Morning Docket: 06.22.22

* Preventing collusion with enslavement in China has Americans worried things won't be as cheap. Very strong "Ethical accountability is cool and all, but I need to eat chocolate!" vibes. [NYT] * Texas's Robb Elementary school is slated to be demolished. [Reuters] * SCOTUS thinks having a gun during a theft isn't inherently violent. Little weird but okay. [CNN] * Still figuring out where the Carson v. Makin ruling came from? The signs were there all along. [CNN] * Rule of discretion: Sheriffs are running on the platform of NOT enforcing the laws they'd be sworn to protect. Like a bunch of them. [Colorado Sun]

Dictionary Series – Ethics* Preventing collusion with enslavement in China has Americans worried things won’t be as cheap. Very strong “Ethical accountability is cool and all, but I need to eat chocolate!” vibes. [NYT]

* Texas’s Robb Elementary school is slated to be demolished. [Reuters]

* SCOTUS thinks having a gun during a theft isn’t inherently violent. Little weird but okay. [CNN]

* Still figuring out where the Carson v. Makin ruling came from? The signs were there all along. [CNN]

* Rule of discretion: Sheriffs are running on the platform of NOT enforcing the laws they’d be sworn to protect. Like a bunch of them. [Colorado Sun]


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