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A federal judge has denied a request to speed up consideration of a lawsuit against North Carolina’s felon voting restrictions. An order issued Monday leaves the case’s current timeline intact.
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 pu
In 2010, Republicans gained control of the Alabama legislature for the first time in 136 years. The redistricting maps drawn by Republicans following the 2010 election preserved the thirty-five majority-minority districts in the Alabama legislature represented overwhelmingly by black Democrats and in some cases actually increased the number of minority voters in those districts. For example, State…