Slavery

I wonder how many circuit judges had slave-owning ancestors.

Maybe... don't?

Maybe next they can find the descendants of the enslaved and pay them directly!

I'd say he has his work cut out for him if he really wants to pursue this claim, but he'll probably take a page out of his ancestor's book and 'outsource' the labor.

What happened happened, but times are a changin. 

Of course this was based in Florida.

"Being against slavery is so hot right now" - Some Biglaw firm's PR director

* Preventing collusion with enslavement in China has Americans worried things won’t be as cheap. Very strong “Ethical accountability is cool and all, but I need to eat chocolate!” vibes. [NYT]

* Texas’s Robb Elementary school is slated to be demolished. [Reuters]

* SCOTUS thinks having a gun during a theft isn’t inherently violent. Little weird but okay. [CNN]

* Still figuring out where the Carson v. Makin ruling came from? The signs were there all along. [CNN]

* Rule of discretion: Sheriffs are running on the platform of NOT enforcing the laws they’d be sworn to protect. Like a bunch of them. [Colorado Sun]

I am hopeful. Suspicious that Rachel Dolezal will somehow benefit the most from this — but hopeful.

* A lawyer was suspended for forging a judge’s signature. There’s a good pun about lacking judgment somewhere in that. [Bloomberg Law]

* Judge who jailed kids under a bogus law still under fire. If cancel culture is real, she should be the Cancelee of the Month. [WKRN]

* SCOTUS Justice thinks about if cops can be sued vis a vis cigarette-smoking centaurs. I didn’t think I’d ever write that string of words, yet here we are. [Bloomberg Law]

* Beware, lovers: Ohio has an antiquated law that allows for marriage as a defense to rape. [Dispatch]

* California passes a law requiring a gender-neutral aisle in toy stores. Mx. Potato Heads are about to be flying off the shelves! [USA Today]

* California schools now required to provide free menstrual products to their students. About damn time. [NBC News]

* High school have kids have mock slave auction for their black classmates. I know the children are our future, but it’s looking bleak. [KGW]

* Overdoses resulting from people brewing poppy tea. Dope opportunity to teach 1Ls about strict liability though. [ABA Journal]

* Simone Biles and Aly Raisman are about to testify to the Senate concerning Larry Nassar.  [Reuters]

* Bit of practicum for today: some advice on what evidence to collect after a car accident. Try to manage that road rage, either way. [Legal Reader]

* There is a lot of talk about qualified immunity on the outside, but what about after you’ve been sentenced? Rory Fleming talks prison reform here. [The Crime Report]

There's nothing wrong with black people that ending racism wouldn't fix.

Also California Is Using Slave Labor To Fight Fires

Wherein I Have To Defend Slaver George Washington From The Nazis Sullying His Name

It's an empty gesture. But so are most symbolic policies, and yet that meaninglessness does not make them unimportant.

Fine. Here is a response to every stupid line in Bill O’Reilly’s slave worker fantasy.

The Supreme Court declined to take up a high-profile petition on corporate liability for child slavery a world away.

* More bar exam results! Which school saw its passage rate take a 15 point hit? [Bar Exam Stats]

* This is the right way to break up a protest at Planned Parenthood: with a smiling clit cartoon. [Slate]

* How we can rethink the history of slavery and the Constitution. [Berkeley News]

* Maybe Judge Stevens is onto something — the Supreme Court to take on the issue of racial bias in jury selection. [Gawker]

* Hillary wants to keep marijuana illegal — is this her version of she “didn’t inhale?” [Al-Jazeera]

* Kickstarter class actions. What hell hath we wrought? [Associates Mind]

* In this corner we have the Oregon Attorney General. In the other we have vitamin giant GNC. Who will win this battle royale? Not so fast — it’s a trick question since one side’s dietary supplements were laced with illegal drugs. [Vox]

* The latest in The Atlantic’s series on the Reconstruction. [The Atlantic]