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Fewer Biglaw Firms Are Offering Paid Time Off To Encourage Voting, Volunteering During Election 2024

No matter what your firm is doing, please do your civic duty and vote in today's election. Your vote matters!

Supreme Court Decisions Only Matter To Republicans When They Go Their Way

Yup. It's Alabama again.

Judge Prevents Mississippi From Creating White-Elected Courts For Black Counties… For Now

Shouts out to Henry Wingate.

Morning Docket: 03.15.23

* Justice Ketanji has stood out for her questions. Her decisions have fallen in line with the others thus far. [ABA Journal] * A Texas judge could play a role in banning abortion pills nationwide: Quite a lot of intervention from the Lone Star state. [Reuters] * Like voting? You should follow this one: North Carolina's redistricting case is gonna have some spillover. [Reuters] * The "Rust" prosecutor flaked. [NYT] * Conflicts of interest are no joke in these parts. [NY Daily News]

I Did Not Have Mississippi Creating Whites-Only Courts On My Black History Month Bingo Card

'You don't understand — this isn't blatant racism and segregation, it's tradition and heritage.'

If You Had The Supreme Court Supporting Fair And Non-Discriminatory Elections As A Wish This Year, I Have Bad News

So this is how democracy dies… with weird, Jenga-like pieces.

Morning Docket: 10.07.22

* Biden just mass pardoned everyone convicted of weed possession in DC. Next, the world! [CNBC] * Delaware's Supreme Court to soon decide the constitutionality of mail-in voting. Prepare your parcels! [Delaware Online] * Nothing says Biglaw like dropping coin on a dime. Bitcoin, rather. [Bloomberg Law] * Plan on working long-term at Hogan Lovell's Perth office? About that... [Law.com] * San Diego PD are resigning over accountability measures. [Just Sentinel]

Morning Docket: 10.04.22

* No more baseball rules for preteens in New Jersey — Progress! [New Jersey Monitor] * In Missouri and plan on voting? Here's a primer. [Missouri Independent] * Michigan's abortion laws may be subject to change. Take 3 to learn about Prop 3. [Axios] * Supreme Court slated to hear Alabama's voting rights case. Welp, democracy was nice while it lasted. [Reuters] * The Onion makes it way to the Supreme Court. No, seriously. [NYT]

Cornell Law Professor Gives Redistricting And Gerrymandering Breakdown

Soon the campaign trail will just be Texas and Mississippi, as The Founders intended.

Returned By The Supreme Court, Michigan Will Decide The Issue Of Abortion

Next term they'll be voting on if heart transplants are okie dokie.

Morning Docket: 04.04.22

* Two Americas: Legal battles are making for radically different living experiences state by state. [NYT] * Too little, too late? New federal anti-lynching law may not be enough of a deterrent. [NPR] * Florida has been trying to make the most of the whole 1965 Voting Rights Act being gutted and all. [NYT] * Trump’s Twitter emulator is failing bigly. Hard to speak freely with bad coders. [BBC] * All good boys protect and serve: Officer attacking a teenager bitten by K-9. [YouTube]

Morning Docket: 01.07.22

* A fig leaf or a Trojan Horse? McConnell backing an election law change has a few people confused. [The Hill] * And a 1 and a 2! Utah has to figure out how they are going to deal with armed protesters. [Deseret News] * The judge from the highest court (of our childhoods) creates a $5M scholarship to help women succeed in law. [Law.com] * The legal aftermath of the men who lynched Ahmaud Arbery continues — the length of their sentencing and a potential death penalty are still on the table. [CNN] * UNLV Law is going to keep some of their courses online for the semester. Will other schools follow suit? [FOX News]

Morning Docket: 01.04.22

* Teaching is fundamental: how teachers handle the return to in-person classes and the implementation of anti-CRT legislation is gonna be groundbreaking. [AP] * A civil rights lawyer from the Loving case thinks the case is still relevant to... a death penalty case? See if you follow the logic. [Bloomberg Law] * A change of scenery: Texan abortion providers want the district court to hear challenges to SB8 rather than the appeals court. I hope it goes well. [The Texas Tribune] * NY mayor has some hesitation about letting non-citizens vote in elections. This is probably gonna go to court. [City and State] * What is beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly? Legal ambiguity may have put a man on death row. Again. [NYT]

The Black Legal Wellness Forum Tackles The Black Vote

The forum was started in the wake of George Floyd’s death to tackle issues of systemic racism.

GOP Hates Voting By Mail. Except For Seniors. And Rural Folks. And Military. And …

Vote By Mail For Me, But Not For Thee.