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Simple Justice

2019–2020

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December 2020

  1. 2020 Out
  2. Short Take: Safety Abhors A Vacuum
  3. Worse*, Because Reasons
  4. Prickett: An Ex-Cop’s Rebuttal To Christopher Young
  5. Mike Pence, Minister of Magic
  6. Halkides: Expectation Bias and the Patricia Stallings Case
  7. Cop Myths Debunked, Or Not
  8. Short Take: He Taught Her A Lesson
  9. Schools Are Bad, So Make Them Worse
  10. The Efficacy of Police Lies
  11. School Debt and Lawyers Who Do Good
  12. Seaton: The Problematic “Santa Clause”
  13. Merry Christmas 2020
  14. The Pardon Power and The Value of Mercy
  15. Short Take: The Feminist Pandemic
  16. Are Paintings of Dead White Judges Racist? (Update)
  17. Short Take: Then Came The Grievances
  18. Can Section 230 Be Reformed?
  19. Tuesday Talk*: Is This What They Meant By “Moral Clarity”?
  20. Congress Too “Credentialed”?
  21. An “Uninformed” Defense
  22. Prickett: The Shooting of Daniel Hernandez
  23. That Personal Touch
  24. Kopf: A Short Take on “Special” Federal Judges And The Vaccine
  25. The Bioethics Of Disadvantaged Distribution
  26. Seaton: Crowdsourced Smart-Assery, “Caption This” Edition
  27. Losers In The Identity War
  28. Death and Offense
  29. The Chorizo Chronicles* (Update x2)
  30. The “Crime Beat” Questioned
  31. Sanction The Kraken?
  32. Inside The Box (v. Henderson)
  33. It’s Just A Matter of Trust
  34. Revenge Of The Honorifics
  35. Cuomo’s State of Denial
  36. That’s Entertainment
  37. Short Take: Proud of What?
  38. Grace In Defeat
  39. Seaton: Crime and Punishment, Pandemic Edition
  40. Top Down Equity
  41. Lawyer Speech Code Held Unconstitutional
  42. Delisted For Diversity
  43. The Sustainability of Los Angeles
  44. Judging Without Fear Or Favor
  45. Tuesday Talk*: What If Schools Open But Certain Students Stay Home?
  46. No Marvel For Title IX
  47. Short Take: The Vulgar And The Scold
  48. Protest Naked
  49. “They” Is Or “They” Ain’t
  50. Leave Jenna Alone
  51. Prisoners On The Vaccine Line
  52. Seaton: Sheriff Roy, The Crossing Guard
  53. A Losing Season
  54. Short Take: Got Comments?
  55. Seizing Defeat, The Competition
  56. Short Take: Who Begs Your Pardon?
  57. diGenova’s Foul Mouth: Taken Out And Shot
  58. Tuesday Talk*: Trial Or Not
  59. Bad Judge, Good Judge, Wait And See

November 2020

  1. Cite
  2. In France, Blame Le Système
  3. God v. Science, Constitutionally Speaking
  4. A Minefield Not Your Own
  5. Seaton: Deputy Miranda’s Thanksgiving Guest
  6. Lame Duck Executions
  7. Thanksgiving, 2020
  8. Sneaky Law That’s Not From Credible Sources
  9. Honestie, Uncuffed
  10. Tuesday Talk*: Defund Police, The Video
  11. Frisco First, Boudin Charges A Cop
  12. Questions Are Easy; Proof Is Hard
  13. Cash Bail Redux: Does It “Criminalize Poverty”?
  14. Will Kamala Make Prosecutors Great Again?
  15. Patriot Games
  16. Seaton: Saturday At The Knoll
  17. Money Back Guarantee
  18. Otte: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Board
  19. The Missionary Position
  20. Short Take: Rose, By Any Other Name
  21. Mark and Dahlia The Butchers
  22. Tuesday Talk*: Should Student Debt Be Canceled?
  23. Opportunity Cost of Certitude
  24. The Gig Is Up
  25. Gaming The 1887 Count Act
  26. Up In Smoke
  27. The Privilege Tax
  28. There Is No Magical Plan To Stop COVID
  29. Seaton, Roasted
  30. 1st Circuit Establishes The “Harvard Says So” Doctrine
  31. The Last Vote Cast
  32. Toobin’s Fall From Grace
  33. Short Take: New York Finally Enacts An Anti-SLAPP Law
  34. When Reason Seemed Obvious
  35. Why Not, Dave? (Update)
  36. Dear Altice
  37. Covid And The Hangover
  38. The Spare
  39. Short Take: Not “All Cops,” But This Cop
  40. The Marching Dead
  41. Seaton: Unsolicited Advice
  42. Defendant Trump?
  43. Blown Opportunity
  44. No Calm No Matter Who Wins
  45. Bravery, Redefined
  46. Down Ballot Drugs
  47. Tuesday Talk*: The Day After
  48. Feces and A Properly Stated Rule
  49. Law and Logistics: What To Do?
  50. Voting, Thinking and Blaming
  51. Graham’s Disgrace
  52. Scandalous Science

