Gun Laws

* Six of Donald Trump’s co-conspirators go unnamed in the federal indictment against him for crimes related to the January 6th coup attempt. Five of them are attorneys. Let’s speculate on who they all are. [Washington Post]

* Former Attorney General/current Paul, Weiss attorney Loretta Lynch to investigate allegations of hazing on the Northwestern football team. [Law360]

* A look at the judge assigned to the Donald Trump January 6th case. [Huffington Post]

* The family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit over her stolen cells. [Law & Crime]

* If you can even believe it, America’s gun laws could get even more lax. [Vox]

* Banning shopping bags led to people just stealing the shopping baskets. I can’t even think of a witty line for this one. Gotta love Dirty Jersey. [USA Today]

* Donny Boy may have moved some classified documents. What is that illegal? Well…yes. [NPR]

* The directions to Times Square just took on a whole new level of legal importance. [NBC New York]

* Californian bill vindicates Nate Dogg’s life advice for us all. [The Hill]

* Californian law requires businesses to tell what they pay their workers. Maybe one day we can afford that stupid “How much do you expect to make working here?” question in interviews. [USA Today]

* Considering that performers get bottles thrown at their heads, I can see why they wouldn’t want to perform somewhere with guns. [NBC DFW]

* Whistleblowing has diminishing returns in Colorado [9 News]

* Kentucky wants to keep sex offenders from getting badges. [WRDB]

* NY law requires museums to acknowledge if the art was stolen by Nazis. It’s like that Killmonger scene, but different. [Gothamist]

* Interested in finding out what the government is doing? It’s all in there. Hard to navigate though. [Axios]

* Even if SCOTUS is just LARPing as a squad of John Henrys right now, we should probably know the practical implications of this new 2nd Amendment ruling. Here’s a primer. [WBALTV]

* “Fine. I’ll do it myself.” States scramble to put limits on guns after Thomas and friends™️ say walking outside with a Mac is totally okay. [NYT]

* Florida law lets officers ticket for playing loud music outside. I’m generally against ticketing, but something has to be done to prevent blasting this new Drake album. [Wesh]

* If each person is a militia wasn’t enough, now every person with a gun license is a law enforcement officer? [WSMW]

* It’s only illegal federally: St. Louis law to prevent cops from enforcing federal gun laws. [ABC News]

* We don’t hate the poor, we just love cats! Silicon Valley’s mountain lions trade off with affordable housing. [Yahoo]

* A challenger approaches! West Virginia may be getting a law school soon. [Herald Dispatch]

* Free speech and a shovel: Trump’s most recent talk might have dug him into some trouble. [The Guardian]

Wonder what the penalty for not having insurance would be.

* Firing 46 federal prosecutors may have unleashed 46 incredibly qualified Democratic candidates on the midterm elections. [Politico]

* This… isn’t even surprising. [Huffington  Post]

* It seem incredibly unlikely this will ever happen, but it isn’t a half-bad idea. [The Hill]

* Whaddya know, actions have consequences. Blows my mind too. [Slate]

* And the North Carolina Democratic Party’s response is perfect. [The News & Observer]

* New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman has Rex Tillerson in his sights. [Talking Points Memo]

* A look into Judge Gorsuch’s feelings on immigration. [AP]

* Really? I mean, really? The “Hearing Protection Act” will loosen laws on gun silencers. [The Slot]

* The secret career Ted Cruz doesn’t want you to know about. [Gawker]

* Donald Trump is promising to come after the First Amendment if elected president. Reason number 1,238,108 to do everything in our power to make sure he is never president. [CNN]

* Bad news for Republicans: history is not on your side. The latest number crunching you can cite at cocktail parties when the topic of the Supreme Court’s vacancy comes up. [Washington Post]

* Hoverboards, scooters, and bikes — oh my! Do you know all the laws governing use of these leisure vehicles (at least in New York)? [Cityland]

* Hey! Whaddya know! Gun law really do work — it’s science. [Vox]

* A judge in the UK changed a suspended sentence into jail time after she was mocked by the defendants on Facebook in a lewd post. Just a reminder, no matter what Donald Trump does, you really shouldn’t f*ck with judges. [The Mirror]

* Lawyers need these two things in order to be successful. [Associate’s Mind]

