Law & Order

The idea of so-called race traitors (like Christina Osborne in this episode) being murdered and hung from a tree is inspired in part by The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald (the nom de plume of white supremacist William Pierce). This violent apocalyptic novel describes a Day of the Rope where so-called race traitors are hung. The book is popular with neo-Nazis and is reputed to have helped inspire the racist killing of James Byrd Jr. in Texas and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma city.

Adam Schiff: I nearly resigned from the ACLU when they defended that racist march in Skokie. This refers to an actual case that the American Civil Liberties Union got involved with. In the late 1970s, Klansmen fought for the right to march through the primarily Jewish town of Skokie, Illinois, defended by both the A.C.L.U. and a Jewish lawyer.

Willis: Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last. Willis was trying to be ironic by imitating Martin Luther King. These were the last lines of King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech.