2016
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December 2016
- Is There A Logic Of Empathy? A Thought To End 2016
- A Twit Of Treason
- Those Who Can, Do
- Free Speech, ACLU Conditions Apply
- Starting A War On The Way Out The Door
- The Internets of Ars Miranda
- Normalizing Lists, Depriving Rights
- Privacy? What’s Not To Like?
- All That’s Wrong In Evangeline Parish
- The “White Genocide” Litmus Test
- Unchosen Guardians Of Our Civil Liberties
- The Point Of A Museum
- Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah
- The Meaning of The Day
- A Tale Of Two Senators
- Nancy Shurtz And The Trauma Of The Extended Victim (Update)
- Seeing, Believing, Technology
- Believe The Victim (Because He’s Dead)
- Minnesota Football: Is It Belief Or Evidence?
- Good Cop, Bad Cop, Drunk Cop
- Woman Of The House
- Cross: Justice Mark Dwyer, From Wingman To Law Man
- Big Words, Big Thoughts (Update)
- Loyola Chicago Students Outraged At Pre-Guilty Rapist
- Above And Beyond? Reasonable Doubt Is Unethical
- An Homage To The Electoral College
- Nominations Are Open For the 2016 Best Criminal Law Blawg Post
- Longer Sentences, The “Best You Can Get”
- He Sang “Girls”!!! (Update)
- Whiter and Brighter, The Hidden Identity
- Jeff Sessions Sucks (And So Can You)
- Believe Victims Or Evidence: When You Can’t Do Both
- Friends, Friends, Friends, We Will Always Be
- Ten Pints Between Friends
- It’s In The Mail (Update)
- Did I Say “Thank You”?
- The Intransigent Judge Rayford Means (Update)
- Game Theory: Twit For Tat
- Cross: Brad Heath, Where Legal Journalism And Investigative Reporting Meet
- When Suppression Is A Hollow Victory: The Password Exception To Miranda
- After The Reform Applause Dies
- Education’s Philosophical Fantasy Fixes Fail
- Magic Words And The Missouri Supreme Court
- Nullification Isn’t Tantamount To Murder
- No Duty To Die (Update)
- Toughen Up, Teacup, If You Want To Write
- The Burden Of Post-Factual Proof
- Is British Airways’ New Idea Tough To Swallow?
- The Sanctum Santorum: Striking Fear In The Lecture Hall
- The Final Freedom For Your Own Good
- Rep. Jackie Speier Explains Why Your Son’s Life Should Be Destroyed
- Reflections On Other People’s Years
- Israel To BDS: Complain All You Want, But Not Here
- Judges Of A Lesser God
- The American Bar Association, 1878-2016
- Will Dueling Guidance Sink The Transgender Agenda?
- Facebook: Ripe For Revenge
- Cross: Jonathan Adler, Focusing On The Crush Of Regulation
- Banzhaff On The Adorable Unicorns of GWU
- Anti-Semitism And The Senate’s Really Bad Law
- Gupta Gets Religion: What Have The Feds Done About It?
- Crime Fluid
- Arrested Because The Computer Said So
- Newton’s Third Law Of Outrage
- Rape By Emotional Manipulation
- The Incredible, Edible ACLU Chimes In
- Don’t Hang Michael Slager
- Really? Yes, Really, You’re Part of Your Problem
- The Downside To A Public Defender’s Principled Position
- Because Everybody Loves Lists?
- Illegals: Law, Language & Policy
November 2016
- Cross: Sheriff Russell Martin, Restoring Integrity In Delaware County, Ohio
- The Unreasonable Expectations Of Authority
- Regulating The Fake News Marketplace
- Fault Lines: Law Student Division
- Taser’s Body Cams Extra Special Feature
- The “Regular Guy” Goes To Washington
- California Lawyers Dreaming (About Sex With Clients)
- The Solution To Fake News Is Progressive News
- Mindfulness When The Moment Kinda Sucks (Update)
- The Killing Seemed So Important At The Time
- Shelter From The Storm
- The Business Transaction Called “Dinner” At 1300 On Fillmore
- Talking Thanks, Hearing Thanks
- Baby You Can Drive My Car
- Can Kiddies Consent?
