* The first rule of Tax Law: If you're rich, you don't pay them. [CBS News]
* Biden prepares to sue Texas over SB8. What's Sleepy SCOTUS™ gonna do next? [Wall Street Journal]
* United Airlines blesses religious exemption to COVID vaccine, but will put you on unpaid leave. Talk about living on a prayer. [CNBC]
* Prepare for "Do you know how fast you were going? Add me on Facebook." at your next traffic stop, LA. [The Guardian]
* Prosecutor opts out of charging felonies that stem from minor traffic stops. Rest in Peace, Mr. Castile. [Yahoo]
* Maybe the news outside of the Supreme Court is a little more positive today? Oh, looks like the CBO scored the GOP healthcare bill and figured out that 22 more people will be... uninsured. Wait, that can't be right. That's not what Trump promised and we know that he never, ever lies. [CNN]
* Donald Trump is now accusing Barack Obama of colluding with the Russians to help Hillary Clinton. Lately, I've been really trying to think back to kindergarten to try to remember what precisely I said when a kid said "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you." And I realize, I didn't have a response. I didn't have a strategy or polemic designed to blunt the effectiveness of that argument. Kids just, you know, grew up and stopped saying it. ... I worry about our future. [NBC News]
* Note to self: challenging white people on white people television is dangerous for my career. Note from every black intellectual ever: Duh. [The Root]
* Middletown, Ohio councilman suggests that EMS should stop immediately responding to overdose emergencies to save money. I wish I could be there when the final cost of the wrongful death lawsuit is put into the Middletown budget. Like, it'd almost be worth one of his constituents dying just to see his crying, stupid face when the jury awards damages. [NY Daily News]
* But not actually worth it. Philando Castile's family settled with the city for $3 million. And it just reminds me that the cities would rather pay millions of dollars every few times their police officers murder someone, instead of doing anything to stop the murderers and hold their officers accountable. [NPR]
* Martin Shkreli's fraud trial started today, but everyone in the jury pool obviously knows the price-gouging douche-bro. So once again we're in a situation where we'll need to find jurors who don't know Shkreli, because to know him is to loathe him. [Are Technica]
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* Cop found not guilty for killing Philando Castile because it's simply not illegal for cops to kill black men. Maybe this will just sag, like a heavy load. Or maybe explode. [NPR]
* Professor Orin Kerr thinks that self-driving cars will change police strategies. Maybe, but cops will still find a way to murder unarmed black men for automated "menacing" driving or something. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Hero Pop shows these men of will what will really is. And Trumpsters are "heartbroken."
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* David Lat was on The Takeaway today to talk about the Avengers-level team of witch hunters Robert Mueller has assembled. [The Takeaway]
* Dreamers can stay, their parents must go. This passes for a "victory" in these times. [ABA Journal]
* There's a scene in Star Trek 3 where Captain Kirk asks Klingon Christopher Lloyd to beam up teenage Spock. The Klingon says no, Kirk asks why, and Lloyd says, "Because you wish it!" Trump's Cuba reversal, and general political strategy, seems to follow the same logic as Klingon Christopher Lloyd. If Captain Obama wished it, the Trump does not do it. [New York Times]
* Breitbart is covering and promoting a protest in response to the Congressional shooting. A protest of -- I'm not making this up -- a protest of CNN. Guns don't kill people, fact-based journalism kills people. [Breitbart]
