Legal News for Fri 3/21 - Paul Weiss Cowardice, Helicopters Taxed in NYC, Musk's Data Grab Blocked and Another Appellate Bench Vacancy
This Day in Legal History: Selma to Montgomery March
On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led the beginning of the third and final Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement. The march was a direct response to the violent suppression of earlier demonstrations and the systemic disenfranchisement of Black voters in the Jim Crow South. Just weeks earlier, peaceful marchers had been brutally attacked by law enforcement on “Bloody Sunday,” as they attempted to cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. That violence was broadcast nationwide, shocking the…
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