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December 2017

  1. The Year of the Smushed Dead Rat
  2. The SWATting Death of Andy Finch
  3. Short Take: Cool Gig In Maricopa County
  4. Discretion and Discrimination In Seattle
  5. A Practical Lawyer’s Reply To Kopf The Contrarian
  6. The Buzz Is You’re Fired (Update)
  7. Kopf: A Contrarian’s View Of The Vanishing Federal Criminal Jury Trial
  8. Seaton: When Smartphones Kill
  9. Drunken Lies and Incapacitated Truth
  10. Short Take: Free Speech, But Not So Loud Speech
  11. The Canadian Method, Eh?
  12. A Christmas Tradition, 2017
  13. The Moral Bar
  14. Hide And Seek, The Government Loses
  15. Light Hands and Sticky Fingers
  16. Short Take: The Yates Method
  17. The J-Dog Prize? Not This Year
  18. Collateral Consequences Of The Unseen Child
  19. Kids Do Dumb Things, Squared
  20. A Profane Rant Is Proper Because Reasons
  21. Empathy, Sympathy and Consequences
  22. Silence Of The Ewes
  23. Judge, Get Your Hard On
  24. Kopf: Is Sentencing The Hardest Thing A Federal Judge Does?
  25. Matt Damon’s Risk and Rebuke
  26. Update To The Law Clerk’s Handbook
  27. King: The Perils of Prosecuting a President
  28. Tuesday Talk*: The Leong Ultimatum
  29. Short Take: Franken’s Bus Stop
  30. Kozinski Resigns, And The Fools Rejoice (Update)
  31. Short Take: The “Easy” Button
  32. Meyer-Lindenberg: Roy Moore, From a (Short) Distance
  33. Short Take: Disingenuous Speech About Disingenuous Speech
  34. The Banned Words That Weren’t
  35. Seaton: Rocky Top Crumbles Under Cries of Hate Speech
  36. Short Take: Andrea Ramsey Meets The Wheels Of The Bus
  37. Words and Phrases
  38. Short Take: Senior House Lost
  39. The Joys of Vinegar Spreading
  40. Trash Talking Twitter
  41. Seaton: Ten Questions Every Criminal Defense Lawyer Should Ask On The First Date
  42. How Do You Solve A Problem Like Kozinski?
  43. Trapping The Lonely
  44. Short Take: Welcome Back, Volokh
  45. Fall of the Masters
  46. Times Through The Gender Lens
  47. Short Take: Brown Is The New Green
  48. Beware The “Likelihood Ratio”
  49. Judge McMahon and The Graham Rule
  50. Tuesday Talk: Frankly Franken
  51. Lies and Consequences
  52. Kopf: A Short Take On A Coincidence
  53. #DefameMeToo
  54. Under A Bad Sign
  55. Stupid Lawyer Tricks, Kozinski Edition
  56. Patterico: A Reasoned Perspective
  57. The Modern Art Of Pervs
  58. Judge Alex Kozinski and The Mad Cow
  59. A Requiem For Quality Academic Thought
  60. Brailsford Acquitted For The Execution of Daniel Shaver
  61. Lawyer, Smack?
  62. Bad Mom In The First Degree
  63. Sgt. Keith Sweeney Indicted For Murder In Oklahoma City
  64. Kopf: Can You Hear Me Now?
  65. Short Take: Woman Power (You Knew This Was Coming, Right?)
  66. Fourth Circuit’s Flaccid Decision
  67. Wedding Bell Blues (Update)
  68. A President And The “I” Word
  69. Bennett: The Art of Representing a Hall of Shame Offender at Sentencing
  70. Short Take: Que Serra, Serra
  71. Two Wrongs And One Right
  72. A Lawprof’s Head Turner (Update)
  73. The Last Thing A Suicidal (Or Any) Person Needs
  74. Are Courthouses Sanctuaries? (Update)
  75. New Name For Bad Idea: “Information Escrow”
  76. Who Pays The Price of Indoctrination?
  77. Who Let Shaila Dewan Write This Drivel?
  78. Short Take: The Steinle Moment

