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2016

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December 2016

  1. Is There A Logic Of Empathy? A Thought To End 2016
  2. A Twit Of Treason
  3. Those Who Can, Do
  4. Free Speech, ACLU Conditions Apply
  5. Starting A War On The Way Out The Door
  6. The Internets of Ars Miranda
  7. Normalizing Lists, Depriving Rights
  8. Privacy? What’s Not To Like?
  9. All That’s Wrong In Evangeline Parish
  10. The “White Genocide” Litmus Test
  11. Unchosen Guardians Of Our Civil Liberties
  12. The Point Of A Museum
  13. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah
  14. The Meaning of The Day
  15. A Tale Of Two Senators
  16. Nancy Shurtz And The Trauma Of The Extended Victim (Update)
  17. Seeing, Believing, Technology
  18. Believe The Victim (Because He’s Dead)
  19. Minnesota Football: Is It Belief Or Evidence?
  20. Good Cop, Bad Cop, Drunk Cop
  21. Woman Of The House
  22. Cross: Justice Mark Dwyer, From Wingman To Law Man
  23. Big Words, Big Thoughts (Update)
  24. Loyola Chicago Students Outraged At Pre-Guilty Rapist
  25. Above And Beyond? Reasonable Doubt Is Unethical
  26. An Homage To The Electoral College
  27. Nominations Are Open For the 2016 Best Criminal Law Blawg Post
  28. Longer Sentences, The “Best You Can Get”
  29. He Sang “Girls”!!! (Update)
  30. Whiter and Brighter, The Hidden Identity
  31. Jeff Sessions Sucks (And So Can You)
  32. Believe Victims Or Evidence: When You Can’t Do Both
  33. Friends, Friends, Friends, We Will Always Be
  34. Ten Pints Between Friends
  35. It’s In The Mail (Update)
  36. Did I Say “Thank You”?
  37. The Intransigent Judge Rayford Means (Update)
  38. Game Theory: Twit For Tat
  39. Cross: Brad Heath, Where Legal Journalism And Investigative Reporting Meet
  40. When Suppression Is A Hollow Victory: The Password Exception To Miranda
  41. After The Reform Applause Dies
  42. Education’s Philosophical Fantasy Fixes Fail
  43. Magic Words And The Missouri Supreme Court
  44. Nullification Isn’t Tantamount To Murder
  45. No Duty To Die (Update)
  46. Toughen Up, Teacup, If You Want To Write
  47. The Burden Of Post-Factual Proof
  48. Is British Airways’ New Idea Tough To Swallow?
  49. The Sanctum Santorum: Striking Fear In The Lecture Hall
  50. The Final Freedom For Your Own Good
  51. Rep. Jackie Speier Explains Why Your Son’s Life Should Be Destroyed
  52. Reflections On Other People’s Years
  53. Israel To BDS: Complain All You Want, But Not Here
  54. Judges Of A Lesser God
  55. The American Bar Association, 1878-2016
  56. Will Dueling Guidance Sink The Transgender Agenda?
  57. Facebook: Ripe For Revenge
  58. Cross: Jonathan Adler, Focusing On The Crush Of Regulation
  59. Banzhaff On The Adorable Unicorns of GWU
  60. Anti-Semitism And The Senate’s Really Bad Law
  61. Gupta Gets Religion: What Have The Feds Done About It?
  62. Crime Fluid
  63. Arrested Because The Computer Said So
  64. Newton’s Third Law Of Outrage
  65. Rape By Emotional Manipulation
  66. The Incredible, Edible ACLU Chimes In
  67. Don’t Hang Michael Slager
  68. Really? Yes, Really, You’re Part of Your Problem
  69. The Downside To A Public Defender’s Principled Position
  70. Because Everybody Loves Lists?
  71. Illegals: Law, Language & Policy

November 2016

  1. Cross: Sheriff Russell Martin, Restoring Integrity In Delaware County, Ohio
  2. The Unreasonable Expectations Of Authority
  3. Regulating The Fake News Marketplace
  4. Fault Lines: Law Student Division
  5. Taser’s Body Cams Extra Special Feature
  6. The “Regular Guy” Goes To Washington
  7. California Lawyers Dreaming (About Sex With Clients)
  8. The Solution To Fake News Is Progressive News
  9. Mindfulness When The Moment Kinda Sucks (Update)
  10. The Killing Seemed So Important At The Time
  11. Shelter From The Storm
  12. The Business Transaction Called “Dinner” At 1300 On Fillmore
  13. Talking Thanks, Hearing Thanks
  14. Baby You Can Drive My Car
  15. Can Kiddies Consent?
  16. Lawyers Left And Model Rule 8.4(g)
  17. When @POTUS Twits
  18. Misogyny And Everything Is Violence
  19. Double Points In The Lincoln Bedroom
  20. The All-Star Team Of Evil
  21. Guest Post: See Something, Say Something (Like Bullshit)
  22. A (Relatively) Open Thread: Identity First (Update x2)
  23. The $2 Chemist Rule
  24. There Is No “Morality” Exception
  25. But Korematsu? Never Again
  26. Aggravated Felonies And Aggravating Hysteria
  27. The Future Of OCR’s Dear Colleague
  28. Stuck In The Middle With You
  29. Cross: Dara Lind, Keeping Criminal & Immigration Law Honest At Vox
  30. When Batson Bumps Into the Sixth Amendment
  31. Dog Whistling Past The White House
  32. The News That’s Fit To Print
  33. The Dangling Nomination
  34. The Tech Solution To The Bail Problem
  35. An 80-20% Discussion
  36. Twitter, Twitter, Gab, Gab, Gab
  37. Blood On The Tracks
  38. The Clueless Constitution: Welcome Aboard
  39. Stop Crying Long Enough To Blame
  40. Forfeiture Of The DNA Indictment
  41. The Trauma Of Your First Loss
  42. Job? Definitely. Gun? Well…
  43. Sex Crimes Meet Whenever
  44. The New Nine: Make The Supreme Court Legitimate Again
  45. America Pressed Reset
  46. Someone Who Should Never Judge
  47. 2016 Go Your Own Way
  48. The Worst Innocence Argument Ever
  49. For The Lesser Good
  50. The Exhausted Overlord
  51. Harvard Blows The Teaching Moment
  52. A Blogging Bully And Bail
  53. Crime and Punishment In Blackface
  54. Cold, Cold Calls
  55. A Bronx Without Books
  56. No Home For University of Minnesota Football Players
  57. Cross: Drew Whitney Morgan, The Verdict is Comedy
  58. The Tranny and the Crank Case
  59. Spies And Lies: Judge Haight Tries To Clean Up His Mess
  60. Nothing? Why Yes, Nothing

