I just got a phone call from an old friend in north Texas. She does a lot of work with law enforcement, especially in the area of domestic violence counseling and response. I hope she will not mind me saying, but she’s a tough Texas chick. She called to tell me what she and her teenage son dealt with last night at the movies in Frisco, a prosperous suburb of Dallas.
“I thought I knew what was going on in this country,” she said. “I was wrong.”
A concerned lawyer sends in this Eugene Volokh item about a proposed American Bar Association rule change to the ABA’s conduct rules — which have been adopted by a number of states to govern their lawyers. The rule change, if approved, stands to make anything a lawyer says (in the conduct of her job) that offends an officially protected victim group a violation of professional standards — and therefore subject to sanction. Volokh:
When asked to explain why "million and milions of people listen to what trump says and voted for him," infamously liberal director Rob Reiner replied "There are a lot of people who are racist..." ... And scene.
Morning Joe co-anchor Willie Geist asked Reiner,
It appears from the explosion of social media furore that, as infowars.com reports, the #NeverTrump movement and social justice warriors are completely imploding after Trump won the Indiana primary and became the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
"For many diehard [anti-Trump] Republicans, especially foreign policy ‘hawks,’ there is only one viable alternative—vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton," Kurt Nimmo reported.
How did I not know about this before now?
How the Swing-O-Matic works: We started with the results of the 2012 election and the support for each party’s candidate by the five demographic groups. We then adjusted the size of those groups based on four years of population change. When you adjust the vote and turnout above, our model recalculates the results for each state — as well as the Electoral College outcome and the national popular vote — taking into account how much of the state’s electorate the group accounts for.