(Entirely) from Matt Yglesias:

The case of United States v. Miller, footnote one:

The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A “hoe,” of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing “hoe” to “ho,” a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps “You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.”

So true. I think it's a little weird that they bothered to get into this but managed not to actually define the term "ho." Either it's relevant or it's not, you know.