November 2017

  1. Is Title VII To Blame?
  2. Moral Market Suasion And Made-Up Law
  3. Kopf: Steven Calabresi Should Stop Pulling Imaginary Stuff From His Butt
  4. Bennett: Looking Criminal
  5. Short Take: Death Wishes In Wonderland
  6. Taking Things Is Not Okay
  7. Tuesday Talk*: Dragging the Line
  8. The Arcane Notions of Privacy And Guilt (Update)
  9. Weapon of Miss Destruction
  10. The Non-Apology To Lindsay Shepard, Eh?
  11. Revenge Porn, Revealed
  12. Your Honor
  13. One Bail At A Time?
  14. Greenhouse’s Unsubtle Suggestion
  15. Rape And Wrong: The Cop Problem
  16. Short take: Good Judge, Nice Judge
  17. Twitter (Or How I Learned To Love The Bomb)
  18. The Anti-Bullshit Movement
  19. Thanksgiving For None of Our Doing, 2017
  20. Reimagining Joe Barton
  21. Short Take: Dancing Fool
  22. Kopf: Top Ten Things I Am Thankful For On Thanksgiving
  23. Short Take: The Price Of Thanksgiving Dinner
  24. The Lowest Common Denominatrix (Update)
  25. Short Take: The “T” Word
  26. Twist And Shout: Making Consent More Meaningless
  27. Pride of Ownership
  28. Blow Hard (Update)
  29. Paved With Gold
  30. Short Take: License To Ruin
  31. The @Axios Memo
  32. Short Take: Joke Cracked, Head Exploded
  33. It’s A Living for Silver & Wright
  34. Alleged Stigma
  35. The Worst Section 230 Analogy Ever?
  36. Short Take: The Other Hostile Work Environment
  37. Famous On Probation: The Meek Mill Lesson
  38. Franken Sense (Update)
  39. Prickett: What Do You Mean I Can’t Arrest Someone For Political Speech?
  40. You Wish You Were Him
  41. The Judge’s Toolbox (Update)
  42. Greenhouse Effect: Bias, Lies And What We Know
  43. Kopf: On Prison Hospice Care
  44. Bunin: The Foolish Spectacle of Carter Page
  45. Short Take: The Conflict of Gender Confusion
  46. Drunk In Dallas
  47. Short Take: Teddy On The Cross
  48. Three Years Why?
  49. Bronx Freedom Fund To Go National (Update)
  50. Remembering Troy
  51. George Takei’s Harsh Lesson For Us All
  52. Talley Ban
  53. Short Take: To Watch Or To Be Watched
  54. Did Passionate Advocates Do It?
  55. The Irresponsible Pedagogy of “Hard Work”
  56. Debate: Ah, What Do Lawyers Know Anyway?
  57. Debate: People Power! Non-Lawyers Can And Should Be Judges
  58. Professors With Blood On Their Hands
  59. The Toxic Environment of a Nasty Job
  60. The Hoax Effect
  61. NY “Closes” The Brady Gap With A Sucker’s Bet
  62. Kopf: How The ABA Standing Committee On The Federal Judiciary Might Regain its Credibility
  63. ACLU Appearing For Whom?
  64. Fair Punishment Project’s Really Unfortunate Choice
  65. Bennett: The Art of Opening Statements, Second Installment
  66. Four Years For Prosecutor Robert Neary
  67. Bennett: The Art of Opening Statements, First Installment
  68. Against A Minor
  69. GPS Monitoring: On The Wrong Foot?
  70. Where The Boys Are
  71. Short Take: Holding Hands, Kicking Stones
  72. Why Aren’t You Outraged?
  73. Short Take: Killer Cars
  74. ACLU Put Client First, Makes Sleepy DoJ Sad
  75. 3M: Myths, Massachusetts and Michelle
  76. The Business Of Stuff You Read Online (Update)
  77. Short Take: Bubblewrap and a Chastity Belt
  78. Short Take: Greetings From New Jersey
  79. Qualifying The Grasz Rating
  80. Kopf: A Short Take on a Pithy Comment by an Aging Trench Lawyer
  81. Short Take: Legitimacy Regained
  82. The Dartmouth Disappeared

October 2017

  1. Tuesday Talk*: Halloween Edition
  2. Victim Points On The Program Hierarchy
  3. Short Take: Leave The Dawg Out Of It
  4. Bennett: The Art of Motions in Limine
  5. Short Take: The Unsafe Pew
  6. Manafort Indicted!!!
  7. Facts On The Postmodernist Battlefield
  8. Short Take: Not Even Rednecks (Update)
  9. But For Video: White Woman’s Weapon
  10. Ending Sexual Harassment, When Reach Exceeds Grasp
  11. Short Take: Return of the Slackoisie?
  12. Plato, The Oppressor
  13. Terrorism Or Impatience
  14. Strossen: Justifying Free Speech
  15. Erasing AUSA John Wortmann
  16. The SCOTUS Woman Problem
  17. Confessions Of An Internet Guru
  18. Kopf: On Mindless Judicial Pomp
  19. Short Take: @Popehat Who?
  20. The Good Fascist
  21. The Most Isolated Branch
  22. Buying Silence: Should It Be Prohibited?
  23. Arrested, Cuffed, Raped, And Brooklyn DA Sees A Consent Question? (Update x2)
  24. #MeToo: Revolution or Revelation?
  25. Integrity Lost: The Journalism Chronicles
  26. The Stacked Deck
  27. Donuts and the Blawgosphere
  28. The Camera’s Broken Promise
  29. Short Take: Green Bag Follies
  30. Judge Weinstein Takes on Testilying
  31. The Line of Disruption: Can Hijacking Be Outlawed?
  32. The Murder “Epidemic” Spreads
  33. Kopf: The Unexploded Landmine Buried Deep In The Codes of Conduct Committee’s Otherwise Excellent Opinion On Posner
  34. Bless Your Dear “American Heart”
  35. Tuesday Talk*: The Land of the Free?
  36. Buying Bombast: The Preet Syndrome
  37. Bennett: The Art of Impeachment With A Prior Inconsistent Statement
  38. Short Take: Can Free Speech and Social Justice Co-Exist?
  39. Sessions’ Inconsistent Consistency
  40. Short Take: Twits of the Times
  41. Bad Math At Good Colleges
  42. Heavy Cy
  43. Short Take: To Kill “To Kill A Mockingbird”
  44. The Trumpkins Hecklers’ Revenge
  45. Sheriff Prator: Baby, You Can Wash My Car
  46. Surrender To The Credible Threats
  47. Short Take: The Other Harveys
  48. Experiencing The Movies, At What Price?
  49. Kopf: Remembering John Thompson, Thinking About Brady and Giglio
  50. Seaton: When Public Defenders Call Bullshit
  51. Short Take: The Happy Warriors of The Academy
  52. The Last Itty Bitty Slice of Prosecutorial Liability
  53. Tuesday Talk*: Marshall Project Phone Home
  54. Short Take: Nuclear Deterrence, How Does It Work?
  55. Thurgood Marshall Law School Tests Newton’s Third Law (Update)
  56. Bennett: The Art of Submitting Letters of Support
  57. Penn State’s Contemptible Do-Over
  58. Chemerinsky and the Meaning of “Why?”
  59. The California Cut Rate: How Low Should It Go?
  60. Short Take: Mass Murder And Opportunities
  61. Will The ACLU Make “Dr. DRE” A Precedent In Georgia?
  62. Lisa Bloom’s Crisis
  63. The Low-Hanging Fruit Of Free Speech
  64. Supporting Cy: The Price of (Non)Prosecution
  65. Short Take: The ACLU Gets Burned At The Stake
  66. Bennett: The Art of Arguing The Frivolous
  67. Seaton: Tennessee Supreme Court Fails The Public On Indigent Representation
  68. In Edith Macias’ Defense
  69. Kopf: A Short Take On Life As A Series Of Disappointments (or payback’s a bitch)
  70. Negotiating With The Emotional Labor Union (Maggie Update)
  71. Two Approaches To Gun Control: Facts and Gay
  72. Blame The Algorithms And Their Masters
  73. Tuesday Talk*: Guns, Guns, Guns
  74. Unions Or Class Actions, Or Both?
  75. Bunin: Public Defense Management, Free Expression And The Squawk
  76. Short Take: Crowdsourcing Hate
  77. Appellate Squawk Taken To The Star Chamber (Update)
  78. Crazy Doctor Dreams