- Lawyers Left And Model Rule 8.4(g)
- When @POTUS Twits
- Misogyny And Everything Is Violence
- Double Points In The Lincoln Bedroom
- The All-Star Team Of Evil
- Guest Post: See Something, Say Something (Like Bullshit)
- A (Relatively) Open Thread: Identity First (Update x2)
- The $2 Chemist Rule
- There Is No “Morality” Exception
- But Korematsu? Never Again
- Aggravated Felonies And Aggravating Hysteria
- The Future Of OCR’s Dear Colleague
- Stuck In The Middle With You
- Cross: Dara Lind, Keeping Criminal & Immigration Law Honest At Vox
- When Batson Bumps Into the Sixth Amendment
- Dog Whistling Past The White House
- The News That’s Fit To Print
- The Dangling Nomination
- The Tech Solution To The Bail Problem
- An 80-20% Discussion
- Twitter, Twitter, Gab, Gab, Gab
- Blood On The Tracks
- The Clueless Constitution: Welcome Aboard
- Stop Crying Long Enough To Blame
- Forfeiture Of The DNA Indictment
- The Trauma Of Your First Loss
- Job? Definitely. Gun? Well…
- Sex Crimes Meet Whenever
- The New Nine: Make The Supreme Court Legitimate Again
- America Pressed Reset
- Someone Who Should Never Judge
- 2016 Go Your Own Way
- The Worst Innocence Argument Ever
- For The Lesser Good
- The Exhausted Overlord
- Harvard Blows The Teaching Moment
- A Blogging Bully And Bail
- Crime and Punishment In Blackface
- Cold, Cold Calls
- A Bronx Without Books
- No Home For University of Minnesota Football Players
- Cross: Drew Whitney Morgan, The Verdict is Comedy
- The Tranny and the Crank Case
- Spies And Lies: Judge Haight Tries To Clean Up His Mess
- Nothing? Why Yes, Nothing
October 2016
- A Bold, But Unemployed, Academic
- Screw Jim Comey, Burn The Witch
- One Door Down
- Suzanne Hooper, Entitled And Angry
- Comey And The Death Of Quaint Rectitude
- Valuing Life: The Conundrum
- What Can Diversity Teach Us?
- Virtually Horrifying
- Houston Judge Mary Lou Keel’s Bizarre Hissy Fit (Update)
- Clarence Thomas Suffers The Moira Smith Lesson
- Faux Feminists And Mission Creep
- The Late, Great Third Branch
- Cross: Alan Gura, The Lawyer Who Changed The Second Amendment
- Teacups In The Trenches
- Funding The Entitlement Problem
- Will Art Acevedo’s Rant Change Anything?
- The Eric Garner Rift Grows Wider (Update)
- Ways To Think (Max Planck Edition)
- Rape, Incest And Retribution
- The Dead, The Living And The Dots
- The Surreal Unpleasantness of Going Viral
- Fishing For Pleas
- Danner’s Death And The Great Divide
- When The Only Word That Means Anything Is The “Hat”
- PENsplaining Away The First Amendment
- The Price of Logic (In The Age of Emotion)
- Grace And The Bloodless Coup
- Cross: Bryan Garner, The Last Word On Legal Writing
- Sotomayor’s Baseball Bat
- Fear of Flying
- Don’t Schmerber Me, Bro
- IACP Says “Sorry For Racism,” Everybody Hugs
- The Commuter’s Dilemma
- Blow Is Only A Figure Of Speech
- Locker Room Talking
- Lay Lady Lay
- Linda Greenhouse: Love The Legislature of Nine
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Fall From Grace (and resurrection?)
- Never Forget That Face (Or That Penis)
- Trump, Times And The Dance Of The Lawyer Letters
- Judge Andre Birotte Jr. Enables Yom Kippur Attack
- Names in the News, Volume 1
- Assault By Twitter In The First Degree
- The Anti-Toxic Masculinity President
- Cross: Ex-Seattle Chief Norm Stamper, Still Breaking Ranks
- The Legal System’s Naivete Gap
- Principled Is Only Great If You’re Alive
- To Win The Presidency, Sacrifice Law
- Supreme Court’s Short, Sleepy and Conflicted Term
- That “Somebody” Who Will Fix This
- Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson, RIP
- Sentenced In The Court Of Sad Feelz
- An Over-Taxing Question About Being Smart
- What Darren Smith Said
- The Feds Will Save Us
- Didn’t You Realize He Was The Snake?
- Based Upon Training And Experience
- Return of the Killer Trophies
- What Not To Wear, SJW Halloween Edition
- Louis Stokes And An Unreasonable Articulable Suspicion
- Cross: John Pfaff, Challenging Conventional Wisdom To End Overincarceration
- UT Prof Bill Deane Takes A Swan Dive Into Gender Chaos Theory (Update)
- Kansas City Librarian Takes A Knee For The Constitution
- Abreast Of Offense
- But For Video: A Totally Ordinary Arrest
- Automation Nation
- Book Review: Twisting Title IX
- Free Pepe
- Not Today
- Whose Problem?
- @Instapundit and Twitter, The “Crystal Meth of Social Media”
- The Jude Cause And The Ferguson Effect
September 2016
- Headless Nations: The Next Wave Of Drug Violence
- Housekeeping: It’s (not) In The Mail
- On Climate Change, The Answer Is Obvious
- Once An Expert
- Under Pressure: A Failed Campaign’s Emails Of Tears
- Cross: Carol O’Brien, Because There Are Bad People Out There
- When It’s Personal, The Virtues Of Due Process Become Clear
- “Manterrupting” Or Equality: Pick One
- Sex Offenders International
- The Social Justice Inquisition Murdered Harambe (Update)
- The Thin Line Between De-Escalation And Death
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Chased Away
- Until The Pepper Spray
- Argumentum Ad Logicam: Just Don’t
- One Drink Isn’t Enough
- Tenants, Lawyers And Rights
- Loretta’s Gambit: Put Lipstick on Forensic Science
- Without The Video: The Worst Thing Charlotte Could Possibly Do
- Starting The Federal War Against Cyberharassment
- Fault Lines’ Holes: Plugs Needed
- Known Facts And Three Dead Black Males
- Nature v. Nutjob
- Cross: Walter Katz, Watching The Watchers
- Running Away Is The Only Reasonable Response
- The Pyrrhic Victory For The Disabled (Update)
- Terence Crutcher’s Deadly Breakdown
- Teacher Rapes 5 Students, Gets Probation
- Make Drunken Choices, Win Prizes
- Survivors Can’t Pay, Dammit
- Will All Law Be Business Law?
