Legal News for Mon 5/4 - NM Takes Meta to Task, Pentagon AI Deals, Court Ruling Blocking Mifepristone
This Day in Legal History: Freedom Riders
On May 4, 1961, the first Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., by bus for New Orleans, beginning a direct challenge to segregation in interstate travel. The riders were an interracial group organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, and they set out to test whether Southern states and private carriers would follow federal law. The Supreme Court had already made clear in cases such as Boynton v. Virginia that segregation in facilities connected to interstate bus travel was unconstitutional. But in much of the South, those rulings existed more on…
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