October 2020

  1. A Peaceful Transition of Power
  2. Seaton: A Mayor In Quarantine
  3. Litigating Ideology
  4. Poverty Is Not A Crime, But Is It A Defense?
  5. Voting and Counting: What’s SCOTUS Got To Do With It?
  6. The Philadelphia Story
  7. Tuesday Talk*: Does SCOTUS Need Fixing?
  8. Virginia Ends “The Jury Penalty”
  9. Cool Grift, Dauber
  10. Will California Repeal Equal Protection?
  11. The Pledge of Acceptance
  12. Old Men, Explained
  13. Sex and Salience
  14. Seaton: Crowdsourced Smart-Assery (Toobin Edition)
  15. Google’s Bing Defense
  16. Prickett: Dodging Responsibility in the Breonna Taylor Case
  17. Short Take: Why Not Black Law Grads?
  18. What About The 545 Children?
  19. Kopf: A Short Take on Selecting Supreme Court Justices
  20. Chemerinsky Hates Confrontation
  21. Bunin Review: The FIRE’s “Mighty Ira”
  22. No Busts But Bare Shelves
  23. Was the 1619 Project Squandered By Its Falsehoods?
  24. Judge Hurd Rejects “All Men Are Guilty”
  25. Cattle Calls And Elevator Racism
  26. The Evil DiFi (And Us)
  27. The Biden Wars Have Begun
  28. The Crash of Real Problems
  29. Seaton: Mr. Graham’s Circus Comes To Washington
  30. Short Take: Should Vance Be Anti-Racist?
  31. Tool Of The Heart
  32. Machado: ICE to Local DA, Bite Me
  33. Confirmation Bias
  34. The Radical Right To Rights
  35. A Panic, A Simple Solution and The Developmentally Disabled
  36. The Party of Lincoln
  37. Short Take: Biden’s Bar
  38. Barrett’s Confirmation, But Harris’ Job Interview
  39. Did You Know About Hannah Fizer?
  40. Seaton: Vice Presidential Promo Class
  41. Yelp, Weaponized and Canceled
  42. Short Take: Outrage, Misdirected
  43. When SCOTUS Gets The Data Wrong
  44. Closing California Until COVID Stops Being Racist
  45. The Transitional Presidency
  46. Tuesday Talk*: Civility or Existential Crisis?
  47. A Clerk, But Just A Clerk
  48. Short Take: Obstruction Happens
  49. Neither Ally Nor Wrong
  50. Magical Arbitrators and Public Sector Unions
  51. Crunchy Numbers Don’t Lie
  52. Mastering Wokese
  53. Returning To Riots: BLM and the “Real Looters”
  54. Seaton: Presidential Promo Class
  55. What’s Next?
  56. The Judge Who Called Purdue Naked
  57. If Roles Were Reversed: Don’t Give Up

September 2020

  1. The Death of Debate
  2. Tuesday Talk*: Disclosing The Breonna Taylor GJ Transcript
  3. Raising Journalists
  4. Taxing Times For Trump
  5. Will Barrett Get An Avenatti Moment?
  6. Kopf: Judge Laurie Smith Camp is Dead
  7. Short Take: A Litmus Test Video
  8. Supreme Certainty
  9. Seaton: A Mayor, A Sheriff and The Card
  10. It’s Only New To You
  11. The Murder of Breonna Taylor
  12. Short Take: It Was Never 1619
  13. An 18-Year SCOTUS Term; Can It Happen?
  14. Tuesday Talk*: Victims and Venues
  15. What Did Flag Guy Do To You?
  16. Prickett: Mental Health and The Use of Force
  17. Worth A Thousand Words
  18. Toobin’s “Retribution”
  19. The Return of Broken Windows
  20. Seaton: My Encounter With RBG
  21. Ride An Elephant
  22. Seaton: Local Tips For Country Living
  23. Princeton’s Confession: Racism or Wokeness?
  24. Short Take: Is There A “Minneapolis Effect”?
  25. New York City In the Rearview Mirror
  26. Bad Bail Begets Bad Reaction
  27. Why Protest in Lancaster?
  28. Between Critical Race Theory and Trump
  29. Curiosity Or Support: So What?
  30. Saving New York City
  31. Two Deputies Shot, Below The Fold (Update x4)
  32. Short Take: Katyal, For The Prosecution
  33. Short Take: The Last Black Chief
  34. Without Tear Gas And The Mob
  35. Seaton: A Sheriff, A Mayor and A Slogan
  36. 9/11, Footnote or Tool?
  37. Reinoehl And The New Regularity
  38. Actors Equity
  39. Serious Fixes To Traffic Stops
  40. Canceling The Curmudgeon
  41. Prickett: Prosecutor To Judge, “Hold My Beer”
  42. Ad Homonym
  43. Facebook Allows Only Guilty Talk
  44. Short Take: Posin’ Like You Opposin’
  45. Dog-Whistling Past The Rubble
  46. Kopf: A Short Take on Left-Handed Monkey Wrenches
  47. Short Take: Videos Come Full Circle
  48. A Really Futile and Stupid Gesture
  49. Seaton: #Butthisemails With New Dispatches From Mud Lick
  50. “Hostile Crowd Forming”
  51. Where Are the Liberal Warriors?
  52. Heroes, Victims and Pedestals
  53. NYPD’s Matrix
  54. Tuesday Talk*: Did Biden Do What Had To Be Done?
  55. Workers’ Leverage

