The Blue Wall of Silence Is Crumbling Around Derek Chauvin For one of the first times in memory, police are testifying against one of their own. But will it lead to an actual conviction? By Elie Mystal Twitter Today 10:00 am In this image from video, Lt. MORE

The unserious comparisons between Colorado’s voting laws and Georgia’s new one Workers load an All-Star sign onto a trailer after it was removed from Truist Park in Atlanta on Tuesday. John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) By Aaron Blake April 6, 2021 at 10:51 a.m. EDT Add to list From the moment Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game out of Georgia over the state’s new voting law, conservative defenders of the law have predicted impending hypocrisy. MORE

In a statement issued today on the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 5 decision in the Google v. Oracle case , in which the Court ruled 6–2 that Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java code was permissible under the fair use doctrine, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid stated the following: . Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Google in the decade long Google v. MORE

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Atlanta mayor issues executive order against Georgia’s new voting law By Wilborn P. Nobles III , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is taking action against the voting law that Gov. Brian Kemp signed on March 24. On Tuesday afternoon, Bottoms issued an Administrative Order directing the City’s Chief Equity Officer to implement a series of actions to diminish what her office called “new voting restrictions” imposed by Senate Bill 202. MORE

Black Americans flock to gun stores and clubs: 'I needed to protect myself' Abené Clayton “Black novice gun owners line up for a shooting drill during a Black Gun Owners Association training at the Richmond Rod & Gun Club in Richmond, California. MORE

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Biden and Democrats Detail Plans to Raise Taxes on Multinational Firms “Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. would support a global minimum tax, while top Democrats unveiled their own plan to raise taxes on multinational firms. MORE

Casey Flaherty , who for the last two years has been director of legal project management at global law firm Baker McKenzie, and who developed the Procertas technology training and benchmarking platform, has joined LexFusion , a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies launched last October. MORE

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Atlanta mayor issues order to offset restrictions from state’s new voter law From the moment Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 202, Georgia’s new elections law has drawn withering criticism. WSBTV.com News Staff) "ATLANTA — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she has issued an administrative order for the city’s Chief Equity Officer to implement a series of actions to offset the state’s new voting law. MORE