September 2017

  1. Judge Ross Moody: A Long Arm And A Short Fuse
  2. A Librarian’s Complaint
  3. Karla Frye And A Protest Too Far
  4. The Survey Shows . . . We’re Pretty Normal
  5. Short Take: The Tweeter Laureate Of The Fifth
  6. Even The Dersh? Especially The Dersh
  7. The Rehabilitation Of A Cop
  8. Kopf: Nobody Likes A Bootlicker
  9. Tuesday Talk*: Focus (Squirrel!!!)
  10. The Scent Of Sessions
  11. Short Take: A Tyranny, No Matter What
  12. Weiner Time
  13. Reporting The Reporters Bearing Witness
  14. Debate: The DC Court of Appeals Was Wrong, Stingrays Shouldn’t Require A Warrant
  15. Debate: Stingrays Aren’t Third Parties; Get A Warrant
  16. The Cross Complaint
  17. The Times Finds Its G-Spot
  18. Berkeley Owes Students A Refund
  19. Scold Me Maybe
  20. Short Take: Of Last Resort
  21. Change Has Come To Title IX, But To What End?
  22. Short Take: 1000 Journalists Named Timmy
  23. The Simple Lawyer’s Guide To Getting Shot
  24. The Black Student’s Burden In California
  25. Trust, Inc.
  26. On Deaf Ears
  27. Kopf: What If Seventh Circuit Nominee Professor Amy Coney Barrett Was An Ardent Atheist?
  28. Hamilton’s Experts: The Real Rap
  29. There’s No Autism Exception To The First Rule
  30. Short Take: A Rate Too Great
  31. The Only Consensus That Matters
  32. Debate: Congress Has A Place Regulating Cross Burnings and Hate Speech On Campus
  33. Debate: Just Say No To Legislating Hate Speech on Campus
  34. Who Wears The Traveling Pants In Rape Accusations?
  35. The Last Constitution Day
  36. Short Take: A Groovy Kind of Suburbia
  37. A Victim of Climate Change
  38. Honesty, Finally
  39. Ohio Judge John Adams Goes To War
  40. Short Take: Harvard’s Chelsea Morning
  41. But If Not Title IX, Then What?
  42. David Feige To SCOTUS: Clean Up Your Mess
  43. Undignified, Demeaning, Disbarred, Revisited
  44. Kopf: Several Unrelated Observations About Stuff
  45. The Unpleasant Burden Of Deconstructing Gibberish
  46. Posners Are Quitters
  47. Tuesday Talk: A Unanimous Verdict?
  48. Richard Posner’s Parting Apology
  49. Short Take: Has Penn Lawprof Amy Wax Lost Her Gloss?
  50. Will Algorithms Be The Death of Bail?
  51. What Would Goldilocks Say?
  52. Short Take: Blurred Lines
  53. Short Take: Why There’s Nothing On The Tube
  54. On Campus Sex Policing, It’s Still A Solo Flight
  55. Short Take: Lifestyles of the Rich and Empathetic
  56. Beyond Qualified Immunity, There’s The Trial
  57. DeVos’ Title IX Outrage? Due Process
  58. Debate: Richard Nixon is the Worst Person to Be Pardoned, Arpaio Included
  59. Debate: Crazy Joe’s Pardon Slaps Law And Order in the Face
  60. Judge Matsch On SORA: Cut The Crap, It’s Unconstitutional
  61. Kopf: Tin Soldiers and a Black Manservant
  62. Good Friends And Bullets, A Grimm Tale
  63. Say What? The Fail Of Condemnation
  64. Short Take: “This Is Not Court”
  65. How Wrong Could Lawyer Gregg Re Be?
  66. Who Carries The Pitchforks And Torches At Penn
  67. Chicago Always Had A Consent Decree
  68. Write Good, Yo
  69. Short Take: MLK’s Seal of Approval On Violence
  70. The Show Will Go On (But Without Me)
  71. The Presentism Paradox
  72. Nurse Alex Wubbels Refused

