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.
On Wednesday, French riot police used tear gas against protesters trying to block the removal of migrants from an empty Paris high school. The school had been under renovation and was occupied by migrants for the past two weeks. Times Live reports: Protesters, some masked and hooded, had formed a human chain around the high school in the north of the French capital to try to prevent police entering in the early morning raid. Demonstrators pelted the police with objects and chanted “everyone hates the police”, an AFP journalist saw.