- One Law To Do It All
- Aren’t Lawyers Victims Too?
- Bail Weather: Naive With A Chance Of Good Intentions
- A Constitutional Right, Kensplained
- The Demon Constitution
- The Wells Fargo $124.6 Million
- Want Justice? Leave The Courthouse
- With The Right Demographics, A Judge Can’t Suck
- Cross: Seth Stoughton, Cop Turned Prawf
- A Contract of Social Justice Adhesion
- Disingenuous Dauber
- The Safety Of The Circle
- A Healthy Concern
- Empirical Sentencing: Weapons of Math Destruction?
- Not My 9/11
- Blame Michigan Prosecutors For SCOTUS’ Lousy Job
- The Object Of Virtuous Fury
- Dharun Ravi and the Criminal Element
- The Wells Fargo 5300
- Minnesota Suit Raises The Other Side Of Title IX (Update)
- Dwyer Digs A Shallow Grave For Brady
- Title IX’s False Expectations Hurt Too
- Mercy For Dylann Roof? The Government Argues No
- Cross: Nick Selby, A Cop At The Crossroad of Tech and Reform
- Past Performance Is A Good Indicator?
- Greta Van Susteren Leaves Fox, But So What?
- What Flavor Should The Supreme Court Be?
- Labor Day For Poor Kids
- Rick Horowitz Explained It, But Gene Haagenson Didn’t Care
- A Win Against Revenge Porn Makes Advocates Angry
- Academic Freedom And The Question Unasked
- Who’s Your Daddy (NY Edition)?
- How Much Is That Copper In The Window?
- Empty Gestures At Georgetown University
- 6th Circuit to Burleys: Tough Nuggies
- The Cost Of A Movie In Aurora, Colorado
August 2016
- I Didn’t Take Goose Baxter’s Britches
- The Guerrilla In The Law School Classroom
- Nasty Case Begets Even Nastier Defense
- Law Without Logic? No, Thank You
- Is Daytime Like No-Knock?
- A District Attorney’s Gotta Eat, You Know
- You Won’t Have Judge Persky To Kick Around Anymore
- The One Who Got Away
- Why Does Columbia Teachers College Hate “Black Boys”?
- The 6th Circuit Finally Said The Magic Word: Punitive
- Texas Hold ‘Em
- For Unworthy Defendants, Law Is Just A Technicality
- New York Times: Really Special Victims Unit
- Is San Diego Lawyer Mary Frances Prevost Unhinged?
- Dress Code At University of Chicago? Big Boy Pants (Update)
- Cross: Julie Stewart, Founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- Victim Blaming? So The Dentist Claims
- When Meanings Morph: Can Statutory Ambiguity Be Manufactured? (Update)
- Fix-It-Feds
- Battle Of The Sexes (Update)
- WaPo Beats The 1st Amendment Strawman To Death
- Killer Shrinks
- Sorority Girls* Make A Federal Case Of It
- It’s Not About The Tie: Transgender v. Religious Freedom
- Don’t Law Firms Even Care About Diversity?
- An Acquitted Black Man Is Guilty Because Gay Says So
- Who Argues For The Defense?
- Gawker Gone, A Eulogy
- Does Ambivalence Make It Murder?
- Tribe Finds His Shovel: Dig, Larry, Dig
- Formality, Its Reasons And Excuses
- Disbar Laurence Tribe (Update)
- Don’t Bank On It
- Apple Takes A Bite Out of Orwell
- The Wage Gap Meets The Reality Gap
- Culture Shock
- “Grow Up” Will Be On The Test
- The Stop That Got Away
- The Dilettante Judge
- The Olympics Of Race, Gender and Loathing
- “Legal Experts” And The “Heebie Jeebies” Of Killer Cops
- The Trouble With Avvo’s Ethics
- It’s Official, And That Changes Everything?
- Will All The Crying Bring Back Mandatory Minimums?