October 2016

  1. A Bold, But Unemployed, Academic
  2. Screw Jim Comey, Burn The Witch
  3. One Door Down
  4. Suzanne Hooper, Entitled And Angry
  5. Comey And The Death Of Quaint Rectitude
  6. Valuing Life: The Conundrum
  7. What Can Diversity Teach Us?
  8. Virtually Horrifying
  9. Houston Judge Mary Lou Keel’s Bizarre Hissy Fit (Update)
  10. Clarence Thomas Suffers The Moira Smith Lesson
  11. Faux Feminists And Mission Creep
  12. The Late, Great Third Branch
  13. Cross: Alan Gura, The Lawyer Who Changed The Second Amendment
  14. Teacups In The Trenches
  15. Funding The Entitlement Problem
  16. Will Art Acevedo’s Rant Change Anything?
  17. The Eric Garner Rift Grows Wider (Update)
  18. Ways To Think (Max Planck Edition)
  19. Rape, Incest And Retribution
  20. The Dead, The Living And The Dots
  21. The Surreal Unpleasantness of Going Viral
  22. Fishing For Pleas
  23. Danner’s Death And The Great Divide
  24. When The Only Word That Means Anything Is The “Hat”
  25. PENsplaining Away The First Amendment
  26. The Price of Logic (In The Age of Emotion)
  27. Grace And The Bloodless Coup
  28. Cross: Bryan Garner, The Last Word On Legal Writing
  29. Sotomayor’s Baseball Bat
  30. Fear of Flying
  31. Don’t Schmerber Me, Bro
  32. IACP Says “Sorry For Racism,” Everybody Hugs
  33. The Commuter’s Dilemma
  34. Blow Is Only A Figure Of Speech
  35. Locker Room Talking
  36. Lay Lady Lay
  37. Linda Greenhouse: Love The Legislature of Nine
  38. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Fall From Grace (and resurrection?)
  39. Never Forget That Face (Or That Penis)
  40. Trump, Times And The Dance Of The Lawyer Letters
  41. Judge Andre Birotte Jr. Enables Yom Kippur Attack
  42. Names in the News, Volume 1
  43. Assault By Twitter In The First Degree
  44. The Anti-Toxic Masculinity President
  45. Cross: Ex-Seattle Chief Norm Stamper, Still Breaking Ranks
  46. The Legal System’s Naivete Gap
  47. Principled Is Only Great If You’re Alive
  48. To Win The Presidency, Sacrifice Law
  49. Supreme Court’s Short, Sleepy and Conflicted Term
  50. That “Somebody” Who Will Fix This
  51. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson, RIP
  52. Sentenced In The Court Of Sad Feelz
  53. An Over-Taxing Question About Being Smart
  54. What Darren Smith Said
  55. The Feds Will Save Us
  56. Didn’t You Realize He Was The Snake?
  57. Based Upon Training And Experience
  58. Return of the Killer Trophies
  59. What Not To Wear, SJW Halloween Edition
  60. Louis Stokes And An Unreasonable Articulable Suspicion
  61. Cross: John Pfaff, Challenging Conventional Wisdom To End Overincarceration
  62. UT Prof Bill Deane Takes A Swan Dive Into Gender Chaos Theory (Update)
  63. Kansas City Librarian Takes A Knee For The Constitution
  64. Abreast Of Offense
  65. But For Video: A Totally Ordinary Arrest
  66. Automation Nation
  67. Book Review: Twisting Title IX
  68. Free Pepe
  69. Not Today
  70. Whose Problem?
  71. @Instapundit and Twitter, The “Crystal Meth of Social Media”
  72. The Jude Cause And The Ferguson Effect