August 2020

  1. Meyer-Lindenberg: Hating An Ugly American
  2. Short Take: In The Zone
  3. Glass Houses
  4. Dead In Portland, Start or Finish?
  5. Seaton: Meetings Not Taken, Laws Not Needed
  6. Anarchy And Entropy In Minneapolis
  7. Seaton: Stud Storytime
  8. Prickett: Update on Kenosha
  9. Angels And Demons In America
  10. Short Take: Wrong House Raid Can’t Be Right
  11. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt In 1985
  12. Prickett: The Response of the Oppressed
  13. Two Dead In Kenosha
  14. Dots Prosecutors Never Before Connected
  15. Kenosha Burning
  16. Short Take: Portland’s Prosecution Problem
  17. Scholarship and “Correct” Answers
  18. Cy Vance’s Old Stories And New Narratives
  19. Short Take: The Doctor Is Out (Protesting)
  20. Portandia Bowl Spreads To The ‘Burbs
  21. Biden’s Empathy, But Not For You
  22. Irrational Numbers: Charting Discriminatory Voting
  23. Seaton: In Memoriam, Stu Baker’s Career
  24. Yale Catches Braasch In Its “22”
  25. 323,911 Accusations Amounting To What?
  26. A New Honorific In The Mx?
  27. California’s Uber Verschlimmbessern*
  28. Short Take: The Magical Mailbox
  29. The Floyd Question That Can’t Be Asked
  30. Tuesday Talk*: Bernie’s Next Election
  31. The Guys Without Badges
  32. Short Take: Portland State Disarms Its Cops
  33. When All Wrong Words Are “Fighting Words”
  34. Filipovic’s Bleak House
  35. Best Shampooing Ever
  36. Hamilton-Smith: Good Morning I Am Full of Rage
  37. Canceling Adolph
  38. Short Take: Protest of the Prius Progressives
  39. Seaton At The Movies: Hudson Hawk
  40. Yale Discriminates (But?)
  41. Sworn To Discriminate
  42. Truth Be Told
  43. Looting For The Cure (Update)
  44. Reimagining Kamala
  45. Tuesday Talk*: What’s A Black Lawmaker To Do?
  46. Looting Chicago
  47. Princeton Goes For The Title IX Jug Handle
  48. Seaton: The Drew Dilemma
  49. Short Take: Can The NYPD Be This Stupid? Yes
  50. Which Is To Be Master?
  51. The New Cops On Lawn Chairs
  52. Seaton: Lawyers, Baseball and Money
  53. UNC Daily Tar Heel Proudly Destroys Students’ Lives
  54. Cancel Culture Karma
  55. Judge Reeves’ Masterful Advocacy
  56. The Obvious, Nerdy and Ridiculous Math Question
  57. The Jenga Theory and Abolishing Police
  58. Death Of The MeTooSTEM Lie
  59. Short Take: Federal Judges Exposed, Rerobe
  60. Law Deans: The Bloodless Way To Kill All The Lawyers
  61. Misdemeanors In The Age of COVID
  62. The Home Line
  63. Reporters In The Crowd
  64. Dress For Success

