1. Today the Supreme Ct denied a motion to vacate a stay in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax Cty School Bd. If you care about gov't being able to recognize and seek to redress racial disparities (even via race-neutral policies), you should breathe a sigh of relief. 2. The district court (Judge Hilton, E.D. Va.) had struck down a magnet high school's race blind, meritocratic admissions policy because the board that adopted it was too concerned about avoiding exclusion of Black and Hispanic students. (Summary judgment for plaintiffs.)

1. Looks like you can add "abandoning child at the moment he faces potential life imprisonment at age 15, to avoid one's own much lesser charges" to the Crumbleys' parenting highlights. Man. Not excusing the kid's actions, but boy, did he ever lose the parenting lottery. 2. And the more we learn about them, the more it becomes clear that this case is actually a good illustration of why even the worst acts, when committed by a 15yo, are, well, not the acts of an adult.

1. Some are wondering how to differentiate this Michigan case from other cases of parental irresponsibility with guns, leading to a child's crime. This is straightforward, I think, given the extraordinary facts. 2. To clarify, the parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter, based on a criminal negligence standard. This is not "aiding and abetting" liability. They are being charged for their OWN negligence leading, causally, to the chid's death.

1.Another tweetstorm! Economics is engaged in needed self-examination on race. I want to address one thread of this, germane to the policing discussion: the obsession with distinguishing “statistical discrimination” from “taste-based” discrimination or “prejudice.” 2. As an outsider (a law prof) who publishes in econ journals and reads a lot of econ articles, I was really taken aback when I first encountered this (and still am). In my field, criminal justice, it’s particularly jarring; it is a straight-up defense of racial profiling.

1. Tweetstorm on the Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) op-ed being widely cited by critics of #BlackLivesMatter. At a @UChicagoLaw webinar, I referred dismissively to her yearslong campaign to debunk the “myth” of police racism. Some audience members wanted more engagement. Can do. 2. Mac Donald is a big-time conservative crime pundit. Jeff Sessions called her “the greatest thinker on criminal justice in America today.” She wrote a book called “The War on Cops.” Here’s the op-ed: wsj.com/articles/the-m…