September 2016

  1. Headless Nations: The Next Wave Of Drug Violence
  2. Housekeeping: It’s (not) In The Mail
  3. On Climate Change, The Answer Is Obvious
  4. Once An Expert
  5. Under Pressure: A Failed Campaign’s Emails Of Tears
  6. Cross: Carol O’Brien, Because There Are Bad People Out There
  7. When It’s Personal, The Virtues Of Due Process Become Clear
  8. “Manterrupting” Or Equality: Pick One
  9. Sex Offenders International
  10. The Social Justice Inquisition Murdered Harambe (Update)
  11. The Thin Line Between De-Escalation And Death
  12. Dead Men Tell No Tales
  13. Chased Away
  14. Until The Pepper Spray
  15. Argumentum Ad Logicam: Just Don’t
  16. One Drink Isn’t Enough
  17. Tenants, Lawyers And Rights
  18. Loretta’s Gambit: Put Lipstick on Forensic Science
  19. Without The Video: The Worst Thing Charlotte Could Possibly Do
  20. Starting The Federal War Against Cyberharassment
  21. Fault Lines’ Holes: Plugs Needed
  22. Known Facts And Three Dead Black Males
  23. Nature v. Nutjob
  24. Cross: Walter Katz, Watching The Watchers
  25. Running Away Is The Only Reasonable Response
  26. The Pyrrhic Victory For The Disabled (Update)
  27. Terence Crutcher’s Deadly Breakdown
  28. Teacher Rapes 5 Students, Gets Probation
  29. Make Drunken Choices, Win Prizes
  30. Survivors Can’t Pay, Dammit
  31. Will All Law Be Business Law?
  32. One Law To Do It All
  33. Aren’t Lawyers Victims Too?
  34. Bail Weather: Naive With A Chance Of Good Intentions
  35. A Constitutional Right, Kensplained
  36. The Demon Constitution
  37. The Wells Fargo $124.6 Million
  38. Want Justice? Leave The Courthouse
  39. With The Right Demographics, A Judge Can’t Suck
  40. Cross: Seth Stoughton, Cop Turned Prawf
  41. A Contract of Social Justice Adhesion
  42. Disingenuous Dauber
  43. The Safety Of The Circle
  44. A Healthy Concern
  45. Empirical Sentencing: Weapons of Math Destruction?
  46. Not My 9/11
  47. Blame Michigan Prosecutors For SCOTUS’ Lousy Job
  48. The Object Of Virtuous Fury
  49. Dharun Ravi and the Criminal Element
  50. The Wells Fargo 5300
  51. Minnesota Suit Raises The Other Side Of Title IX (Update)
  52. Dwyer Digs A Shallow Grave For Brady
  53. Title IX’s False Expectations Hurt Too
  54. Mercy For Dylann Roof? The Government Argues No
  55. Cross: Nick Selby, A Cop At The Crossroad of Tech and Reform
  56. Past Performance Is A Good Indicator?
  57. Greta Van Susteren Leaves Fox, But So What?
  58. What Flavor Should The Supreme Court Be?
  59. Labor Day For Poor Kids
  60. Rick Horowitz Explained It, But Gene Haagenson Didn’t Care
  61. A Win Against Revenge Porn Makes Advocates Angry
  62. Academic Freedom And The Question Unasked
  63. Who’s Your Daddy (NY Edition)?
  64. How Much Is That Copper In The Window?
  65. Empty Gestures At Georgetown University
  66. 6th Circuit to Burleys: Tough Nuggies
  67. The Cost Of A Movie In Aurora, Colorado

August 2016

  1. I Didn’t Take Goose Baxter’s Britches
  2. The Guerrilla In The Law School Classroom
  3. Nasty Case Begets Even Nastier Defense
  4. Law Without Logic? No, Thank You
  5. Is Daytime Like No-Knock?
  6. A District Attorney’s Gotta Eat, You Know
  7. You Won’t Have Judge Persky To Kick Around Anymore
  8. The One Who Got Away
  9. Why Does Columbia Teachers College Hate “Black Boys”?
  10. The 6th Circuit Finally Said The Magic Word: Punitive
  11. Texas Hold ‘Em
  12. For Unworthy Defendants, Law Is Just A Technicality
  13. New York Times: Really Special Victims Unit
  14. Is San Diego Lawyer Mary Frances Prevost Unhinged?
  15. Dress Code At University of Chicago? Big Boy Pants (Update)
  16. Cross: Julie Stewart, Founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums
  17. Victim Blaming? So The Dentist Claims
  18. When Meanings Morph: Can Statutory Ambiguity Be Manufactured? (Update)
  19. Fix-It-Feds
  20. Battle Of The Sexes (Update)
  21. WaPo Beats The 1st Amendment Strawman To Death
  22. Killer Shrinks
  23. Sorority Girls* Make A Federal Case Of It
  24. It’s Not About The Tie: Transgender v. Religious Freedom
  25. Don’t Law Firms Even Care About Diversity?
  26. An Acquitted Black Man Is Guilty Because Gay Says So
  27. Who Argues For The Defense?
  28. Gawker Gone, A Eulogy
  29. Does Ambivalence Make It Murder?
  30. Tribe Finds His Shovel: Dig, Larry, Dig
  31. Formality, Its Reasons And Excuses
  32. Disbar Laurence Tribe (Update)
  33. Don’t Bank On It
  34. Apple Takes A Bite Out of Orwell
  35. The Wage Gap Meets The Reality Gap
  36. Culture Shock
  37. “Grow Up” Will Be On The Test
  38. The Stop That Got Away
  39. The Dilettante Judge
  40. The Olympics Of Race, Gender and Loathing
  41. “Legal Experts” And The “Heebie Jeebies” Of Killer Cops
  42. The Trouble With Avvo’s Ethics
  43. It’s Official, And That Changes Everything?
  44. Will All The Crying Bring Back Mandatory Minimums?
  45. Cross: LegalZoom Founder Eddie Hartman, A Lawyer’s Best Friend
  46. The Tyranny of Gertrude
  47. The ABA’s Standing Committee On Lawyers With One Eye
  48. Speak All You Want (But Get Away From Those Kids)
  49. The New York Daily News: They Were Wrong (And They Still Are)
  50. A White Polemic On Title IX And The Preponderance Standard
  51. Paul O’Neal, Dead But Not Recorded
  52. Honeypie, You Are Driving Me Crazy
  53. Don’t Tread On The Color Purple
  54. Hooray Female Olympians (and Title IX)
  55. The Plumber Problem
  56. No One More Than John MacKenzie, May He Rest In Peace
  57. Suddenly Unconstitutional
  58. Breathless Over Pantless
  59. The Transgender Strawman Is Stayed
  60. Jay Nixon, For The Defense
  61. Cross: Derwyn Bunton, Fighting For The Poor Of New Orleans
  62. Arrested For A Camera In The Courthouse Hallway
  63. True Threats And Jessica Valenti
  64. FIRE and Rain
  65. Nine Years After
  66. A Woman In The White House, Day 2
  67. Two Words Say It All: Body Bags
  68. The New Tolerance At University of Houston

