No Heroes in Washington (Episode 3)

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The show keeps getting longer! 😱 This week: DeVos gets booed, headlines deceive, police kill two more kids, Sessions relaunches the Drug War, Trump fires Comey, and for #Law140 we get into the details of precedent and how it works.

Show Notes:

• Trump cans Comey (NBC News)
• Betsy DeVos booed at Bethune-Cookman (The Atlantic)
• Historical Illiteracy on HBCUs, Part I (Twitter)
• Harvard segregates graduation – but not really (Twitter)
• Even Snopes calls bullsh*t on the Harvard “story” (Snopes)
• Bad people are bad people (Twitter)
• Attorney General Beauregard revs up the prison-industrial complex (CNN)
• CALIFORNIA: Police kill 15yo Jacob Peterson (ABC10)
  • Remember, just last week: police killed 15yo Jordan Edwards in Texas (Fsck #2)
• CONNECTICUT: Police kill 15yo Jayson Negron (Hartford Courant)
• Citing segregation to defend Trump (HuffPost)
• Palmer is still “good law” (Twitter)
• “The Switch in Time that Saved Nine” (Wikipedia)
• Palmer v Thompson (Oyez)
• Romer v Evans (Oyez)
• West Coast Hotel Company v Parrish (Oyez)
• Morehead v New York ex rel Tipaldo (Oyez)
• Dred Scott v Sandford (Oyez)