July 2020

  1. Seaton: Crowdsourced Smart-Assery (Times Edition)
  2. Trader Joe Says “No”
  3. The Bad “Optics” Of A Lawful Arrest
  4. 2 Women 1 Senator*
  5. Prickett: Open Letter to Grant Scheiner, President of the TCDLA
  6. Drunken Regret, Who’s Responsible?
  7. The Standing Choice
  8. Tuesday Talk*: Pro Publica, Publish or Perish (Update)
  9. Maud Maron Exposes Legal Aid’s “Fragility”
  10. The Comfort Of The Few For The Rights Of The Many
  11. “As We Blocked Streets,” The Fantasy
  12. King: Has Cancel Culture Come To Texas?
  13. Naked Athena, To Cheer or Jeer?
  14. When Gnats Becomes Bullies
  15. Seaton: The Crazy Origin of the UFC
  16. Reporters In The Middle Of The Storm
  17. Mayor Ted Shows Up At Portlandia Bowl
  18. The Pod People’s Kids
  19. 3 Posts, No Posts
  20. Tuesday Talk*: What’s The PDX End Game?
  21. Mom Team Enters Portlandia Bowl
  22. The Blind Hearing The Blind
  23. Sullivan’s Prerogative
  24. The Pedagogy of Caving In To The Contentious
  25. Robin Who
  26. Kopf: I Hope Justice Ginsburg Hangs On
  27. In Michelle’s Defense
  28. Portlandia Bowl
  29. Seaton: Drunk, Drunker and A Dog
  30. Berkeley’s Mencken Corps
  31. The Convenient Squishiness of the “Social Penalty”
  32. The Coming Ethical Minefield (Update)
  33. Short Take: Museum of the Dark Arts
  34. A Discouraging Word
  35. A Cop and Cop A Feel
  36. To Reform Cops, Be One
  37. Do You Anti-Racist?
  38. Cancel Culture, Defined (Update)
  39. Painting The Road To Hell
  40. Greg’s List
  41. Seaton’s Consumer Review: Palm Phones
  42. Short Take: Blame The Liberals
  43. Supreme Court, Kafka Presiding
  44. Readers Mailbag No. 9,236: To Forgive, Divine
  45. Bail Reform Isn’t To Blame
  46. The Meta Letter
  47. Tuesday Talk*: Does Amy Cooper Need To Be Prosecuted?
  48. Cancel Culture Blames At-Will Employment
  49. Lowery’s Reckoning: Black News and Honest Brokers
  50. Tyranny Of The Minority
  51. Short Take: The Karen Chronicles
  52. Cops Lie; So Does Everyone Else
  53. America, The Beautiful
  54. America, The Minefield
  55. Seaton: I’m A Motivational Speaker!
  56. The Creep of Disparate Impact
  57. The Bravery of the In Crowd
  58. More Guns, More Peace?
  59. An E For Effort Isn’t Excellence
  60. After The First Shot, Drive

June 2020

  1. Tuesday Talk*: Canceling George Washington
  2. Short Take: Where Did The Overton Window Go?
  3. No Football In Kansas
  4. A Matter of Degree
  5. Violins In Aurora
  6. Debate: Is Criminal Law Racism Systemic?
  7. Books Thrown and the Misunderstood Legacy of Judge Frankel
  8. Short Take: The Price of Protest
  9. The Master of The Word
  10. Seaton: Statues I’d Like To See Toppled
  11. Short Take: Dinner Talk
  12. A Tough Time For Brave Voices
  13. Thursday Talk*: Reparations? Nikole Hannah-Jones Says Now
  14. Cruiser Conundrum: When There’s No Good Choice
  15. Landrum: Words Still Matter
  16. Uneducated Evidence That Education Failed
  17. New York Times Killed Slate Star Codex
  18. The New Monell: Chris Rock
  19. NY PBA President Lynch Argues For The End of Public Sector Unions
  20. “System” Failure
  21. Their Guns, Your Guns
  22. About That Privilege
  23. When Berman Won’t Go
  24. Seaton: Nation Tells Fauci to Pound Sand
  25. Short Take: When The Punch Doesn’t Fit
  26. Wendy’s Burned, But Will Rolfe Walk?
  27. Kopf: A Short Take on Judge Silberman and The Law Clerk
  28. Creating A Cop’s Duty To Intervene
  29. Is Being A Lawyer A Reason To Deny Bond?
  30. Marketing The Least Dangerous Branch
  31. Tuesday Talk*: Has The Battle Been Joined?
  32. Bostock Changes Everything
  33. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Taser
  34. Moral Panic And Hitting The Gas
  35. Simpson Says
  36. Can Police Unions Be Prohibited?
  37. Sometimes “Abolish” Means Abolish
  38. Seaton: My Commencement Speech To The Class of 2020
  39. Short Take: Can Community Colleges Afford Title IX?
  40. NYPD Lieutenant Gives A Weak Performance
  41. Kopf: A Short Take On “This You?” And The Children
  42. Could UCLA’s Klein Just Say No?
  43. The Devil His Due: Nuance or Hysteria?
  44. New York’s Notorious 50-a Repealed
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Let’s Put On A Play!
  46. Cleaning Up The Dead Bodies of Change
  47. Lumpy Racism
  48. The Journalist’s Duty To Lie
  49. Short Take: Three Lefts Make A Right
  50. Defund Media (Update)
  51. Short Take: Chesterton’s Cops
  52. The Buffalo 57 (Update)
  53. Seaton: The Friday Fail Tournament of Champions
  54. Short Take: All The News That Fits
  55. Break-Ins Are the Price: Will We Pay It?
  56. Short Take: Picking Cotton
  57. Short Take: Cop Killings in Black, White and Read
  58. Upcharging Chauvin: A Fool’s Gambit?
  59. Short Take: The Bombs Lawyers Throw
  60. Overselling QI: The Miracle of the Moment
  61. Tuesday Talk*: The Looting Dilemma
  62. Prickett: We Issue Body Cams for a Reason, Chief
  63. 3rd Circuit on Title IX: Not Such A Case
  64. Short Take: Not All Cops
  65. The Rationale For Riots