- Cross: LegalZoom Founder Eddie Hartman, A Lawyer’s Best Friend
- The Tyranny of Gertrude
- The ABA’s Standing Committee On Lawyers With One Eye
- Speak All You Want (But Get Away From Those Kids)
- The New York Daily News: They Were Wrong (And They Still Are)
- A White Polemic On Title IX And The Preponderance Standard
- Paul O’Neal, Dead But Not Recorded
- Honeypie, You Are Driving Me Crazy
- Don’t Tread On The Color Purple
- Hooray Female Olympians (and Title IX)
- The Plumber Problem
- No One More Than John MacKenzie, May He Rest In Peace
- Suddenly Unconstitutional
- Breathless Over Pantless
- The Transgender Strawman Is Stayed
- Jay Nixon, For The Defense
- Cross: Derwyn Bunton, Fighting For The Poor Of New Orleans
- Arrested For A Camera In The Courthouse Hallway
- True Threats And Jessica Valenti
- FIRE and Rain
- Nine Years After
- A Woman In The White House, Day 2
- Two Words Say It All: Body Bags
- The New Tolerance At University of Houston
July 2016
- Perv Cops, In A Class Of Their Own
- Columbia Was Just Serving Up What Its Customers Want
- The Cloud Ate The Unicorn
- The Legal Standard That Must Not Be Named
- Haunted By Poorly Written Criminal Laws
- Why Does The 7th Circuit Hate Gays?
- Jive Talkin’ And The Puff of Smoke
- Better To Light A Candle, Charles Blow
- Cross: Maggie McNeill, Making Law Sexy
- The Sweet Lies of Dallas
- Alexis Wartena Was Missing And Cops Took Charge
- If Only Cops Were More Like Customer Service Representatives
- Judge John Kane: The Penile Plethysmograph Is Nuts
- But Is It Leprosy?
- Love Me Some Law, NYC Edition
- The Dog Commanded Them To Rape
- The Force Is With The Austin Police
- Burton’s Button
- [Enter Default] President
- Harris County’s Devon Anderson Strips Naked
- P.O. Jonathan Aledda: A Cop’s Truth
- Kopf To Greenfield: You’re An Asshole SJW
- Without The Box, Employers Are Left With Naked Racism
- Grieving: Freddie Gray and Marilyn Mosby
- Obama To Police: “We Have Your Backs”
- Cross: Eric Mayer, Lawyer, Military-Grade
- This One Cool Trick Could Save Your Life
- Cynical Capture? Not All Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Gender Assignment and Re-Assignment, Okie Edition
- Too Much And Too Little Trust At A Very Reasonable Price
- The Aiders and Abetters With Shields
- Frustration, “Revolution” and Dead Bodies
- Beware The Loyal Opposition, ACLU Edition
- Pokemon Go Game Theory
- Truck Stop
- Politics Masquerading As Scholarship
- Rep. Jackie Speier Finally Reveals Her Scheme To Destroy The Internet (Update x2)
- The Dangling Conversation
- Killer Robots, Useful, Cheap and Ubiquitous
- A Baby Step Forward In The Bronx (And Two Giant Steps Back)
- Cross: T. Greg Doucette, From No House To The Senate
- Reading While Black (or Booked)
- The 9th Circuit Crafts A Bright Line Test For The CFAA
- Public Citizen Defends Chevron Deference
- Carl David Ceder: I Demand You Stop Making Me Cry!!!
- Good Gun, Bad Gun
- Whitewash And Blackwash: The False Equivalencies Of Tribes
- Desperately Seeking Shiny
- The Message Of Arresting @Deray In Baton Rouge
- No Gold Coin For Kelly Case
- Not Even For One Day, And Why Fault Lines Is Needed
- The First Rule of Policing And Five Dead Cops In Dallas
- The First Rule of Policing And Philando Castile
- The First Rule of Policing And Alton Sterling
- Cross: Mario Machado, From One Court To Another
- Why We Love “Reasonableness” Tests, And Why They Suck
- Hillary Clinton Will Be Tried For Her Conduct
- The Administration’s Last Gasp Effort To Eliminate Due Process
- The Ford Foundation Wants You To Buy Its Edsel
- The Hue And Cry Of Independence
- Judge Michalek’s Bad Choices
- Dear Judges, Love Nancy
- The Tone Police: Don’t Bernie Me, Bro
- The ACLU Backs Billy Madison Against The CFAA
- The TSA Must Go
- The New York Times Says Trust The Prosecutors
- Zir, Yes, Zir
June 2016
- A Prosecutor’s Sexual Frustration
- Stand And Deliver
- Cross: Roy Black, The Lawyer You Hope To Be
- The Other Starbucks Lawyer
- Dinner With Bob McDonnell
- The ABA Can’t Be Trusted
- The Constitutional Right We Love To Hate
- Dick, Dawn And Akhil: Why Don’t You Love Us Long Time? (Update)
- Hacking Makes Privacy Unreasonable? Meh (Upate)
- You Can’t Handle The Truth, Prosecutor Edition
- How’s That Crowdsourcing Working For You Now?
- One Less Twitter Follower For All The Wrong Reasons: @Ebolamerican
- Strict And Strictiness
- Saving Campus Due Process Isn’t A Game For Dilettantes
- No Pricks Allowed
- The Floyd Chronicles: With All Deliberate Speed
- Bringing Down The House
- Cross: Shon Hopwood, From Prisoner To SCOTUS To Scholar
- Lessons From A Dispassionate Judge: Focus On What Matters
- Rhode Island Revenge Porn Crime Gets Vetoed
- Drugs And Guns, Guns And Drugs, Whatever
- The Supreme Court’s Attenuation Deficit Disorder
- Good Bullet, Bad Bullet
- All The News That Fits The Orlando Narrative
- If Judge Persky Was Wrong, What’s Right?