August 2017

  1. Short Take: Transmissions and Transitions: What’s Defamatory?
  2. Is The ACLU Just A Shill For A Cause?
  3. Short Take: How To Be Totally Unpopular With This One Cool Trick
  4. Kopf: Shall We Demolish The Monument To Chief Justice John Marshall?
  5. Title IX, Law And The Harvard Compromise
  6. Silence Of The Judges
  7. Judge Kane On Women In The Trenches
  8. Short Take: When The PD Won’t
  9. Short Take: Reform Was The Price of Political Correctness
  10. The Antifa, Reinvented (Updated x2)
  11. Short Take: The Back Seat Death
  12. The Complicit Ally
  13. The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  14. Crazy Joe Arpaio, Back In The Pink
  15. Short Take: Who Do You Guru?
  16. Shaun King’s Unserious Soul
  17. Victim-in-Chief
  18. The Left Rehabilitates Joseph McCarthy
  19. Eric Clanton’s “Antifa” Defense
  20. Kopf: US District Judge John Adams Was A Jerk, But Does That Make Him Nuts?
  21. Twitter Validating The Important People
  22. The “Cheap Speech” Police
  23. Short Take: “Your Honor” Knows No Gender
  24. Tuesday Talk: Sinking The Robert E. Lee
  25. Short Take: How To Antifa Right
  26. The Selling Of A Race Riot
  27. Short Take: Crazy Meets The 25th Amendment
  28. Lilla Isn’t Gay
  29. The Court Of No Consent
  30. The 100 Thousandth Comment
  31. Short Take: It’s Not Easy Being Right
  32. Always Skeptical, Never Cynical
  33. Short Take: Cato Says What?
  34. Who Bought The ACLU?
  35. Trust Me, I’m From The ABA
  36. TAMU Doubles Down On Title IX Discrimination
  37. King: It’s Always Justified To Punch A Puritan Or A Roundhead
  38. Not The Punch, But The Excuse
  39. A Hole Into Which 1.3 Million Will Fall
  40. Kopf: A Short Take Calling the Admiral to Action
  41. Misunderstanding Trump
  42. Replacing “Like” With “Guilty”
  43. Teaching Trumplaw (Or Why Harvard Law Students Deserve A Refund) (Update)
  44. A Mob By Any Other Name
  45. By Any Other Name, Nazis
  46. Judicial Doubt And The Line Of Bias
  47. The Search For “Truth” Instead Of Doubt
  48. Short Take: Frank Bruni Plays His One Victim Point
  49. The Day We Lost Our Minds
  50. The Euphemism Of The “Uncomfortable” Truth
  51. Crisis Mismanagement In Charlottesville (Update x3)
  52. Short Take: Gaming The Algorithm Game
  53. ACLU Defending Milo
  54. Short Take: Admit Dwayne Betts
  55. It’s Title IX Rape Adjudication Or The Girl Mob
  56. Walter Olson: A Circle of Silence Without Responsibility
  57. Short Take: Because They Care (No They Don’t)
  58. Kopf: “To every thing there is a season . . . a time to be born, and a time to die”
  59. Can We Talk About Damore’s Demise?
  60. Tuesday Talk: Family Feud Edition
  61. Short Take: Fencing In The Dead
  62. Judge Scheindlin: The Vagina Dialogues
  63. A Bridge Too Far
  64. Yale Law Students: The Dean’s A Liar And We’re Special
  65. The New Hostess With The Mostest
  66. Short Take: This Is Your Court On Drugs
  67. Democracy Distorted: A Seattle Progressive’s Political Plea
  68. Short Take: Are We Dead Yet?
  69. The Horse Assumption
  70. Brady, With A Double Dose of Banal Failure
  71. Sex In Nebraska
  72. The Bonfire of the Distractions
  73. Short Take: I Can’t Do What, Dear Host?
  74. Affirmative Action, But Why?
  75. The Very Funny ACLU Brief
  76. Kopf: Howl
  77. Short Take: Posner’s 99 Problems
  78. Will Raising the Burden of Proof Fix Title IX?
  79. Tuesday Talk? Go For It (Update: Was It Good For You?)
  80. Short Take: The Divide Between Brass And The Beat Cop
  81. When The “Victim” Says She’s No Victim

July 2017

  1. The Price of Academic Freedom
  2. The Pardon Power, Silly
  3. Short Take: How’d They Know?
  4. The Perfect Poster Girl
  5. The PVC of The New Anti-Semitism
  6. Aside: The Money Back Guarantee (Update)
  7. Short Take: Practice Makes Perfect
  8. Court Rejects Feminist Mythology Expert
  9. Louisiana DAs: Have We Got A Deal For You!
  10. When the DNA Says “Way”
  11. Congress’ Sexual Preference
  12. The Reasonably Scared Cop Rule Meets Slapstick
  13. That One Juror
  14. Kopf: A Short Take On Sessions’ “War on Drugs”
  15. Short Take: Roxane Gay Doesn’t Want To Watch
  16. The Very Scary Traffic Stop
  17. Short Take: Bad Cop, Good Cop
  18. Patterico Wins, And You Need To Know
  19. Are We On Drugs?
  20. Short Take: An Unacceptable Choice
  21. The Vagina Chronicles: The Judge Said So
  22. To Tell The Truth
  23. Book Review: The Chickenshit Club
  24. Short Take: It’s Who You Know
  25. The Crimson and The Lie
  26. Crying Foul: When Facts Fall First
  27. The Crime of Not Loving Israel Enough
  28. Will Federal Money Change State Bail?
  29. Short Take: Second Banana
  30. Short Take: Is There Mustard On That Ham Sandwich, Mr. Prosecutor
  31. Indy Books and Wedding Cakes
  32. Hamburger In Paradise
  33. Black, Blue And Dead
  34. Kopf: A Letter to a Young Practicing Lawyer
  35. Harvard and The Exclusionary Rule
  36. Baltimore Video, But To No Avail (Update)
  37. Donotpay, But Do Not Complain
  38. King: Yes, Justice Thomas, Qualified Immunity Is A Mess
  39. The Blank Slate of Justine Damond’s Death
  40. Failure To Execute: The Prosecutor’s Veto
  41. Getting The Gig
  42. Short Take: How I Learned To Love The Bomb
  43. Faith And Democracy: Rick Hasen’s NGO Solution
  44. The Softer They Come, The Harder They Fall
  45. The “Fake” Title IX War Over Real Lives
  46. Why Does The Sentence-O-Matic 1000 Hate Blacks?
  47. Short Take: Tatyana Hargrove’s Crutches Confused The Cops
  48. Sheldon Silver’s Conviction Reversed By Second Circuit
  49. Columbia University Settles With Paul Nungesser Over Mattress Girl
  50. Judge Goodwin’s Big Table In The Well
  51. Critical Thought And Koch Conspiratorial Cash
  52. Short Take: The Fat Girl’s Guide To Good Men
  53. Kopf: Judge Goodwin’s Magnificent But Clearly Erroneous Opinion On Rejecting Plea Agreements
  54. Seaton: Mountain Anger Conceals Doctored Prosecution Agreement
  55. How Lunch Meat Ruined America
  56. SCOTUS’ Fantasy Trial
  57. We’re As Cold As ICE
  58. Short Take: Gillibrand’s Crusade
  59. Not Everybody Gets A Cookie
  60. But For Video: Ol’ Clark’s A Victim In His Own Mind
  61. Short Take: Who Are You?
  62. Meyer-Lindenberg: The Fixing Of America
  63. Judge Richard Posner Demonstrates His Point
  64. Hard Test At Howard Law
  65. “A” Is For An Angry Academic
  66. The Deadly Combination of Vigilance and Ignorance (Update)
  67. Short Take: An Inconvenient Incarceration
  68. Kopf: Sometimes It’s Necessary To Slap The Government Upside The Head
  69. Short Take: This Space Intentionally Left Blank
  70. We’re Not Dead Yet
  71. Machado: The Myth Of The Busted Safety Valve
  72. Cute Fuzzy Convictions
  73. Waiving Good-Bye
  74. Conflation and Lying To Oneself
  75. Burn The Squawk, Cry Legal Aid Society’s Fragile Waifs
  76. Short PSA: The Sweet Smell of Success
  77. Seaton: Senator Beavers Goes To War With Porn
  78. Michele Dauber: Devil In The Blue Dress

