A.M. Links: Drafting the Dead, Unconstitutional Redistricting, National Gay Blood Drive, Continued Violence in Israel and Gaza

Rockets from both Gaza and Lebanon
hit Israel Friday morning, followed by more Israeli airstrikes
against Hamas militants in Gaza. Health officials
there say the strikes have killed over 100 Palestinians
(including about two-thirds civilians) since Tuesday.
A circuit judge
in Florida has ruled the state’s congressional map
unconstitutional. “Republican political consultants or operatives
did in fact conspire to manipulate and influence the redistricting
process,” wrote Judge Terry Lewis.
The
National Gay Blood Drive is working to change an FDA policy,
enacted in 1983, that puts a lifetime ban on blood donations from
any man who has, “from 1977 to the present, (had) sexual contact
with another male, even once.”
A Washington state man who was fired from his job after
appearing in the media
buying legal recreational marijuana has been reinstated; the
company called it all a “misunderstanding.”
Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing Company is suing the Atlanta-based Sessions
Law Firm for trademark infringement.
The sex
trade is booming in Silicon Valley (and the FBI doesn’t
like it).
The Pennsylvania government mistakenly sent more than 14,000
military
draft notification letters to dead men, all born between
1893 and 1897.