May 2020

  1. Prickett: Taking a Knee
  2. Roasted Coffee
  3. Qualified Immunity Is “A Problem” But Not “The Problem”
  4. Chauvin Charged, But Is It Legally Sufficient?
  5. Seaton: Sheriff Roy and the Health Inspector
  6. Twitter To Trump: Challenge Accepted (Update)
  7. Progressively Prosecuting The Patriarchy
  8. A Second Chance For Black Lives Matter
  9. Trying Too Hard to Explain Title IX
  10. The Rush of Anonymous Power
  11. Tuesday Talk*: COVID Come Fall, What To Do?
  12. But For Video: Gamble in the Ramble
  13. Not Today, Memorial Day, New York Times
  14. When The Judge Lawyers Up
  15. An Homage To Freedom and Discrimination in America
  16. Where Have You Gone, Walter Olson?
  17. This *Could* Happen (Or Not)
  18. Seaton: John Drinks At The End (Again)
  19. Short Take: Tara Reade, Expert From Antioch
  20. Francesco Parisi And The Damage Done
  21. Short Take: Stealing From Jessop, Still Fine
  22. Will Grabs Plea Bargaining By The Tail
  23. The Other Type of False Rape
  24. Writing Law Is Hard; Unwriting Even Harder
  25. Tuesday Talk*: Enjoined, For Their Own Good
  26. All or Nothing, It’s All About Believing
  27. Does College Owe You A Refund?
  28. Kidnapping Or A Mother’s Hysteria?
  29. The First Scratch
  30. The Big “Believe All Women” Lie That Sits Atop All the Little Lies
  31. Judge Sullivan’s Hot Bench
  32. Seaton: Sheriff Roy and the iPhone Pervert
  33. ACLU, The New American Prosecutor
  34. Money Makes The Schools Go ‘Round
  35. Wisconsin Supreme Court Badgers Andrea Palm
  36. Free Dana Bazelon
  37. Short Take: Gaming The Prison COVID Problem
  38. Schrödinger’s Tax Returns
  39. Tuesday Talk*: Judge Chatigny’s Choice of Words
  40. The Title IX Pendulum That Wasn’t
  41. Short Take: Essential or What? Alvarado’s Constitution
  42. Can We Do It Like South Korea?
  43. Presumed Innocent, Not Accurate
  44. San Antonio’s Kung Fu Fighting
  45. The Arbery Video: Alan Tucker Chose Poorly
  46. The Wrongful Conviction Of The Not That Innocent
  47. Seaton: People You Meet In A Pandemic
  48. Did DoE Forget Why Title IX Exists?
  49. Because You’re Not Flynn
  50. Biden’s Very Short-Lived Epiphany
  51. The New Title IX Regs, For Better And Worse
  52. Our Rights End Where His Feelings Begin
  53. Tuesday Talk*: At Least It’s Honestly Unprincipled
  54. A Pulitzer For The Post-Fact Era
  55. Prickett: Sometimes An Officer Is Just Wrong
  56. Release The New Title IX Regs, Madam Secretary
  57. Short Take: Truthers and Martyrs
  58. The First Monday On The Telephone
  59. Lockdown and The Reimagined Social Contract
  60. Seaton: Frankenstein’s Consumer Spam Email
  61. How Do You Plead, Joe Biden?