* This is why having the right language interpreter is so important in court. [Katz Justice]

* Expect Justice Scalia’s passing to have a pretty big impact on business, as the Roberts Court, with Justice Scalia, was the most pro-business court since WW2. [New Yorker]

* Today the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention held WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for more than three years, is being “arbitrarily detained” arguing he should be allowed freedom of movement without fear of being extradited to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning for a variety of charges including rape. Though the decision has no formal authority, but Assange, who has maintained his innocence on the Swedish charges, can at least claim a moral victory. That’s something at least. [Washington Post]

* The Fourth Circuit found that Maryland’s gun law, passed in the wake of the horrific Newton shooting, should be reviewed under a strict scrutiny standard since it “significantly burdens the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home” and remanded the case back to the district court. [Wall Street Journal]

* Uber had an actual victory amid all of its legal woes. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided against combining over a dozen employment cases into a MDL. [National Law Journal]

* Meet the woman recently hired as the NFL’s senior vice president for investigations. Lisa Friel, formerly a New York prosecutor in the Sexual Victim’s Unit under District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, is charged with investigating all potential violations of the league’s personal conduct code. Hopefully she can bring some consistency to the process. [New York Times]

* The human cost behind a life led in immigration limbo. No wonder last night’s Dem debate spent so much time talking about the need for comprehensive immigration reform. [CNN]

* “To do nothing in the face of pending disaster is to be complicit. It’s time to act. It’s time to vote.” What a convenient time to discover that the Department of Justice tabled new gun control proposals in favor of an upcoming election campaign. [New York Times]

* Rumor has it that the president will nominate Senator John Kerry to be secretary of state for his second term. Upon hearing the news, Hillary Clinton updated her Tumblr page before she caught a case of the vapors, fainted, and got herself all concussed. [CNN]

* “If you don’t know, then you have to plan for the worst.” Everyone’s pissed off about the possibility of being pushed off the fiscal cliff, but on the bright side, it’s creating a mountain of billables. [National Law Journal]

* Remember the judge who resigned after he accidentally showed a colleague a picture of the “judicial penis”? He was removed from office by a judicial ethics panel. How very effective. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

* And for the talent portion of the competition, Alicia Guastaferro, the pageant princess who was picked up for prostitution after getting caught with an attorney, will have her hooking charges dropped. [Huffington Post]

Our militia could totally take King George III now!

* I’m not sure that it’s legal to tag the cars of people who park poorly, but it’s certainly satisfying. Honestly, every time I see one of those commercials where the dude needs freaking birds to park his “I’ve given up on life” minivan-SUV, I want to scream, “You could act like a man!” [Legal Blog Watch] * SCOTUS is acting like an old college roommate who just came out is inviting them to a gay bar, and they’re trying to politely decline without looking like raging homophobes. [SCOTUSblog] * To all the people who didn’t pass the California bar exam, here’s a guy who did it while only studying for 100 hours. Yeah. So… umm, I didn’t really think this blurb through. [Blake Masters] * Do lawyers need to “love” their clients? Come on, isn’t loving the money they give you enough? [Underdog] * Jason Whitlock took the Jovan Belcher and put the focus exactly where it should be, on our gun laws. Then Bob Costas blew a big megaphone on Sunday Night Football. [Fox Sports] * It’s funny, I’m against sex offender registries because even though sex crimes are heinous, registries are bad things that create second-class citizens and tend to unfairly lump people who didn’t commit the worst stuff in with disgusting humans. That means I should probably be against animal abuse registries too, but man I don’t think animal abusers suffer nearly enough. So, whatever, I’m a hypocrite. I’m a hypocrite who cares more about dogs than children. [Simple Justice]

* Arizona has one of the least restrictive laws on involuntary commitment of nutters in the nation. Next time, Arizona. Next time. [Reuters] * Talk of new gun laws is the perfect time to link to the most criminally underrated movie of all time…UHF. [New York Times] * Two teen girls in Florida were arrested […]

I’m on record as thinking that it’s inappropriate to blame Sarah Palin or any other source of fiery political rhetoric for the horrific shooting that took place in Tucson on Saturday. I said it in real time as facts were coming to light; I said it on Twitter. There are any number of reasons why […]