June 2017

  1. The Unavoidable Conflict Of Victimhood
  2. 5th Circuit Confers Immunity On Hayne And West
  3. Short Take: Censor First, Justify After
  4. Short Take: The NRA Tries To Cash In Too
  5. A Crack In The Blue Wall Of Complicity
  6. Stoking Fear Is A Piece of Cake (Updated)
  7. Judge John Kane: Waiting 5½ Years For Trial Is Enough (Update)
  8. Idle Hands And The Pink Solution
  9. No Joy In Hungville, Mighty Prosecutors Have Struck Out
  10. New Jersey Says No To Avvo Fee-Splitting Scheme
  11. Insipid Aspirations, The Permanent and Ethereal
  12. Two Shoots, Two Hits, Two Misses
  13. Even Journalists Get The Finger
  14. Joe Joswiak’s Revenge
  15. Short Take: The LA Times’ Balancing Act
  16. Lessons Of Philando Castile and the Reasonably Scared Cop Rule
  17. Kopf: A Short Take On Why Plato May Have Been Right About Democracy
  18. Short Take: The Well-Trained Executive
  19. The Big Soapbox Promotes The Big Lie: Presume Men Guilty
  20. When Packingham Met Chesterton
  21. The Slants Hangover
  22. Short Take: Free Speech And The Freedom Not To Associate
  23. Yanez Acquitted, And Nothing Is Learned
  24. Short Take: No Thanks. None.
  25. Short Take: Cash Isn’t Queer
  26. Sessions Explains: Keep It Stupid, Simple
  27. Bleg: Help Needed
  28. Michelle Carter Never Had A Chance
  29. Very Short Take: Alt-Snowflake
  30. Cosby: Everything But Law (Update)
  31. Short Take: Motherhood Rules, Updated
  32. Kasowitz: What’s Up, John?
  33. “Feeeeeeeeed Me”
  34. New York Times Perpetuates An Outright Lie (Update)
  35. Short Take: The Precedential Block
  36. Kopf: The Hero With A Criminal History Category VI
  37. Will Nevada Supremes Buy The Rule 8.4(g) Lie?
  38. Short Take: Reductio Ad Bee
  39. Sad Doesn’t Fill The Gap
  40. The “Black Box” Beats The Constitution
  41. Short Take: Facts, The Counter-Narrative
  42. Randazza, Because Somebody Has To
  43. Short Take: This Land Ain’t Your Land, Dallas Edition
  44. Rich or Poor, It’s Good To Have Money
  45. Racism and the Two-Peckered Billy Goat
  46. An Expert Apologist
  47. The Tumblr 500
  48. Alstory Simon Column Shows There’s No Competency Test For Soapboxes
  49. The Totally Conclusive Meaning of 28 Vague Words
  50. Short Take: A Tasty Bite of Frankfurter
  51. But For Video: Getting Kicks At Burning Man (Update)
  52. Leaks: From Drips To Deluge (Update)
  53. Kopf: Leaks
  54. Legal Aid’s Pride And Prejudice
  55. Short Take: The Telephone In The Summer of ’79
  56. Short Take: Send Them To Harvard?
  57. The Trauma of Tepid Times Introspection
  58. Supreme Court Passes On The Joint
  59. Short Take: The Disappeared Evergreen Video
  60. The UnHarvard Ten (Update)
  61. The 900 Gropes
  62. Short Take: Pink Prisons
  63. A Utopian Interrogation
  64. The Attack On Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Vile, Yet Different
  65. Saving Senator Sasse
  66. Short Take: History, Empowered
  67. Short Take: Evergreen’s “Direct Threat” Unspoken (Update: Threat Disclosed)
  68. The Attack on the “Resistance Police”
  69. Short Take: The Problem With Justice
  70. A “Conceptual Ledge” To The Slippery Slope of TrumpLaw