July 2016

  1. Perv Cops, In A Class Of Their Own
  2. Columbia Was Just Serving Up What Its Customers Want
  3. The Cloud Ate The Unicorn
  4. The Legal Standard That Must Not Be Named
  5. Haunted By Poorly Written Criminal Laws
  6. Why Does The 7th Circuit Hate Gays?
  7. Jive Talkin’ And The Puff of Smoke
  8. Better To Light A Candle, Charles Blow
  9. Cross: Maggie McNeill, Making Law Sexy
  10. The Sweet Lies of Dallas
  11. Alexis Wartena Was Missing And Cops Took Charge
  12. If Only Cops Were More Like Customer Service Representatives
  13. Judge John Kane: The Penile Plethysmograph Is Nuts
  14. But Is It Leprosy?
  15. Love Me Some Law, NYC Edition
  16. The Dog Commanded Them To Rape
  17. The Force Is With The Austin Police
  18. Burton’s Button
  19. [Enter Default] President
  20. Harris County’s Devon Anderson Strips Naked
  21. P.O. Jonathan Aledda: A Cop’s Truth
  22. Kopf To Greenfield: You’re An Asshole SJW
  23. Without The Box, Employers Are Left With Naked Racism
  24. Grieving: Freddie Gray and Marilyn Mosby
  25. Obama To Police: “We Have Your Backs”
  26. Cross: Eric Mayer, Lawyer, Military-Grade
  27. This One Cool Trick Could Save Your Life
  28. Cynical Capture? Not All Criminal Defense Lawyers
  29. Gender Assignment and Re-Assignment, Okie Edition
  30. Too Much And Too Little Trust At A Very Reasonable Price
  31. The Aiders and Abetters With Shields
  32. Frustration, “Revolution” and Dead Bodies
  33. Beware The Loyal Opposition, ACLU Edition
  34. Pokemon Go Game Theory
  35. Truck Stop
  36. Politics Masquerading As Scholarship
  37. Rep. Jackie Speier Finally Reveals Her Scheme To Destroy The Internet (Update x2)
  38. The Dangling Conversation
  39. Killer Robots, Useful, Cheap and Ubiquitous
  40. A Baby Step Forward In The Bronx (And Two Giant Steps Back)
  41. Cross: T. Greg Doucette, From No House To The Senate
  42. Reading While Black (or Booked)
  43. The 9th Circuit Crafts A Bright Line Test For The CFAA
  44. Public Citizen Defends Chevron Deference
  45. Carl David Ceder: I Demand You Stop Making Me Cry!!!
  46. Good Gun, Bad Gun
  47. Whitewash And Blackwash: The False Equivalencies Of Tribes
  48. Desperately Seeking Shiny
  49. The Message Of Arresting @Deray In Baton Rouge
  50. No Gold Coin For Kelly Case
  51. Not Even For One Day, And Why Fault Lines Is Needed
  52. The First Rule of Policing And Five Dead Cops In Dallas
  53. The First Rule of Policing And Philando Castile
  54. The First Rule of Policing And Alton Sterling
  55. Cross: Mario Machado, From One Court To Another
  56. Why We Love “Reasonableness” Tests, And Why They Suck
  57. Hillary Clinton Will Be Tried For Her Conduct
  58. The Administration’s Last Gasp Effort To Eliminate Due Process
  59. The Ford Foundation Wants You To Buy Its Edsel
  60. The Hue And Cry Of Independence
  61. Judge Michalek’s Bad Choices
  62. Dear Judges, Love Nancy
  63. The Tone Police: Don’t Bernie Me, Bro
  64. The ACLU Backs Billy Madison Against The CFAA
  65. The TSA Must Go
  66. The New York Times Says Trust The Prosecutors
  67. Zir, Yes, Zir

