Censorship

Praying and studying at Harvard. What, like it's hard?

Common sense regulation isn't a hard ask.

I'll read to that!

He's about as good at free speech as he is with rockets.

It's Adam and Eve, Not Florence and the Machine!

Imagine school being held up because some smart aleck submitted a copy of ‘A Portrait Of Dorian Gray.’

* Hopefully, Texas’s “Big Companies Don’t Need Freedom Of Speech” law will go to the Supreme Court. [The Hill]

* Gov. Murphy wants officers to be licensed to protect. [Bronx News]

* The Due Process clause was invoked to suspend a law that would make abortions illegal if an opinion like Dobbs overrules Roe. [MSNBC]

* Biden bumps baby bumpers to save sleeping babes. Say that 5 times fast. [NPR]

* You’re not the only one checking your emails. Hopefully, other states will make it so your job has to tell you when they snoop around. [INC]

* I know that Nietzsche had some thoughts on the utility of truth and lies, but actively fighting history is just silly. [NBC News]

* No, Patrick, you cannot puff, puff, drive. [Oregon Live]

* Sports betting was legalized in Kansas. Finally, something to do for fun besides eat barbecue. [Kansas Reflector]

* Ding Dong Protest: Wonder who was behind the SCOTUS home meet and greets? [USA Today]

* The Louisiana bill that tried to classify abortions as homicides didn’t make it into law. Woop Woop! [Reuters]

* Musk thinks censorship shouldn’t go “beyond the law.” Big talk for a guy facing a securities fraud case. [The Hill]

* Just because: Man who passes bar after 20th attempt still can’t practice law in Massachusetts.  [ABA Journal]

* Adam and Eve, not Adam and Xe: Florida is like two steps away from legally mandating heterosexuality. [Tampa Bay Times]

* You are a boy, Damon! Oklahoma’s Gov. makes it illegal to put that your child is non-binary on their birth certificate. [CNN]

* Law students spent part of their 3L year protecting their clients civil rights! Power to them — I just played OSRS. [UARK]

* When worlds collide: Russian censorship laws make it difficult to report on what’s happening overseas. [CNN]

* Touch my ass again and I’ll sue yours! Just a reminder that under federal law, sexual harassment claims are no longer subject to mandatory arbitration. [JDSupra]

* The girls who know know, the girls who don’t should read this: Ohio’s Supreme Court clarifies a common law concept. [NLR]

* Gritty would be proud: Temple law students help refugees make it safely out of Ukraine. [ABC]

* Censorship is in: “Don’t Say Gay” law goes into effect in Florida. [Politico]

Many social media companies have yet to publish formal guidance on this issue and are choosing to arbitrarily censor CBD.

* Five years later, and one of them enrolled at Yale Law, the kids of Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, plan to raise their own children the same way. [Today]

* Rome self-censors for a state visit from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. How, exactly, was this a good idea? [Popehat]

* Should the ABA change accreditation standards to prevent students with little chance of actually passing the bar examination from attending law school in the first place? [TaxProf Blog]

* Missouri paid its executioners $250,000 in cash. That doesn’t seem shady AT ALL. [BuzzFeed]

* The whole Ammon Bundy debacle is teaching people damn the consequences. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* If you need to scale a courthouse in order to get a selfie with lady liberty, just don’t do it, you could wind up in jail. [KWTX]

* What does Rudy Giuliani really think about Preet Bharara? Plus why he loves being a lawyer. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=9yGt3MF4Sn4

A recent incident suggests that as China's soft power increases, so does its ability to influence even the most powerful of Western online companies.

The Royal Family could learn something about dictatorial power from David Cameron.

FCC makes an entirely reasonable decision. I'm woozy.

* For the first time in history, both major party presidential candidates are graduates of Harvard Law School. When reached for comment, Yale Law School said, “President, that’s one of those jobs that you don’t get for life, right?” [Harvard Law Bulletin] * Please tell me our election technology has at least caught up with 1996 by now. [Election Law Blog] * Uruguay legalizes abortion — subject to a panel review, a five-day waiting period, and getting the father’s opinion on the matter. Yay? [Salon] * Twitter censors a user! But it was a Nazi group, so nobody is going to freak out too much. [Slate] * If this freaking idiot makes it even harder for young, intelligent students to come here on student visas, then his thwarted attack will have caused real damage to American interests. [WSJ Law Blog] * Abraham Lincoln would have gotten tort reform done. [Futility Closet]

* Happy American Censorship Day! Sign these petitions in celebration so you can keep your internet the way you like it — full of infringing and fabulous content. [Volokh Conspiracy] * A prospective law student got married at Zuccotti Park this weekend. Best protest wedding ever? I guess the honeymoon ended after they were evicted. […]