May 2017

  1. Kopf: The Question of Sentencing Disparity, Part 2
  2. Short Take: Kentucky’s Dumbest
  3. Racial Profiling: McDonald’s Spin
  4. Short Take: The Princeton Man
  5. Humility In The Center of the Universe
  6. Portland’s Powderkeg Problem
  7. Memorial Day 2017
  8. White Windmills
  9. Health Insurance Plus Cancer
  10. Three Men In Portland Who Did Something
  11. Bret Weinstein Meets The Downward Spiral of Social Justice
  12. Nowhere, Man
  13. Only The Pure Shall Prevail
  14. The Fourth Circuit’s Establishment Of The TrumpLaw Doctrine
  15. Cross: IJ’s Scott Bullock, So They Can’t Take Your Home
  16. Eat, Prey, Love (Burrito Edition)
  17. Short Take: Gianforte’s Last Slam
  18. Short Take: The ABA’s Binders Full of Women
  19. Kopf: The Question of Sentencing Disparity, Part 1
  20. A Grande Gesture
  21. Flynn’s Fifth
  22. The Teacups Of The Legal Aid Society
  23. Now Rod Rosenstein?
  24. Where Law and Politics Meet
  25. Taking One For The Team
  26. Eat A ‘Peach
  27. Fear and Loathing In Law School
  28. Silence Of The Black-Suited Goons
  29. Cuomo: One Law For You, One Law For Them
  30. Short Take: No Cissies In The Trenches
  31. Short Take: Traitorous Times
  32. In Missouri, Ankle Bracelets Are Forever (Update x2)
  33. Mueller On The Pedestal
  34. Kopf: Yossarian’s Revenge
  35. Betty Shelby’s Defense: Trained To Shoot Too Soon (Update)
  36. The Comey Obstruction Memo And Trump’s Mens Rea (Update)
  37. The Casual Student
  38. The Swiftian Sexpert
  39. Larry Tribe Is HUGE!!!
  40. Because Choke Holds Will Kill
  41. Open Thread: AG Sessions Channels Ghosts of Justice Past
  42. Short Take: For The Children, Any Source Will Do
  43. The Talk, Codified
  44. Short Take: Don’t Want To Be A Canadian Idiot
  45. Short Take: Objection Withdrawn
  46. The Death of the Presumption of Regularity
  47. Meyer-Lindenberg: Hate Speech: Never Go Full Europe
  48. Machado: Sick Nevadan Asks Jailers For Help, Ends Up Dead At Their Hands
  49. Short Take: The Gangs of New York
  50. Short Take: Jim Comey Terminated
  51. Short Take: The Battle of Condescenders
  52. Readjustment Of The Survivor/Immigrant Spectrum
  53. Short Take: Magic Cop Powers (Or Lab Tests Are For Losers)
  54. At Duke, The Divine and The Sublime (Update)
  55. Short Take: The Price of Activism
  56. Fighting Over The Final Thought
  57. Crime and Victim’s Control
  58. Short Take: Limits and Off Limits
  59. New York Upholds The Dumb Digit of Death
  60. Die, “Fake Law,” Die
  61. Pre-Existing Conditions: Risks and Rewards
  62. Mayor de Blasio’s Grace Is A Gift Too Far
  63. The Religion Leg Of The Stool
  64. Orleans District Attorney Sends The Taryn Blume Message
  65. Kopf: Alan Stoler
  66. Too Important To Be Neutral
  67. Short (But Brutal) Take: Enacting Philosophy
  68. Shifting Sentencing Blame
  69. Jordan Edwards, Inexplicably Dead
  70. If Only There Was A Way To Know
  71. Does Illegal Plus Illegal Equal Dismissal?