June 2016

  1. A Prosecutor’s Sexual Frustration
  2. Stand And Deliver
  3. Cross: Roy Black, The Lawyer You Hope To Be
  4. The Other Starbucks Lawyer
  5. Dinner With Bob McDonnell
  6. The ABA Can’t Be Trusted
  7. The Constitutional Right We Love To Hate
  8. Dick, Dawn And Akhil: Why Don’t You Love Us Long Time? (Update)
  9. Hacking Makes Privacy Unreasonable? Meh (Upate)
  10. You Can’t Handle The Truth, Prosecutor Edition
  11. How’s That Crowdsourcing Working For You Now?
  12. One Less Twitter Follower For All The Wrong Reasons: @Ebolamerican
  13. Strict And Strictiness
  14. Saving Campus Due Process Isn’t A Game For Dilettantes
  15. No Pricks Allowed
  16. The Floyd Chronicles: With All Deliberate Speed
  17. Bringing Down The House
  18. Cross: Shon Hopwood, From Prisoner To SCOTUS To Scholar
  19. Lessons From A Dispassionate Judge: Focus On What Matters
  20. Rhode Island Revenge Porn Crime Gets Vetoed
  21. Drugs And Guns, Guns And Drugs, Whatever
  22. The Supreme Court’s Attenuation Deficit Disorder
  23. Good Bullet, Bad Bullet
  24. All The News That Fits The Orlando Narrative
  25. If Judge Persky Was Wrong, What’s Right?
  26. The Anti-Indulgent Post About You
  27. Damaging Things Stupid SJWs Twit For $1000, Alex
  28. The Constitution Matters In Texas, But Not As Much As Money
  29. The Size Of A Closet In East Cleveland
  30. Fashionably Biased
  31. The Invisible Westboro Baptist Church
  32. A NY Senator’s Silence
  33. An Imperfect Solution
  34. Fault Lines: A Few Federal Judges and You?
  35. Cross: Douglas Berman, The Final Sentence
  36. Gawker Uses Trump’s Hair To Make A First Amendment Point
  37. To Repeal An Amendment
  38. When @EFF Is Needed Most, There’s Nate Cardozo
  39. Hate Guns Enough And Any Argument Makes Sense (Update)
  40. The Price of Protection For An Underage Oakland Prostitute
  41. Cuomo At The Social Justice Intersection
  42. He Quit Twitter (And You Can Too!)
  43. Magnitudes of Pain And The Third-Party Doctrine
  44. Male In The Middle
  45. North Carolina Rejects Cyberbullying Law As Unconstitutional
  46. When The First Amendment Isn’t A Clearly Established Right
  47. Lawyer Fashionista: Tee Time Is Cop-Tastic!
  48. New York’s Prosecutors Agree, We’re Special
  49. Judge Aaron Persky And The Hypocrites’ Revenge
  50. When Confidential Meets The Crime-Fraud Exception And Conflict
  51. ERAD, Because It’s Not Just About The Cash (Update)
  52. A Mother’s Help At Lynn University
  53. Brock Turner’s Too Good Friend (Update)
  54. Silly Rabbit, Bathrooms Are For Kids
  55. Legal Ethics In The Age of Feelz: What Else You Got?
  56. Section 230 Does Not Absolve All Sins
  57. The Department of Justice Catching Up
  58. The Overlord Solution
  59. Making Sense of Corey Jones’ Senseless Death
  60. Why Does Jessica Valenti (And The New York Times) Hate The New Victims?
  61. Laws Without Rules
  62. Commencing Inspiration
  63. The Airbnb Of Simple Justice (Because Sharing Is Caring)
  64. Why Not #SayHerName?
  65. Circles And Squares Of Transgenders
  66. Cross: JoAnne Musick, Criminal Law From Both Sides Now
  67. Judge Maria Rosa’s Valiant Effort
  68. White Light In Front, Flashing Lights Behind

May 2016

  1. The Ganias 13, Or Why Evidence Is Forever
  2. The Prisoners’ Dilemma: The Exhaustion of Exhausting Remedies
  3. Memorial Day 2016
  4. If It’s “Constructive,” It’s Not Journalism
  5. Around The Jail In 80 Days: Andrew Domino Got Lucky
  6. Judge Block’s Curious Parsimony
  7. Nicholas Kristof And The Comfort of Ad Hominem
  8. Bond. Jane Bond
  9. The Team Sport of Criminal Defense
  10. Abelove Played The Gap And Sabotaged The Prosecution Of A Cop
  11. How Can You Tell When A Lawyer Is Lying?
  12. Eight Justices And A Balancing Test
  13. Peter Thiel, Hero Of The Big Lie (Update)
  14. Cross: Mark Bennett, Senior United States District Judge (N.D. Iowa)
  15. Peter Thiel Was Hulk Hogan’s Pay Pal
  16. Passionate Is Never An Excuse to Be Ineffective (Update)
  17. Why Does Heroin Make People Stupider?
  18. Race Neutral Reasons When Nothing Is Race Neutral
  19. The Tennessee Waltz Around Gideon
  20. The Word You’re Searching For Is “Lie”
  21. The Promised Rose Garden Wilts
  22. Trees, Forests and Clouds: The A2J Fantasy
  23. Sotomayor’s Empathy: Lawyers Pay The Price
  24. The Crime Of Leveling The Playing Field
  25. No Subreddit For Old Lawyers
  26. The “Right To Privacy” Sword Swings Both Ways
  27. Less Than “Great” Deference To Judge Posner
  28. The Dream Team, If Dream Means Failure
  29. Clearing The Backlog: Rape Kits To Nowhere
  30. Cross: Robin Steinberg, The Bronx Defender
  31. Judge Kneels And Welcomes His Governmental Overlords
  32. The Limits of Infallibility
  33. 13 Questions While The Poor Have No Lawyers
  34. Obama Takes The Easier Route: Forgiveness (Update)
  35. Silent Green
  36. Brooklyn Boilerplate Bites The Dust
  37. Comey’s Coward Cops
  38. Sexsplaining, Transgender Edition
  39. Beware The Morality Police
  40. When “Intent” Was Written Out Of The Model Penal Code
  41. Shelly Serves For Our Sins
  42. Discrimination Nation
  43. The Day Gym Class Got Really Weird (Update)
  44. The Missing Witness And The Rejected Plea
  45. NPR’s Shifty Push For Well Deserved Public Shaming Of Campus Rapists
  46. But For Video: The End Of The Chase (On Live TV)
  47. Cross: Elie Mystal, From Salacious Gossip To Slaying Dragons
  48. Fault Lines: Two Judges, No Waiting
  49. The Other Dark Meat
  50. Bronx Defenders Sues To End Insufferable Delays (Update)
  51. The War on Drugs Is Not Dead Yet
  52. The Transgender Question On The Table
  53. Utah Struggles With Virginity: Punishing A Prosecutor For The First Time
  54. Randazza’s Anti-SLAPP Would Make No Sound In New York
  55. Hating Redskins
  56. Person Who Was Convicted Of A Felony (Formerly Known As Felon)
  57. The Three Most Important Things to Know About Making A Citizen’s Arrest
  58. Harvard Men
  59. Shira Scheindlin: More Judges, Better Judges
  60. A Lie Too Far?
  61. The ABA And Its Favorite Flavor Of Ethics
  62. North Carolina Meets The Rule of Bureaucrats
  63. The Category Is Before And After: Details Of The Shooting Remain Sparse
  64. Cross: District of Colorado Senior Judge John Kane
  65. The 800 Lb. Doggie In The Harris County Jury Room
  66. Next Generation, Zealousness or Happiness; Pick Your Poison
  67. Turley’s War on the Skies (and everywhere else)
  68. Rule 41, When Any Judge Will Do
  69. The UnConviction: Why DPAs Don’t Fit The Rhetoric
  70. The Pong of Law
  71. Feelings, Deconstructed
  72. Critically Acclaimed Investigative Journalist Steven I. Weiss Clearly Proves Jeff Jarvis
  73. When Empiricism Fails To Produce The Outcome “Everybody Knows”