- The Anti-Indulgent Post About You
- Damaging Things Stupid SJWs Twit For $1000, Alex
- The Constitution Matters In Texas, But Not As Much As Money
- The Size Of A Closet In East Cleveland
- Fashionably Biased
- The Invisible Westboro Baptist Church
- A NY Senator’s Silence
- An Imperfect Solution
- Fault Lines: A Few Federal Judges and You?
- Cross: Douglas Berman, The Final Sentence
- Gawker Uses Trump’s Hair To Make A First Amendment Point
- To Repeal An Amendment
- When @EFF Is Needed Most, There’s Nate Cardozo
- Hate Guns Enough And Any Argument Makes Sense (Update)
- The Price of Protection For An Underage Oakland Prostitute
- Cuomo At The Social Justice Intersection
- He Quit Twitter (And You Can Too!)
- Magnitudes of Pain And The Third-Party Doctrine
- Male In The Middle
- North Carolina Rejects Cyberbullying Law As Unconstitutional
- When The First Amendment Isn’t A Clearly Established Right
- Lawyer Fashionista: Tee Time Is Cop-Tastic!
- New York’s Prosecutors Agree, We’re Special
- Judge Aaron Persky And The Hypocrites’ Revenge
- When Confidential Meets The Crime-Fraud Exception And Conflict
- ERAD, Because It’s Not Just About The Cash (Update)
- A Mother’s Help At Lynn University
- Brock Turner’s Too Good Friend (Update)
- Silly Rabbit, Bathrooms Are For Kids
- Legal Ethics In The Age of Feelz: What Else You Got?
- Section 230 Does Not Absolve All Sins
- The Department of Justice Catching Up
- The Overlord Solution
- Making Sense of Corey Jones’ Senseless Death
- Why Does Jessica Valenti (And The New York Times) Hate The New Victims?
- Laws Without Rules
- Commencing Inspiration
- The Airbnb Of Simple Justice (Because Sharing Is Caring)
- Why Not #SayHerName?
- Circles And Squares Of Transgenders
- Cross: JoAnne Musick, Criminal Law From Both Sides Now
- Judge Maria Rosa’s Valiant Effort
- White Light In Front, Flashing Lights Behind
May 2016
- The Ganias 13, Or Why Evidence Is Forever
- The Prisoners’ Dilemma: The Exhaustion of Exhausting Remedies
- Memorial Day 2016
- If It’s “Constructive,” It’s Not Journalism
- Around The Jail In 80 Days: Andrew Domino Got Lucky
- Judge Block’s Curious Parsimony
- Nicholas Kristof And The Comfort of Ad Hominem
- Bond. Jane Bond
- The Team Sport of Criminal Defense
- Abelove Played The Gap And Sabotaged The Prosecution Of A Cop
- How Can You Tell When A Lawyer Is Lying?
- Eight Justices And A Balancing Test
- Peter Thiel, Hero Of The Big Lie (Update)
- Cross: Mark Bennett, Senior United States District Judge (N.D. Iowa)
- Peter Thiel Was Hulk Hogan’s Pay Pal
- Passionate Is Never An Excuse to Be Ineffective (Update)
- Why Does Heroin Make People Stupider?
- Race Neutral Reasons When Nothing Is Race Neutral
- The Tennessee Waltz Around Gideon
- The Word You’re Searching For Is “Lie”
- The Promised Rose Garden Wilts
- Trees, Forests and Clouds: The A2J Fantasy
- Sotomayor’s Empathy: Lawyers Pay The Price
- The Crime Of Leveling The Playing Field
- No Subreddit For Old Lawyers
- The “Right To Privacy” Sword Swings Both Ways
- Less Than “Great” Deference To Judge Posner
- The Dream Team, If Dream Means Failure
- Clearing The Backlog: Rape Kits To Nowhere
- Cross: Robin Steinberg, The Bronx Defender
- Judge Kneels And Welcomes His Governmental Overlords
- The Limits of Infallibility
- 13 Questions While The Poor Have No Lawyers
- Obama Takes The Easier Route: Forgiveness (Update)
- Silent Green
- Brooklyn Boilerplate Bites The Dust
- Comey’s Coward Cops
- Sexsplaining, Transgender Edition
- Beware The Morality Police
- When “Intent” Was Written Out Of The Model Penal Code
- Shelly Serves For Our Sins
- Discrimination Nation
- The Day Gym Class Got Really Weird (Update)
- The Missing Witness And The Rejected Plea
- NPR’s Shifty Push For Well Deserved Public Shaming Of Campus Rapists
- But For Video: The End Of The Chase (On Live TV)
- Cross: Elie Mystal, From Salacious Gossip To Slaying Dragons
- Fault Lines: Two Judges, No Waiting
- The Other Dark Meat
- Bronx Defenders Sues To End Insufferable Delays (Update)
- The War on Drugs Is Not Dead Yet
- The Transgender Question On The Table
- Utah Struggles With Virginity: Punishing A Prosecutor For The First Time
- Randazza’s Anti-SLAPP Would Make No Sound In New York
- Hating Redskins
- Person Who Was Convicted Of A Felony (Formerly Known As Felon)
- The Three Most Important Things to Know About Making A Citizen’s Arrest
- Harvard Men
- Shira Scheindlin: More Judges, Better Judges
- A Lie Too Far?