April 2020

  1. When Book Banning Meets Hypocrisy
  2. One Hole Down
  3. Short Take: The Seven Womxn
  4. Beware The Biden Shift
  5. Van Wagner: Big C and the COVID
  6. NY Successfully Moots The Constitution
  7. Random Thoughts Amounting To Nothing
  8. Short Take: Save The Jobs (But Don’t Kill The Businesses)
  9. Wealthy In The First Degree
  10. The Troubling Right To A Meaningful Education
  11. The Mob Reviewed Yale Law Journal
  12. Seaton: Fact or Fiction
  13. Short Take: A Vaccine From Elsewhere
  14. Bail Reform Too Far
  15. Are Jokes The Next Unfair Labor Practices?
  16. It’s Not Hard To Be A Snitch In The City
  17. Earth Day at 50
  18. Children Raising Children At Home
  19. Tuesday Talk*: Will This Change EVERYTHING?!?
  20. Damning A Justice With Woke Praise
  21. Politics and Pedagogy
  22. Cupcakes And Criminals: Business Is Bad
  23. You Are What You (Choose To) Eat
  24. A Walk On The Beach
  25. Is Remdesivir The New Hydroxychloroquine?
  26. What Happened To Gloria?
  27. Seaton: Unsolicited Opinions, Pandemic Edition
  28. Heroes, Hospitals and Transparency
  29. Seaton: Guilty of Murder By Broadcast Cable
  30. Masking The Real Problem
  31. Short Take: Dress For Success, Florida Lawyers
  32. What About Pandemic In Cuomo’s Prisons? (Update)
  33. Tuesday Talk*: Hanging On The Telephone
  34. As The Goldbergs Flip, The Sham Is Revealed
  35. Kopf: A Short Counter To The NYT’s Snarky Review Of “Trolls World Tour”
  36. On Twitter, Falsely Reporting A Crime May Not Be A Crime
  37. Judge Walker’s Easter Bomb
  38. Easter In Kansas
  39. Small Business: How Does It Work?
  40. Seaton: PNN Evening News
  41. Hanging Ellen On The Gallows Of Humor
  42. Can Bernie Win By Losing?
  43. Due Process And The Biden Exception
  44. Any Port In A Pandemic
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Is It Soup Yet?
  46. Burning Arbitration Down
  47. The Power Of Drama
  48. Can The “Single Investigator” Model Ever Be Fundamentally Fair?
  49. Voting In A Pandemic: Is Risking Death A Civic Duty?
  50. The Speed of Mediocrity? Zoom
  51. The Dull Ache Of A Fool’s Voice
  52. Seaton: When Title IX Meets COVID-19
  53. Dunning-Kushner Syndrome
  54. When Therapist Becomes Title IX Adviser
  55. COVID Meets Culture
  56. For Barleycorn: Your Turn
  57. Short Take: Victims Of The One-Trick Ponies
  58. The Law School Class of 2020

March 2020

  1. Tuesday Talk*: The Right Time For Regs
  2. Viral Profits
  3. A Time To Preach
  4. Machado: DOJ’s Long Arm Reaches For Maduro
  5. McLeod’s Peeps: CoronaVirus Edition
  6. Smart People Stopping Trollies
  7. Do Your “Cheat Sheet”
  8. Dr. Fauci And The Pedestal of Politics
  9. For Validation’s Sake
  10. How Do You Stop A Problem Like University of Michigan?
  11. Seaton: Glen The Grocery Store Greeter
  12. The Job of Survival
  13. Housekeeping: Video Killed The Commenting Star
  14. Short Take: The Heroes And The Other Heroes
  15. The Prisoners’ Dilemma
  16. Seaton: Taking The SJ Show On The Road
  17. Professor Michael Curtis’ Fighting Words
  18. Tuesday Talk*: The Chaos Theory of Stimulus
  19. Kahler v. Kansas: Mitigation And Defense Are Not The Same
  20. Judge Pinky Carr: The Idiot In The Courtroom
  21. Thanks To The People We Don’t See
  22. Pass or Fail When Everybody Gets An “A” (Update)
  23. Even Paranoids Have The Department of Justice
  24. Kopf: A Short Review of the Pandemic and The District of Nebraska
  25. The Bill Came Due
  26. Seaton: Lock Down In Mud Lick
  27. Short Take: Sorry, Thurgood
  28. Mother’s Silly Rules
  29. Halkides: Taylor, Chamberlain And Presumptive Blood Testing
  30. When Linda Sued Ava
  31. The Check’s In The Mail
  32. The Business Of Bananas
  33. Tuesday Talk*: Your Turn
  34. Short Take: Biden Picks His Sarah Palin
  35. School’s Out
  36. Capitalism And The Profiteer
  37. Triage: If Choices Must Be Made
  38. Jenny From The Court
  39. Ex-ADA Gets Extra Two Months
  40. Seaton: Friday Funny Suspended Due To Corona Virus
  41. 6th Circuit: Suspend First Or Else
  42. Coronavirus, Courts and Jails
  43. Short Take: Biden, Bernie and Bouie
  44. Bipartisanship Achieved: Ruin Section 230
  45. Tuesday Talk*: How Much Should Inmates Be Paid?
  46. 10th Circuit Upholds Title IX “Railroading”
  47. Bo Winegard, Fired For Science
  48. The Progressive Problem: Is Purity For Losers?
  49. International Women’s Day? Melinda Says Talk About It
  50. Short Take: The Warren Fury
  51. Sentenced For Being Weinstein
  52. Seaton: Local Man Unconcerned With Coronavirus
  53. Privilege and Pandemic
  54. A Practical Warden
  55. Can “Restorative Justice” Fill The Gap?
  56. Schumer Knows
  57. Jim Tyre, RIP
  58. Debate: Enough With The “Technicality” Argument, Presumption of Innocence Matters
  59. Debate: Presumption of Innocence? Just Another Rule
  60. Tuesday Talk*: A Brief Too Far?
  61. Chris Matthews’ Last Pitch
  62. Speak All You Want, But Nobody Has To “Listen”
  63. District Attorneys To Defenders: There’s An App For That
  64. Lawyer Fashionista: Letting Your Freak Flag Fly