April 2016

  1. Ray Kelly: Disinvited (But Still Full Of Shit)
  2. Mocking The Victim, The Indigent Defendant
  3. The Constitution, Huffington Post Version
  4. Mind The Gap: Outrage For The Wrong Reason Redux
  5. Satire And Baekdal’s Sad Feelings For Jeff Jarvis
  6. When Felons Vote
  7. Cross: Cathy Young, Fighting For The Mind of Feminism
  8. But For Judges, They Wouldn’t Be Dead In The Name Of Science
  9. The Killer Tomato’s Revenge
  10. What A Difference A Day Makes, Kansas Edition
  11. Is “Under No Circumstances” Acceptable, Judge?
  12. When Is Enough Enough? Finality v. Legitimacy
  13. Why A New York Law Office?
  14. But Comments Can Be Mean and Hateful
  15. Corey Who?
  16. And The Cancer Spreads: DoJ Orders UNM To Violate First Amendment
  17. Making The Nasty Sausage of Constitutional Rights
  18. The Impactfulness of Generational Collaborationalism in Lawspace
  19. Campus Follies Round-Up
  20. Beware The Dictum: The 4th Circuit’s Discovery Of The Meaning Of Sex
  21. Level Two Lies: Because The FBI Can’t Trust Prosecutors
  22. Insulting In Rhode Island
  23. Reader Mailbag Volume 127
  24. Know Precedent; Preserve Issues; Make Precedent
  25. Cross: Cristian Farias, From Fault Lines To The Supreme Court
  26. Scorched Earth Defense Burns Government (This Time)
  27. Can Andrew Miltenberg Bring An End To The DoE’s Rape Reign (Update x2)
  28. Full of Grit
  29. The Killing Continues, And No One Cares
  30. The Letter From Hell
  31. Innocence, Before and After
  32. The Urinal Wars
  33. The Unbearable Whiteness of Knowledge
  34. The Avenging Sword of Safe Space
  35. Scrutiny Lost: Eric Garner Prosecutor Gets A Pass
  36. This Is Your Brain On Speed
  37. UC Davis’ Return of the Pepper Spray
  38. Do It Once, Get It Right
  39. Too Little Due Process, Too Much Deference
  40. The Standard in Aiken? Give Cop Rape A Break
  41. As Go Comments, So Goes Above The Law
  42. Cross: Ellen Yaroshefsky, In The Trenches of Criminal Law Ethics
  43. Recreating History: The Notorious 1994 Crime Bill
  44. Scared Straight: But It Seemed Like Such A Good Idea
  45. Evan’s Law: Just Not A Big Deal
  46. Cop Shock: Even Child Molestation Gets A Pass
  47. Safe Space On Wheels
  48. The Waiter, The Thiel Fellow
  49. Monetizing OPC Isn’t Brave
  50. Why Waiver Won’t Work
  51. The Syndrome, The Shaken Baby Witch Hunt
  52. Appreciating Gender Studies
  53. But For Video: Skeptics Edition
  54. Government To Apple: We’re Ba-aa-ack
  55. Owen Labrie Will Not Go Down Quietly; Nor Should He
  56. The CEI Subpoena Cannot Stand
  57. Ye Of Too Much Faith (In Juries)
  58. Welcome To The Rap Sheet California
  59. Cross: Alex Bunin, Getting Public Defense Right
  60. Operators Used To Be Standing By
  61. WhatsApp and What’s Next?
  62. Rolling Stone’s “Jackie”: Deposed, But Still Too Precious
  63. The Other Black Face Problem
  64. The Privacy Lie
  65. Princeton Responds
  66. Plea Bargain Like A Pro
  67. Meet Your Future Sexual Predator
  68. The Irony of Brandeis
  69. Demands and Enlightened Self-Interest
  70. Claiming Harvard Law
  71. Rehabilitating Atticus (Update)
  72. Does Donald Trump Suddenly Look A Half Billion Thinner? (Update, Of Course)
  73. Sanetastic! Get A Grip On Your [Ableist Slur] Bias
  74. The Sweet Smell of Revenge
  75. Blame The Teacher (Update)