- The ABA And Its Favorite Flavor Of Ethics
- North Carolina Meets The Rule of Bureaucrats
- The Category Is Before And After: Details Of The Shooting Remain Sparse
- Cross: District of Colorado Senior Judge John Kane
- The 800 Lb. Doggie In The Harris County Jury Room
- Next Generation, Zealousness or Happiness; Pick Your Poison
- Turley’s War on the Skies (and everywhere else)
- Rule 41, When Any Judge Will Do
- The UnConviction: Why DPAs Don’t Fit The Rhetoric
- The Pong of Law
- Feelings, Deconstructed
- Critically Acclaimed Investigative Journalist Steven I. Weiss Clearly Proves Jeff Jarvis
- When Empiricism Fails To Produce The Outcome “Everybody Knows”
April 2016
- Ray Kelly: Disinvited (But Still Full Of Shit)
- Mocking The Victim, The Indigent Defendant
- The Constitution, Huffington Post Version
- Mind The Gap: Outrage For The Wrong Reason Redux
- Satire And Baekdal’s Sad Feelings For Jeff Jarvis
- When Felons Vote
- Cross: Cathy Young, Fighting For The Mind of Feminism
- But For Judges, They Wouldn’t Be Dead In The Name Of Science
- The Killer Tomato’s Revenge
- What A Difference A Day Makes, Kansas Edition
- Is “Under No Circumstances” Acceptable, Judge?
- When Is Enough Enough? Finality v. Legitimacy
- Why A New York Law Office?
- But Comments Can Be Mean and Hateful
- Corey Who?
- And The Cancer Spreads: DoJ Orders UNM To Violate First Amendment
- Making The Nasty Sausage of Constitutional Rights
- The Impactfulness of Generational Collaborationalism in Lawspace
- Campus Follies Round-Up
- Beware The Dictum: The 4th Circuit’s Discovery Of The Meaning Of Sex
- Level Two Lies: Because The FBI Can’t Trust Prosecutors
- Insulting In Rhode Island
- Reader Mailbag Volume 127
- Know Precedent; Preserve Issues; Make Precedent
- Cross: Cristian Farias, From Fault Lines To The Supreme Court
- Scorched Earth Defense Burns Government (This Time)
- Can Andrew Miltenberg Bring An End To The DoE’s Rape Reign (Update x2)
- Full of Grit
- The Killing Continues, And No One Cares
- The Letter From Hell
- Innocence, Before and After
- The Urinal Wars
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Knowledge
- The Avenging Sword of Safe Space
- Scrutiny Lost: Eric Garner Prosecutor Gets A Pass
- This Is Your Brain On Speed
- UC Davis’ Return of the Pepper Spray
- Do It Once, Get It Right
- Too Little Due Process, Too Much Deference
- The Standard in Aiken? Give Cop Rape A Break
- As Go Comments, So Goes Above The Law
- Cross: Ellen Yaroshefsky, In The Trenches of Criminal Law Ethics
- Recreating History: The Notorious 1994 Crime Bill
- Scared Straight: But It Seemed Like Such A Good Idea
- Evan’s Law: Just Not A Big Deal
- Cop Shock: Even Child Molestation Gets A Pass
- Safe Space On Wheels
- The Waiter, The Thiel Fellow
- Monetizing OPC Isn’t Brave
- Why Waiver Won’t Work
- The Syndrome, The Shaken Baby Witch Hunt
- Appreciating Gender Studies
- But For Video: Skeptics Edition
- Government To Apple: We’re Ba-aa-ack
- Owen Labrie Will Not Go Down Quietly; Nor Should He
- The CEI Subpoena Cannot Stand
- Ye Of Too Much Faith (In Juries)
- Welcome To The Rap Sheet California
- Cross: Alex Bunin, Getting Public Defense Right
- Operators Used To Be Standing By
- WhatsApp and What’s Next?