April 2017

  1. Short Take: Alternative Alternates
  2. The Road Warrior’s Dilemma
  3. Filipovic and A Women’s Entitlement To Fulfillment
  4. Short Take: If You’re Happy And You Know It
  5. Bret Stephens: Exquisitely Different Irresponsible Opinions
  6. Welcome Back, Drug War
  7. Short Take: The ACLU’s 50% Solution
  8. Stop (and Smell) The Fascist Roses
  9. The NOLA Subpoena Scam: Very Official And Very, Very Fake
  10. Short Take: Speed Racer Roberts
  11. A Sensitive Savage
  12. Berkeley’s 99 Problems
  13. Mario Machado: ICE’s VOICE Program Is A Complete Waste And A Disgrace
  14. Short Take: Men With Hats In Flint
  15. What He Wrote, What His Prof Read
  16. Sanctuary Cities Executive Order: A Battle For Hearts, Not Minds
  17. Sotomayor’s Dissent: SCOTUS Hearts Cops
  18. Short Take: Justice Douglas On Free Speech, 1958
  19. Alice Goffman: From Heroine to Goat
  20. The Free-Speech Tyranny of the Snowflake
  21. Harvard Law School: Name The Admitted Rapists
  22. Short Take: Do You Agree To Be Tased?
  23. Tolerance And A Bike Lock At Berkeley
  24. Short Take: Them’s Fighting Words
  25. Is Ledell Lee’s Blood On Gorsuch’s Hands?
  26. Bad Timing, Bad Choices, Bad Lawyers
  27. The Fabulous Women of the Glamorous ACLU
  28. The Cost Of A Last-Ditch Pitch
  29. Short Take: “Heckuva Job, Brownie,” They Say
  30. The Joke’s On Whom?
  31. Daily News To Justice John Galasso: Eric Lerner, Eric Lerner, Eric Lerner (Update x2)
  32. Short Take: Tomboys and Transgender
  33. A Twisted Prank With A Tragic Consequence
  34. Should SCOTUS Be Openly Activist?
  35. WomenLaw And The Right To Tampons
  36. Dark Demands Of Claremont’s “Black Intellectuals”
  37. Short Take: Friend Or Foe? A Side Is Chosen (Update)
  38. Is There A Right of Conscience?
  39. Short Take: Facts v. Truth
  40. Taught To Hate The Right People
  41. Slacktivists Don’t Buy At Liberty House
  42. When Wired Went Weird
  43. Norman Conley: A Lunatic And A Lunar Rock
  44. Short Take: The Discretion of the Court
  45. Wellesley Confronts Its Free Speech Demons
  46. Fearless Girl? Bull (Update)
  47. The Internet Didn’t Break It, But It’s Broken
  48. The Third Circuit’s (Support) Dog House
  49. Short Take: A Happy Ending
  50. It’s All Social Justice Until He’s Dead
  51. Dumb Muscle (Update)
  52. Short Take: Science, Sessions Style (NDAA Update)
  53. Perhaps Rick Hasen Didn’t Mean What Perhaps He Wrote
  54. Filipovic’s Dilemma: When Facts Are Against You
  55. The Meaning of Life, Emoji Edition
  56. History and Herstory: Condemned To Repeat It
  57. Short Take: The NY Times On America And SCOTUS
  58. New York City Finally Gets Body Cams. All Wrong
  59. Cuomo’s Folly: Follow The Money
  60. The Right Number To Flunk
  61. Counting To Nine
  62. The Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Duty, Social Justice Version
  63. The Nungesser Conundrum: A Guy Can’t Win
  64. The Perp Who Shall Not Be Described
  65. Miami’s Rule 35 Scam = No Honor Among Convicts (Past & Present)
  66. Facebook And The Losing Rainbow (Update)
  67. New York Times To Dems: Don’t Filibuster Gorsuch
  68. Seventh Circuit’s Hively Splits The Circuits (Update)
  69. Cross: Ed Whelan, An EPPC Eye On Judicial Confirmations
  70. Kopf: On Making Good And Real People Stupid
  71. Because Cultural Diss Is Different
  72. Cuomo’s Message: Mercy For One
  73. Mike Pence: Perv Or Just Not You?
  74. Millennial Guys And Dolls
  75. Lawyers Damned For Their Choice of Client. Again
  76. Second Circuit Threads The Sex Discrimination Needle
  77. Trump To ABA: Who?
  78. Prius Progressives: Tear Down That Rock

March 2017

  1. Gertruding On Gorsuch
  2. Justice Breyer: Speech Is Just A Social Construct
  3. Familial DNA Searches: Close Enough
  4. The Making of the Honest Broker
  5. The CYA of “Precedent”
  6. An Homage To The Dead and Dying
  7. Kopf’s Top Ten Observations About Criminal Defense Lawyers
  8. American College of Trial Lawyers Doesn’t Know It’s IX (Update)
  9. Cross: Bob Levy, Guiding Cato’s Vision of Justice
  10. The Null and Void Clause
  11. When Title IX Met Date Night
  12. Tag, You’re It
  13. Do Blue Lies Matter?
  14. The Casetext Pivot
  15. Lie v. Lie Is Not An Answer
  16. Appropriate All You Want; We’ll Make More
  17. Why Jacoby & Meyers Didn’t Go Pro Se
  18. Healthcare: Breaks and Brakes
  19. Lust, Lies And Statistics
  20. Judge Gorsuch And Mutually-Assured Destruction
  21. The Empathetic Textualist
  22. Tennessee’s Indigent Representation Task Force: We Win
  23. The Rubric Of The Border Excuse
  24. Cross: Kathryn Kase, Fighting Death In Texas
  25. The Senate Show
  26. Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth Kopf
  27. Chevron Creep
  28. Attack of the Killer GIFs (Update)
  29. The Iceman Cometh
  30. Selling Diversity, New And Improved!
  31. The “Ordeal” Is The Point
  32. Time For A Change
  33. Fungible Judge and The General Warrant
  34. The Double Down On Qualified Immunity
  35. Take Care (Of Trump) Blog
  36. The Apolitical Prosecutor Problem
  37. From the Greenhouse: The Bastardized Herzberg Theory
  38. Immigrants On The Precipice Of The Rule Of Law
  39. Cross: Josh Block, ACLU Lawyer Fighting For LGBT Rights
  40. A Fustian Bargain: Your Speech For His Feelz
  41. Prison Sucks, Women Hit Hardest
  42. Soft Cops, Hard Cops
  43. But For Video That Almost Wasn’t
  44. The Pleasure of the President
  45. Regrets Or Gas: We Never Really Know
  46. Don’t Preet Me, Bro
  47. Are Millennials Constant Drips? (Update)
  48. The “Pig’s Rectum” Exception
  49. Fault Lines Has Moved!
  50. The TSA’s Longer And Stickier Fingers
  51. UC Berkeley And The 20,000 Broken Promises
  52. Is It Muslim Ban 2.0?
  53. Racism Isn’t A Reason For A Jury To Convict
  54. A Quick Rumination On America
  55. Desperately Seeking A Crime
  56. Charles Murray’s Middlebury Speech Ungiven (Update)