March 2016

  1. Kagan’s Dissent: Overrule Monsanto
  2. When The MPAA Makes Sense
  3. Cross: Mark Bennett, Have Speech, Will Travel
  4. Traitor To The Cause
  5. The Miami Public Defender’s Close-Up
  6. The Textualist’s Dilemma On Social Media
  7. Masculinity Redefined: The Manly Man’s Man
  8. Ferentz Lafargue, Wanted For Murder
  9. There Is No Vaccination For [Ableist Slur]
  10. But For Video: Getting Grounded Edition
  11. Men With Guns (and that scares Heidi Czerwiec) (Update)
  12. Welcome To Buffalo, Elijah Bethel
  13. A Tale Of Two Grills
  14. No Mail Today
  15. An Official Fantasy of Title IX
  16. Cutting Crime With Backward Policing
  17. The “Real” Pain At Emory
  18. Witness For The Prosecution: Ghomeshi Acquitted
  19. Winky Law
  20. The Death Spiral of Legal Knowledge
  21. Cross: Andrew King, The Prosecutor Comes Clean
  22. Judge Richard Kopf Saves A Child From SORA
  23. Drugs, Nixon and the Big Lie
  24. The Joys of Blawging
  25. U.S. v. Apple: Never Mind
  26. Tennessee’s Martin Daniel Gets It
  27. Too Late For Labrie
  28. A Very Captive Audience
  29. Meet Mr. Telephone
  30. The Empty “Lavabit” Threat
  31. Hulk v. Gawker: The Chill From Tampa
  32. Fault Lines: The Next Generation
  33. Regime Change For Prosecutors
  34. But He Wrote “Girls”!!!
  35. Fault Lines Feedback
  36. A Free Press And The Ickiness of Newsworthiness (Update)
  37. The Proctologist On The Supreme Court
  38. The False Accusation Excuse: Discuss Killing Yourself?
  39. Politics, The New Cure For Mental Health
  40. The Merrick Garland Gambit
  41. Judge Gleeson Has Left The Building
  42. Cross: Ron Kuby, The Dude’s Radical Lawyer
  43. A Legal Fiction, Among Many
  44. DEA Fails, But Can Jamie Hunt Be Trusted To Fix It?
  45. Staking Your Life On Siri
  46. Hey, Where The White Women At?
  47. Wright and Wrong: 23 Years Later, A Totally New Theory of Prosecution
  48. Nungesser’s “Mattress Girl” Suit Dismissed
  49. Trump, Speech and the Crucible of Anger
  50. The Death of the Boys’ Club
  51. ObamaPhone
  52. No Free Pass For The Brooklyn IHOP Robin Hood
  53. Criminal Defense Lawyer Down
  54. Floyd Abrams and Institutional Memory
  55. The Superpowers of Captain Privilege
  56. When Good Science Goes Bad
  57. Cross: Greg Lukianoff, Lighting The First Amendment FIRE On Campus
  58. Bad Words
  59. NYPD: At Least We Didn’t Kill Him
  60. Black Voices Save Black Lives: Don’t Blow It
  61. The Government’s Next Bite of the Apple
  62. The Police Commissioner Was Not Amused (Update)
  63. The Hard “No”
  64. It’s Not Courtesy If He Kills You
  65. The Glacier of Title IX
  66. The Laundry List Approach: How To Bury Your Failed Position
  67. No Woody Wilson Way At Stanford
  68. A Living Wage
  69. DoJ To Toddlers: You Can Do It!!!
  70. Fault Lines: Principle and Painful Choices
  71. Naked And Afraid: The Compliance Conundrum
  72. Another Rape Accusation. Another Gang of Five
  73. Academic Freedom And Insanity
  74. Unteaching Cops: Easier To Say Than Do
  75. Cross: Jon Rapping, Doing Everything He Can To Keep Gideon’s Promise
  76. Apple And The Magistrate’s Conspiracy
  77. Affirmative Consent And The Fuzzy Legal Standard
  78. Castille’s Big Win
  79. Safe Space For Dummies

February 2016

  1. Help Wanted, Women Need Not Apply
  2. An Illegitimate Free Speech Debate
  3. Victims Are Not The New Heroes
  4. ? ? ? In The First Degree
  5. Help Wanted (Update)
  6. Lessons On Sister Kicking
  7. Trading Places: The White Faces Of Power
  8. The Fifth Circuit And The First Rule
  9. Playing “Gotcha” With Privacy
  10. Law Writing 101: Don’t Make People Stupider
  11. United States v. Apple: Hearts v. Minds
  12. Remanded To Fantasy Island
  13. Cross: Mike Cernovich, The 800 lb. Gorilla Lawyer
  14. One Click, Two Clicks, Melissa Click
  15. Grassley’s Anticipatory Repudiation
  16. Ronald Collins: The Marketplace Of Ideologies
  17. Bennett’s Smart Argument Needed A Smart Judge
  18. An Easy Case Before A Hard Court
  19. Does The New York Times Now Hate Illegals And The Poor?
  20. Comey & Victims: Can You Look Them In The Eye?
  21. Why Robert Stacy McCain?
  22. Why Did The ABA Journal Go Full Tilt On GamerGate?
  23. It’s A Hard Knock Life, At Brown
  24. US v. Apple: The Government Seizes The Narrative (Critical Update)
  25. Fools Have Rules: The Two Shot Rule
  26. Hate Is Not An Excuse For RooshV False Rape Claim
  27. Milbank To Harvard Law SJWs: You Blew It
  28. Defendants The ACLU Loves To Hate
  29. The Last Bite of Apple’s iPhone
  30. Cross: Marc Randazza, First Amendment Badass
  31. Larry Summers Says Cash Sucks
  32. The Department of Homeland Apple
  33. Twitter: A Turd In The Pool
  34. An Appellate Decision, “In The Worst Possible Taste”
  35. Win Or Lose, You Pay
  36. Is “Ignore” A Constitutional Option? (Update)
  37. The Fetish of 149
  38. Justice Antonin Scalia Will Be Remembered
  39. Nine Very Long Years
  40. Stuart Gibson’s Really Bad Idea
  41. Ebony In Ivory: Delusions and Lies About Arrest
  42. Sexism at LegalTech?
  43. P.O. Liang Convicted, And No One Was Saved
  44. How Fair Is Too Fair?
  45. Cassell To Obama: Do What I Failed To Do
  46. Alt-Constitution: The Fantasy Game
  47. Cross: Josh Kendrick, The Defense Works Late
  48. Ted Nugent’s Mouth And Madeleine Albright’s Tongue
  49. Candid Camera And Search Warrants
  50. A Day To Remember (Fun Stuff)
  51. To A Lawprof’s Credit, Where Due
  52. ABA Hops Aboard The Speeding Train As It’s Crashing
  53. Tasers And The Worthless Confession
  54. FOIA And The Quick Buck
  55. The Fatso Chronicles
  56. Who’s To Blame For Reform’s Two “Hostages”
  57. LeGrier’s Killer Tries Tactical Chutzpah*
  58. Because The ABA Isn’t Irrelevant Enough
  59. The All-Inclusive “Big Cheese” Solution
  60. Reasonable In Cleveland
  61. Last Stop, Wall Street
  62. Does That GPS Match Your Socks?
  63. The Language Formerly Known As English (Calvin & Hobbes Update)
  64. Ugly, But Unfair
  65. Cross: Mike Masnick, Digging Up Dirt On More Than Tech
  66. Passports Of The Damned (Update x2)
  67. The Sophisticated Client Wants A Legal Curmudgeon
  68. Empty Gestures And Powerful Messages
  69. If You Have Nothing To Hide
  70. The Rest Of Your Unnatural Life