- Rolling Stone’s “Jackie”: Deposed, But Still Too Precious
- The Other Black Face Problem
- The Privacy Lie
- Princeton Responds
- Plea Bargain Like A Pro
- Meet Your Future Sexual Predator
- The Irony of Brandeis
- Demands and Enlightened Self-Interest
- Claiming Harvard Law
- Rehabilitating Atticus (Update)
- Does Donald Trump Suddenly Look A Half Billion Thinner? (Update, Of Course)
- Sanetastic! Get A Grip On Your [Ableist Slur] Bias
- The Sweet Smell of Revenge
- Blame The Teacher (Update)
March 2016
- Kagan’s Dissent: Overrule Monsanto
- When The MPAA Makes Sense
- Cross: Mark Bennett, Have Speech, Will Travel
- Traitor To The Cause
- The Miami Public Defender’s Close-Up
- The Textualist’s Dilemma On Social Media
- Masculinity Redefined: The Manly Man’s Man
- Ferentz Lafargue, Wanted For Murder
- There Is No Vaccination For [Ableist Slur]
- But For Video: Getting Grounded Edition
- Men With Guns (and that scares Heidi Czerwiec) (Update)
- Welcome To Buffalo, Elijah Bethel
- A Tale Of Two Grills
- No Mail Today
- An Official Fantasy of Title IX
- Cutting Crime With Backward Policing
- The “Real” Pain At Emory
- Witness For The Prosecution: Ghomeshi Acquitted
- Winky Law
- The Death Spiral of Legal Knowledge
- Cross: Andrew King, The Prosecutor Comes Clean
- Judge Richard Kopf Saves A Child From SORA
- Drugs, Nixon and the Big Lie
- The Joys of Blawging
- U.S. v. Apple: Never Mind
- Tennessee’s Martin Daniel Gets It
- Too Late For Labrie
- A Very Captive Audience
- Meet Mr. Telephone
- The Empty “Lavabit” Threat
- Hulk v. Gawker: The Chill From Tampa
- Fault Lines: The Next Generation
- Regime Change For Prosecutors
- But He Wrote “Girls”!!!
- Fault Lines Feedback
- A Free Press And The Ickiness of Newsworthiness (Update)
- The Proctologist On The Supreme Court
- The False Accusation Excuse: Discuss Killing Yourself?
- Politics, The New Cure For Mental Health
- The Merrick Garland Gambit
- Judge Gleeson Has Left The Building
- Cross: Ron Kuby, The Dude’s Radical Lawyer
- A Legal Fiction, Among Many
- DEA Fails, But Can Jamie Hunt Be Trusted To Fix It?
- Staking Your Life On Siri
- Hey, Where The White Women At?
- Wright and Wrong: 23 Years Later, A Totally New Theory of Prosecution
- Nungesser’s “Mattress Girl” Suit Dismissed
- Trump, Speech and the Crucible of Anger
- The Death of the Boys’ Club
- ObamaPhone
- No Free Pass For The Brooklyn IHOP Robin Hood
- Criminal Defense Lawyer Down
- Floyd Abrams and Institutional Memory
- The Superpowers of Captain Privilege
- When Good Science Goes Bad
- Cross: Greg Lukianoff, Lighting The First Amendment FIRE On Campus
- Bad Words
- NYPD: At Least We Didn’t Kill Him
- Black Voices Save Black Lives: Don’t Blow It
- The Government’s Next Bite of the Apple
- The Police Commissioner Was Not Amused (Update)
- The Hard “No”
- It’s Not Courtesy If He Kills You
- The Glacier of Title IX
- The Laundry List Approach: How To Bury Your Failed Position
- No Woody Wilson Way At Stanford
- A Living Wage
- DoJ To Toddlers: You Can Do It!!!
- Fault Lines: Principle and Painful Choices
- Naked And Afraid: The Compliance Conundrum
- Another Rape Accusation. Another Gang of Five
- Academic Freedom And Insanity
- Unteaching Cops: Easier To Say Than Do
- Cross: Jon Rapping, Doing Everything He Can To Keep Gideon’s Promise
- Apple And The Magistrate’s Conspiracy
- Affirmative Consent And The Fuzzy Legal Standard
- Castille’s Big Win
- Safe Space For Dummies
February 2016
- Help Wanted, Women Need Not Apply
- An Illegitimate Free Speech Debate
- Victims Are Not The New Heroes
- ? ? ? In The First Degree
- Help Wanted (Update)
- Lessons On Sister Kicking
- Trading Places: The White Faces Of Power
- The Fifth Circuit And The First Rule
- Playing “Gotcha” With Privacy
- Law Writing 101: Don’t Make People Stupider
- United States v. Apple: Hearts v. Minds
- Remanded To Fantasy Island
- Cross: Mike Cernovich, The 800 lb. Gorilla Lawyer
- One Click, Two Clicks, Melissa Click
- Grassley’s Anticipatory Repudiation
- Ronald Collins: The Marketplace Of Ideologies
- Bennett’s Smart Argument Needed A Smart Judge
- An Easy Case Before A Hard Court
- Does The New York Times Now Hate Illegals And The Poor?
- Comey & Victims: Can You Look Them In The Eye?
- Why Robert Stacy McCain?
- Why Did The ABA Journal Go Full Tilt On GamerGate?
- It’s A Hard Knock Life, At Brown
- US v. Apple: The Government Seizes The Narrative (Critical Update)
- Fools Have Rules: The Two Shot Rule
- Hate Is Not An Excuse For RooshV False Rape Claim
- Milbank To Harvard Law SJWs: You Blew It
- Defendants The ACLU Loves To Hate
- The Last Bite of Apple’s iPhone
- Cross: Marc Randazza, First Amendment Badass
- Larry Summers Says Cash Sucks
- The Department of Homeland Apple
- Twitter: A Turd In The Pool
- An Appellate Decision, “In The Worst Possible Taste”
- Win Or Lose, You Pay
- Is “Ignore” A Constitutional Option? (Update)
- The Fetish of 149
- Justice Antonin Scalia Will Be Remembered
- Nine Very Long Years
- Stuart Gibson’s Really Bad Idea
- Ebony In Ivory: Delusions and Lies About Arrest
- Sexism at LegalTech?