February 2020

  1. Discovery Reform, Courtesy of Axon
  2. Silence of the Immigration Judges
  3. Seaton: A Judge Goaded Too Far
  4. Iowa’s Novel Title IX Defense: Quasi-Judicial Immunity
  5. Casetext’s “Compose”: Tool or Crutch?
  6. The New Warren Court
  7. HLS Panel Shifts The Overton Platform
  8. The DA’s Disingenuous Lament
  9. No Bivens Across The Border
  10. Tuesday Talk*: Is Weinstein A Watershed?
  11. Technically Free To Leave in South Carolina
  12. The Pieties Of The Moment
  13. When Judges Get Goaded
  14. Genderless Google AI Meets “Free The Nipple”
  15. Your Car, Their Black Box
  16. I’ve Reached My Limit
  17. Seaton: The SFL Index
  18. The Myth v. Harvey Weinstein
  19. Wishes For Brother Gamso
  20. Should The Department of Justice Be An “Independent Agency”?
  21. Pure Heart, Empty Head? Stop & Frisk In Context
  22. Short Take: Then They Came For The Farmers
  23. A Sad Story Through Jaded Eyes
  24. Tuesday Talk*: The End of New Grad Clerkships
  25. Judge Jackson Doesn’t Work For Attorney General Barr
  26. Your Average Tenant
  27. Seaton: When Pre-K Goes Pre-Woke
  28. To The Editor
  29. Hamilton-Smith: Michigan’s SORA Finally Enjoined
  30. Leaving Dysfunction To Others
  31. Seaton: The Dog Ate The Discovery
  32. Short Take: Judge Reinhardt’s Obituary
  33. Jaylan Butler, Black Without Pretext
  34. 9th Circuit Goes Transformational
  35. NY Bail Reform, 6 Weeks Later
  36. Short Take: When Fairness Is A “Compromise”
  37. A Stone’s Throw
  38. Brooklyn Flight: Why Are ADAs Quitting?
  39. Title IX’s Next Dive Down The Rabbit Hole: Dating Violence
  40. Oscar Open Thread: Are We Saved?
  41. Free The Montana Four
  42. Halkides: Compositional Bullet Lead Analysis, Minute Numbers with Infinitesimal Meaning
  43. Dreams
  44. #OscarsSoAngry
  45. Candidates Agree, It’s Racist
  46. Patricia Stone’s Plea Bargaining Payback
  47. Seaton: Be Glad You Don’t Know Jack
  48. The Other Equity, Defined
  49. Short Take: Any Compassion Left For Madoff?
  50. NYC Outlaws Broker’s Fees For Renters
  51. Short Take: NYC’s Designs For Prada
  52. Filling UC Berkeley’s Schrödinger Chair
  53. Iowa, Murder or Suicide?
  54. Tuesday Talk*: Iowa Plans, God Laughs
  55. Dersh: Wrong, But Not For That Reason
  56. Raise The Red Flag At Your Peril
  57. Short Take: Have You Heard?
  58. Theranos CEO Needs A Lawyer, Will Pay In Used Clothing
  59. Prosecute, Smear, Acquit
  60. Antifa Protests; Things Still Aren’t Free

