• “Never forget all the people who in the aftermath of Benghazi were writing things like ‘When Censorship Makes Sense'” [Matt Welch on Twitter, referring to lawprof Tim Wu’s New Republic piece; BuzzFeed (blasphemous video was “non-event” in Libya and never seriously mistaken for cause of attack); Nick Gillespie]
• Nevada: political contributions and federal judgeships [ATL]
• In Louisiana, Orleans Parish pays its lawyers about $1.7 million a year. Are they worth it? [Lee Zurik, WVUE]
• “I brought the big soda back to my desk, and then the terminal said ‘You really shouldn’t have so much sugar.'” [@ledbetreuters via @jackshafer] “I Know When You Logged In Last Summer: The Bloomberg Spying Scandal” [ChartGirl]
• “How did progressive journalists get the Pigford scandal so wrong?” [Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic; earlier here, here, etc.]
• Is the Roberts Court unusually “pro-business”? [Jonathan Adler, Michael Greve, Ted Frank, Jon Hyman (Court’s handling of substantive employment law doesn’t fit supposed pattern)]
• Mel Weiss beats the rap on supervised-release DUI [Amanda Bronstad, NLJ; earlier]

Filed under: John Roberts, Melvyn Weiss, Nevada, New Orleans