- P.O. Liang Convicted, And No One Was Saved
- How Fair Is Too Fair?
- Cassell To Obama: Do What I Failed To Do
- Alt-Constitution: The Fantasy Game
- Cross: Josh Kendrick, The Defense Works Late
- Ted Nugent’s Mouth And Madeleine Albright’s Tongue
- Candid Camera And Search Warrants
- A Day To Remember (Fun Stuff)
- To A Lawprof’s Credit, Where Due
- ABA Hops Aboard The Speeding Train As It’s Crashing
- Tasers And The Worthless Confession
- FOIA And The Quick Buck
- The Fatso Chronicles
- Who’s To Blame For Reform’s Two “Hostages”
- LeGrier’s Killer Tries Tactical Chutzpah*
- Because The ABA Isn’t Irrelevant Enough
- The All-Inclusive “Big Cheese” Solution
- Reasonable In Cleveland
- Last Stop, Wall Street
- Does That GPS Match Your Socks?
- The Language Formerly Known As English (Calvin & Hobbes Update)
- Ugly, But Unfair
- Cross: Mike Masnick, Digging Up Dirt On More Than Tech
- Passports Of The Damned (Update x2)
- The Sophisticated Client Wants A Legal Curmudgeon
- Empty Gestures And Powerful Messages
- If You Have Nothing To Hide
- The Rest Of Your Unnatural Life
January 2016
- The Parsimonious Judge Jack Weinstein
- The Meaning Of Job
- Because It’s Pimptastic, And I’m An Admiral
- All For One, And None For The Monkey
- Grieving Dr. Rosalind Griffin
- How Feminist Dogma Creates More Girl-Crime
- Elizabeth Warren And The New Fearmongering
- Lewinski, Revealed
- Tag, You’re Screwed
- On Writing: Dazzle Or Baffle
- 4th Circuit: Tasers Hurt. A Lot
- Riding Orin Kerr’s Law Enforcement Trolley
- Cross: Walter Olson, A Good Lawyer’s Best Friend
- Unplanned Parenthood: Law Triumphs Over Politics
- The Make-Believe World Of Police Policy
- Back To Basics: Rape Is Not A Title IX Violation
- The Curious Quiet Around Peter Liang
- Broken Windows Lite
- Good Cop, Bad Cop: When The FBI Gets Into The Kiddie Porn Biz
- A Second Chance, For the Judge
- An Apology Owed To District Attorney Robert James
- Because Thinking Is Too Damn Hard
- Unreasonably Foreseeable To A Drunk
- Quasi-Criminal, But They Keep Promising To Be Fair
- Don’t Blame Judge Judy That Students Are Clueless
- Beg Your Pardon
- Cross: Marcy Wheeler, The NSA’s Worst Nightmare
- Patrick Zarrelli Tests The Stupidity Of The Internet
- Tinkering With The Mechanics Of Death (Of Public Sector Unions)
- If It’s A Loophole, It Must Be Closed
- The ACLU Is Totally Wrong, But Completely Right
- The Sweet Fumes of Chevron
- Nice Judgment You Got There, But You Still Have To Collect
- The Other Big House
- Is Northwestern’s President, Morton Schapiro, A Moron?
- Crazy Campus Consent Conundrum Collapses
- No, Not Free Speech
- Rubbed Wrong
- Sad Harvard Tears
- Nutralife
- Dear @RobbySoave: I’m Here For You
- Avvo’s Lawyer For Sale
- Consistency-Я-Us
- A College Education Of Little Use
- The Big Kahuna To Judges: You’re Not Special Either
- Innocence Project of Texas: Mission Aborted
- Cross: Noel Erinjeri, The Guy In Front Of The Tank
- Greenfield, I Pick You
- Judge Cain’s Really Awful, Humiliating Poem
- Finding What You’re Looking For
- In Place Of Torts, Social Justice
- Dead Men Walking
- Twitter de Milo
- 113 Stories and the Law of Feelz
- The Stress Hug
- “Making A Murderer”: Any Love Is Good Love?
- The Death Gap
- Naked And Afraid: The Grand Jury To Meet Anthony Hill’s Killer
- Fault Lines: The Force Awakens
- Great News! The Law School Crisis Is Over!
- The Price Of Mistrust
- Ron McGuire: To Be Impoverished By Fighting The Good Fight
- To Protect And Serve, Or Not
- Would You Be A Tool To Validate A Tool?
- The Weakest Sex
- How To Survive Prison
- Hammond’s Sentence: Just A Banal Miscarriage of Justice
- Is “Necessity” The Answer To Stop Police Murder?
- When The Castle Doctrine Goes Through A Steel Door
- Progressing. Toward Misery?
- Black Lives Matter; Thinking Does Too
- Just Because He’s Not Guilty
- Resolute Defenders Of Free Speech (Update)
- 2015 Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post
- Hey, Hey, Hey: It’s Guilty Cosby!
- Balko or Kerr: Reading Tea Leaves