February 2017

  1. Road Trip
  2. And The Oscar Goes Too
  3. Half A Crime
  4. Shirts And Skins
  5. Can Diversity Of Thought Co-Exist With Diversity?
  6. An (Undocumented) Immigrant’s Litmus Test
  7. The New York Times Is Not Invited
  8. Lawyer Watch
  9. Whelan’s Misplaced Blame: Constitutional Interpretation Killed No One
  10. Cross: Roger Pilon, Defending Liberty at Cato
  11. The Fake Law Narrative Won’t Help Transgender Students
  12. The Land Of Limited Opportunity
  13. Provoked And Triggered: The End Of Milo?
  14. White House Calling
  15. Let No Offense Get Through
  16. Reflections Of The “Good” Judge
  17. Dinner At Le CouCou (The Day After)
  18. A Call From Area Code 202
  19. For A Nickel I Will
  20. The Physician’s Place (Update)
  21. WOZO In Knoxville
  22. The Donald And The Spooks (Update)
  23. No @Reason, Attorney-Client Privilege Is Not Subject To The Third-Party Doctrine
  24. Posner And The “Trump Exception” To Principle
  25. Cross: Patrick Frey, Prosecutor By Day and Patterico Online
  26. Space Aliens At The Border
  27. When The Rent Comes Due in de Blasio’s New York
  28. Returning Existing Law To Existing Law
  29. Thug Theory: Will It Work?
  30. Ten Years After
  31. Trump’s Totally New And Evil War Against Immigrants
  32. Will Jeff Sessions Really Matter?
  33. The Elastic Power Of Attornies*
  34. Schumer’s Cool Senator Trick
  35. But It *Could* Happen
  36. A Sociologist’s View Of Free Speech
  37. Making Sense Of An Unserious Position
  38. The One Data Point Of Oral Argument
  39. Best of Intentions In The Battle For Bucks
  40. Cross: Caleb Kruckenberg, Helping Others, No Matter Which Side He’s On
  41. Civil Forfeiture, From The Top
  42. The Senate’s Insidious Hypocritical Rebuke (Update)
  43. Begging The Word Rape
  44. Race To The Bottom, Audi Edition
  45. The Rubicon Of Knowledge
  46. The Trump Effect: Criminal Law Reform From The Trenches
  47. Greenhouse Trolls C.J. Roberts: Are You Manly Enough?
  48. A Great Guy, A Lousy Judge: So What? (Update)
  49. The Mechanics of Irreparable Harm
  50. Will The Crime of Hallways Finally Be Over?
  51. The Berkeley Revolution
  52. Campus Rape, The TV Show
  53. Where The Boys Are
  54. A Side Of Anarchy
  55. Alternative Facts, Civil War Edition
  56. Cross: Tom Mesereau, Defending The Famous And Difficult
  57. Bork, Garland and Gorsuch: Bombs Away?

January 2017

  1. Godwin’s Law, And Why Hysteria Won’t Win The Day
  2. Book Review: The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities
  3. The Baylor Conspiracy
  4. Crisis? What Crisis?
  5. Dinner at Le Coucou (Update)
  6. Amidst Global Turmoil, The Immigration Fiasco
  7. The Donna Hylton Dilemma
  8. The Immigrant Chops
  9. From Sharktank To Drunktank
  10. Reporters Reporting Rioters Rioting
  11. Downstream Law And The Second Amendment
  12. Floyd Abrams v. Publius
  13. The Arrests That Weren’t
  14. Cross: Liliana Segura, Putting The Human Face on Injustice
  15. The Price Of Quality of Life
  16. Silencing Nair Rodriguez: Of Pigs, Cowards And Killer Cops
  17. NY Times To Resurrect The Serial Campus Rapist Myth (Update)
  18. Bet You Can’t Read Just One
  19. Facts And Alternative Facts
  20. Women, Inc.
  21. The Last Credible Voice
  22. The Revealing Punch
  23. Failing The Milo Test (Update)
  24. The Carnage Stops Here
  25. Chevron Deference: Kill And Overkill
  26. A Tale Of Two Nations
  27. The Traffic Cam Tale: Hilarious, Ridiculous And Likely Malarkey (Update)
  28. Crowdsourcing Death
  29. Cross: Josh Blackman, A Fearless Constitutional Contrarian
  30. A Sign Of The Times, Anti-Death Penalty Protesters Arrested At SCOTUS (Update)
  31. Commit Or Committed: Dying On Education Hill
  32. The Pink Tent
  33. He Liked To Watch
  34. An Unpardonable Failure (Update)
  35. The Children Of The Fight
  36. The Limits Of Hero Worship
  37. Traditions And Laws
  38. From Dry Foot To Wet Back
  39. The Long March
  40. The Magical Doctrine of Qualified Immunity
  41. Forfeiting Ferraris Fine, Second Circuit Says
  42. A Prosecutor’s Privilege
  43. @TheFIRE Under #DearBetsy
  44. Cross: Tim Young, Leading Ohio’s Public Defenders
  45. A Flash Bang Too Far
  46. Sessions And The Previously Unprotected
  47. Puppy Bowl
  48. Andy Cuomo Starts His Run To Be The Next President
  49. The Problem With Jeff Sessions
  50. Teaching The Bottom Of The Lawyer Barrel
  51. The Remote Was Universal, So He Must Pay
  52. To Petition For Redress Of Milo Grievances
  53. The Social Justice Upcharge
  54. The Times, They Are A’Changing
  55. Techdirt Got Gawkered
  56. An Expert Opinion
  57. The UConn Finger: Noriana Radwan Fights Back
  58. A Beat Down In Polite Society
  59. Obama On Obama On Criminal Reform
  60. “Every Woman’s Worst Nightmare” (Update)
  61. The Meaning Of “Social” In Social Work
  62. Gov. Cuomo Sticks A Knife Into His Progressive Lie (Update)
  63. Catherine Lhamon: Come On Baby Light My FIRE
  64. The Old Folks Home
  65. Free Speech Isn’t Free If There’s A Price
  66. Special Rights For Special Needs
  67. And The 2016 Jdog Award Goes To…
  68. Evidence v. “Enlightenment”: The Unfairness Of It All
  69. 2017 Regulating Fantasy, Returning Reality

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