News stories and items of interest from last week:
- Presidents Obama and Rouhani share a phone call, the first official contact between US and Iranian heads of state since 1979 (BuzzFeed)
- The Senate confirmed the US’s first out gay circuit court judge (BuzzFeed)
- A former public defender discusses misconceptions and little known facets of the US criminal justice system (Boston Review)
- A Minnesota appeals court finds a Rastafarian right to possess drug paraphernalia (Volokh)
- And finally, Saul Goodman, partner at Covington & Burling (we’ll miss you, Breaking Bad) (Legal Cheek)
