Weekly Round-Up for March 9th

Here are links to some of the week's most interesting legal-ish stories:

Phenomenal blog post by Aaron Bady at "The New Inquiry" about privilege, the public space, and what Rush Limbaugh's attack on Sandra Fluke is really about. 

You may have a right to an attorney, but you don't necessarily have a right to nit-pick his/her tactics. 

Laura Miller at Salon reviews a new book by Elaine Pagels that puts the Book of Revelation in its political context. 

Another Salon review (Brooke Allen reviewing Lucy Worsley's If Walls Could Talk) discusses - among other things - the role that social and legal understandings of privacy have literally shaped the homes we live in. 

The Virginia Supreme Court has rejected the Governor's request - demand - for documents from a prominent climate scientist. 

Great TED talk by Bryan Stevenson about racial injustice in the American judicial system.

The Colorado Supreme Court says state law requires the University of Colorado to allow those with permits to carry concealed weapons on campus. 

At Slate, Nathaniel Frank examines social change and resistance to gay marriage reform (and the evidence about its effects). 

New technology, same anti-trust law; the Feds may sue apple for jacking up e-book prices. 

Sometimes too many laws slow down innovation, or so says Jim Cooper in The Atlantic. 

A school district in Minnesota has settled an anti-gay bullying case and agreed to change it's policy. Social change?

Not so much with the social change? Over in Egypt, the LGBT movement is fading. 

It turns out that laws affecting the cost of contraception affect how much sex we have, or at least how much contraception we use. The results aren't what Rush Limbaugh thinks they are.