Racism

Almost like he doesn't care about the victims as much as he cares about generating a headline...

Maybe she'll use this setback to rebrand as Clarence Thomas's clerk!

The lawsuit against Northwestern Law would be comic if its subject matter weren't so tragic.

If this is how she was allegedly treated, how is everyone else faring at the firm?

Venerable legal institution slashes staff, raising concerns about priorities at a dangerous time.

Honestly, you will be shocked by the exact quotes. But not as shocked as you'll be by the 'apology.'

What exactly does a professor have to do to get fired?

Do you know how high the threshold for frivolousness is?

I guess that's one way to celebrate Black History Month.

Amy Wax invited a white nationalist to campus and one of her students wants everyone to be more polite about it.

Non-lawyer Stephen Miller times another legal action for maximum publicity (and fundraising)!

There's something rotten in the state of North Carolina.

The fewer cowards in black robes, the better.

America First Legal accuses NYU Law Review of discriminating against white man who hasn't even tried to apply yet.

Former Senate aide who complained about making judicial nominees testify that they oppose segregation thinks... exactly what you'd expect based on that preface.

This week we chat about the First Amendment, sexual harassment, and, yet again, Blackface in the legal community.

* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]

* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]

* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]

* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]

* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]

* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]

* Federal courts have two weeks of funding if the government shuts down. So there’s a silver lining to a shutdown? [Reuters]

* Joshua Wright’s accusers respond to his massive defamation suit against them noting that the complaint fails to include any defamatory statements and… kind of admits to everything. [Law360]

* Former Obama administration officials tell FCC not to pursue net neutrality because conservatives in the judiciary might strike it down. At that rate, just go ahead and preemptively stop enforcing all laws because Sam Alito once read a medieval scroll that he thinks applies to the Chevron doctrine. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Sid and Cheesy get to interview grand jury members who returned their indictments. But with some key conditions. [Fox Atlanta]

* Lawrence Lessig is unimpressed by the Fourteenth Amendment case against Donald Trump. Not for the loony “just because the presidency is an office of the United States doesn’t make the president an officer of the United States” stuff from Mukasey, but because lowering the bar for insurrection all the way to January 6 would open up a dangerous precedent that bad actors could use to shut down dissent. [Slate]

* The Supreme Court specifically excluded military academies from the latest affirmative action cases, reflecting in part the military’s stance that national security requires a diverse officer corps capable of managing an increasingly diverse enlisted force. The folks who brought that case have now sued West Point because they care way more about bigotry than national security. [Reuters]

* Temple’s acting president, former law school dean JoAnne Epps has died after collapsing on stage. [NY Times]

How did it take over a week for anyone to notice how wildly inappropriate this was?

Amy Wax brings white nationalist back to UPenn's campus because she's nothing if not consistent. And racist.