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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.31.17

* What you can learn from Tiger Woods's DUI arrest. [Versus Texas] * Are we in the new age of monopolies? [Salon] * This is reading an awful lot into unanimous Supreme Court decisions. [Washington Post] * New York isn't the liberal utopia you might think it is. [Jezebel] * The election law gap between red states and blue states. [Election Law Blog] * In NYC? Then join WNYC’s All Things Considered host Jami Floyd for a conversation about Loving v. Virginia on June 12th. [The Greene Space] * Call off the lawyers. [Law and More] * What's the opposite of banning something? [Huffington Post] * Theorizing over Jared Kushner's motivation. [Slate]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.19.16

* North Carolina's governor-elect announced legislators will meet tomorrow to repeal their terrible bathroom law. [LawNewz] * The first trailer for the legal television show The Good Fight, the CBS streaming spinoff of The Good Wife, is here, and piles on the sex. [Slate] * Ohio elector resigns from the electoral college in order to keep her day job. [Election Law Blog] * Women receive lower grades in large law school classes. [TaxProf Blog] * A difficult, but important read: a letter from a woman to the man that raped her. [Huffington Post] * Huma Abedin gets to be the scapegoat for some looking for a patsy for Hillary Clinton's loss. [Law and More] * Nearly a thousand lawyers, policy experts, and activists are expected to attend a "counter-inaugural" conference in D.C. on Jan 21-22, 2017, featuring speakers like Sam Munger (SiX), Tom Goldstein (co-founder of SCOTUSblog), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Jonathan Lowy (Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). The conference will begin after the (free) Women's March on Washington on Saturday morning. Learn more and register here. [Rise Above]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.16.16

* I've had an interesting week. [Simple Justice] * But at least I'm real. [Popehat] * Next week will be an interesting week for the Electoral College. [Balkinization] * Huma Abedin's lawyers politely request that the FBI explain exactly how they screwed over America. [New York Daily News] * I don't really understand the Department of Justice "bid rigging" investigation into ad agencies. I don't really understand why it's important. But apparently some ad execs could go to jail behind this, so I understand that whatever is happening is pretty cool. [Business Insider] * Ashley Madison agrees to a $1.6 million settlement with the FTC over its alleged failure to protect user data. That doesn't seem like a lot to me. That seems like a "my wife saw my info on Ashley Madison and I had to sleep on the couch for a week" kind of penalty. Not a "my wife saw my info on Ashley Madison and now I live in my brother's basement while the lawyers figure out how often I can still see my children" penalty. [ABA Journal]

By Elie Mystal
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.02.16

* It's officially time to be worried about voter intimidation -- the lawsuits may not be enough to stop it. [Huffington Post] * Huma Abedin gets some Biglaw muscle on her side: Karen Dunn of Boies Schiller. [Law and More] * No, refusing to consider any Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee is not principled. [Salon] * Texas official dropped a c-bomb on Twitter over Hillary Clinton. [The Slot / Jezebel] * A little change in the Freedom of Information Act could lead to a lot more transparency. Eventually. [Slate]

By Kathryn Rubino