A few interesting legal blurbs I picked up today:
- A new report from the Department of Justice details a pattern of improper ideological hiring practices in DoJ during the Duhbya years. In equally stunning news, Captain Renault discovers gambling at Rick's!
- Arin Greenwood at Slate dives into the frightening world of prison cuisine, taste testing various recipes for Nutraloaf, aka confinement loaf. Not surprisingly, it's awful, tho' not cruel and unusual.
- I've never been a big fan of the Supreme Court's "community standards" test for obscenity (or prohibiting obscenity in the first place). The idea that, as Kevin Gilbert put it, I'm left "waiting for my neighbors to tell me what's obscene," seems out of place in a Constitution that should apply equally everywhere. And what is the 21st Century "community," anyway? A defense attorney in a Florida obscenity trial has an interesting idea - it involves Google.
- Finally, the Supreme Court makes a stunning ruling, that the death penalty is 'totally badass':
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