Attorney General alleges that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo underreported nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in New York. [CNBC]
* PACER apparently crashed yesterday because so many people were looking at class-action filings against Robinhood involving GameStop stock. [Law & Crime]
* President Biden has started staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform. [Politico]
* Facebook is allegedly preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. At least Google isn't the target of antitrust action for a change... [Yahoo News]
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* When New York's largest personal injury firm collapses, who gets access to (800) 888-8888? [New York Personal Injury Blog]
* This is what it's like when the President Tweets you. [Bloomberg BNA]
* The Indy 500 -- the latest way to delay a deposition. [The Washington Post]
* Cardozo Law gets in on current events. [Law and More]
* Well this is, allegedly, awful. [Jezebel]
* The Civil War lives on at Virginia courthouses. [Katz Justice]
* Hmmm, where is Jeff Sessions in the whole Comey mess? [Slate]
* Aw, come on, Mort, Dewey really have to pay you $61M? In case you missed it last night, the only thing that made the former vice chairman’s departure memo dramatic was the insane amount that he claims he’s owed. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Congratulations to Jacqueline H. Nguyen on her confirmation to the Ninth Circuit. She’s the first Asian American woman to sit on a federal appellate court, so she’s earned our judicial diva title (in a good way). You go girl! [Los Angeles Times]
* Google might’ve infringed upon Oracle’s copyrights, but a jury couldn’t decide if it constituted fair use. Sorry, Judge Alsup, but with that kind of a decision, you can bet your ass that there’ll be an appeal. [New York Times]
* A Harvard Law professor has come to Elizabeth Warren’s defense, claiming that an alleged affirmative action advantage played no role in her hiring. And besides, even if it did, it only played 1/32 of a role. [Boston Herald]
* Classes at Cooley Law’s Tampa Bay campus began last night. Unsurprisingly, the inaugural class is double the size originally projected, because everyone wants to attend second-best school in the nation. [MLive.com]
* Albany Law will be having a three-day conference on the legal implications of the Civil War. This could be a little more exciting if presenters wore reenactment garb and did battle when it was over. [National Law Journal]
* Jury selection is underway in a second degree murder trial that will forever be known as the case where a defendant first raised the “Snooki Defense.” He didn’t kill his wife… but her spray tan did. [CBS Miami]