January 2016

  1. The Parsimonious Judge Jack Weinstein
  2. The Meaning Of Job
  3. Because It’s Pimptastic, And I’m An Admiral
  4. All For One, And None For The Monkey
  5. Grieving Dr. Rosalind Griffin
  6. How Feminist Dogma Creates More Girl-Crime
  7. Elizabeth Warren And The New Fearmongering
  8. Lewinski, Revealed
  9. Tag, You’re Screwed
  10. On Writing: Dazzle Or Baffle
  11. 4th Circuit: Tasers Hurt. A Lot
  12. Riding Orin Kerr’s Law Enforcement Trolley
  13. Cross: Walter Olson, A Good Lawyer’s Best Friend
  14. Unplanned Parenthood: Law Triumphs Over Politics
  15. The Make-Believe World Of Police Policy
  16. Back To Basics: Rape Is Not A Title IX Violation
  17. The Curious Quiet Around Peter Liang
  18. Broken Windows Lite
  19. Good Cop, Bad Cop: When The FBI Gets Into The Kiddie Porn Biz
  20. A Second Chance, For the Judge
  21. An Apology Owed To District Attorney Robert James
  22. Because Thinking Is Too Damn Hard
  23. Unreasonably Foreseeable To A Drunk
  24. Quasi-Criminal, But They Keep Promising To Be Fair
  25. Don’t Blame Judge Judy That Students Are Clueless
  26. Beg Your Pardon
  27. Cross: Marcy Wheeler, The NSA’s Worst Nightmare
  28. Patrick Zarrelli Tests The Stupidity Of The Internet
  29. Tinkering With The Mechanics Of Death (Of Public Sector Unions)
  30. If It’s A Loophole, It Must Be Closed
  31. The ACLU Is Totally Wrong, But Completely Right
  32. The Sweet Fumes of Chevron
  33. Nice Judgment You Got There, But You Still Have To Collect
  34. The Other Big House
  35. Is Northwestern’s President, Morton Schapiro, A Moron?
  36. Crazy Campus Consent Conundrum Collapses
  37. No, Not Free Speech
  38. Rubbed Wrong
  39. Sad Harvard Tears
  40. Nutralife
  41. Dear @RobbySoave: I’m Here For You
  42. Avvo’s Lawyer For Sale
  43. Consistency-Я-Us
  44. A College Education Of Little Use
  45. The Big Kahuna To Judges: You’re Not Special Either
  46. Innocence Project of Texas: Mission Aborted
  47. Cross: Noel Erinjeri, The Guy In Front Of The Tank
  48. Greenfield, I Pick You
  49. Judge Cain’s Really Awful, Humiliating Poem
  50. Finding What You’re Looking For
  51. In Place Of Torts, Social Justice
  52. Dead Men Walking
  53. Twitter de Milo
  54. 113 Stories and the Law of Feelz
  55. The Stress Hug
  56. “Making A Murderer”: Any Love Is Good Love?
  57. The Death Gap
  58. Naked And Afraid: The Grand Jury To Meet Anthony Hill’s Killer
  59. Fault Lines: The Force Awakens
  60. Great News! The Law School Crisis Is Over!
  61. The Price Of Mistrust
  62. Ron McGuire: To Be Impoverished By Fighting The Good Fight
  63. To Protect And Serve, Or Not
  64. Would You Be A Tool To Validate A Tool?
  65. The Weakest Sex
  66. How To Survive Prison
  67. Hammond’s Sentence: Just A Banal Miscarriage of Justice
  68. Is “Necessity” The Answer To Stop Police Murder?
  69. When The Castle Doctrine Goes Through A Steel Door
  70. Progressing. Toward Misery?
  71. Black Lives Matter; Thinking Does Too
  72. Just Because He’s Not Guilty
  73. Resolute Defenders Of Free Speech (Update)
  74. 2015 Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post
  75. Hey, Hey, Hey: It’s Guilty Cosby!
  76. Balko or Kerr: Reading Tea Leaves

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