January 2020

  1. Seaton: Horrible Book Titles For A Greater Good
  2. Was The Equal Rights Amendment Ratified?
  3. Weinstein: A Walker Too Far
  4. Canceling American Dirt
  5. When The Dictionary Is Broke
  6. Their Sledgehammer, Their Truth
  7. Kaiman and Kobe
  8. The Weird Status of Weed
  9. Circles of Outrage and Victimhood
  10. Kopf: A Bomb Is Dropped Hitting 2 Deserving Targets But Missing A Third
  11. What Would Hitch Do?
  12. Banking While Black at TCF Bank
  13. The Junk Science Of The “Rape Myth” Narrative
  14. Seaton: John Drinks At The End
  15. The Return of Cash
  16. Facebook, For The Prosecution
  17. The Stealth Juror: Why Risk Reversal?
  18. Sokolow’s Astute Observations On The Failure of Title IX
  19. Short Take: Breaking The Code
  20. The Dude Presides
  21. Martin Luther King Day 2020
  22. Who It Wants, Who It Will Take
  23. Can Section 230 Be Policed As A “Subsidy” To Platforms?
  24. Even Hypocrites Deserve A Defense
  25. Can A National Cataclysm Be Enjoined?
  26. Will IJ’s Class Action Shut Down TSA’s Cash Machine?
  27. Seaton: News You Need To Know
  28. The “Predator Pipeline” Fallacy
  29. Why? Did Lev Parnas Catch The Truth Flu? (Update)
  30. 5th Circuit’s Judge Duncan Begs Pronoun Controversy
  31. Short Take: Constitutional Tourists
  32. Riding The Crazy Train With Ian
  33. Short Take: Is “Defamation By Clickbait” A Thing?
  34. Hope For The Best, But Prepare For The Judge
  35. Where You Teach Is What You Teach
  36. 12 Years For No Juice
  37. Short Take: The Girlfriend Beater
  38. The Last Shakespearean Scholar
  39. Short Take: Should Mexico Enjoy Section 230?
  40. Your Cause, His Life
  41. Seaton: #ButHisEmails, Dispatches From Mud Lick, V.3
  42. Short Take: The Princess’ Pain
  43. Babson College’s Really Bad Reaction (Update)
  44. Short Take: Virginia Ain’t For Lovers
  45. Is It Time For A Defender General?
  46. But Enough About Me; What has Tessa Majors Done For Me
  47. Did It Start With Charlie Hebdo?
  48. Tuesday Talk*: Should Killer Cops Be Entitled to Privacy?
  49. UMass Amherst Isn’t Funny
  50. Weinstein and The Snowman
  51. But How’s The Food?
  52. One Day To Feel Bad
  53. New York Bail Reform, Day 3
  54. ABA Doubles Down With Model Rule 8.5
  55. Begging Cuomo’s Pardon
  56. Seaton: Dispatch From The Island
  57. Elie’s Farewell
  58. Weed Gets Its Hammer
  59. Short Take: Who Is “Passive Regressive”?
  60. The NYT Just Can’t Bring Itself To Do It (Update)
  61. Killers, Crazies and Stigma
  62. A Felon On The Jury

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December 2019

  1. Tuesday Talk*, End of The Decade Edition
  2. Return Of The Curmudgeon, 2019
  3. Short Take: Cleaning The Queens House
  4. Word of a Jailhouse Snitch
  5. The Only Thing Left To Abolish Is Reality
  6. Toward A Woke Constitution
  7. The Trickle Down Of Unconscious Male Bias
  8. Kopf: Top 10 Things That Made Me Laugh, Happy, Crazy or Sad, 2019
  9. Just 15 Years
  10. Is Schmaltz A Fascist Conspiracy?
  11. A Pardon For Christmas
  12. Merry Christmas 2019
  13. Tuesday Talk*: Petty Offenses of Constitutional Dimensions
  14. Lawyer, Left To Sleep On Park Bench, Sues Airbnb
  15. Three Minds, All Swearing To The Exact Same Words
  16. Confusing Doubt With Slant
  17. Harry Potter and The End of The Trans World
  18. Harvard Says Abolish
  19. An American Whine Cave
  20. Are Facts The Master Or The Servant Of Ideology?
  21. Seaton: More Unsolicited Opinions
  22. Rule Based Impeachment
  23. Short Take: When The Narrative Goes Awry
  24. Kopf: Burden of Proof and The Trial of The Impeachment of President Trump
  25. Not Too Small Claims
  26. Cuomo: Drunk Is A Rape “Loophole”
  27. The Mechanics of Impeachment, Act 2
  28. Tuesday Talk*: Master of Supremacy
  29. Rewriting The Wheel
  30. Tessa Majors and The Return of Fear Factor
  31. Stupid Reform? Blame The Judges
  32. Influence and Honesty
  33. Your Other’s Keeper
  34. The Price of Viral? $625,000
  35. Seaton: With Apologies To Dr. Seuss
  36. Short Take: Gretchen’s New Deal
  37. 6th Circuit Returns Title IX To Its Davis Root (Updated)
  38. It’s Okay, But Don’t Be A Dick About It
  39. Prosecution And A Side of Truth
  40. Eat A Peach
  41. The Message Sent To The False Accuser
  42. Tuesday Talk*: Why The Woke Go Broke
  43. With Friends Like These: The Influence of Prawfs
  44. The Impeachment Persuasion Dilemma
  45. Driving An Uber Down A Slippery Slope
  46. Short Take: “If” The Science Holds Up?
  47. Was Koz Supposed To Disappear?
  48. Steal This Mic
  49. Transparency Or Bust
  50. Seaton: A Very Mud Lick Christmas
  51. They Won’t Make It Home For Dinner
  52. McKinnon’s Transition and Goldman’s Gambit
  53. Short Take: Barr Syndrome
  54. Trashing Turley
  55. Two Lessons of Kamala: It’s Not The Boxes
  56. Two Lessons of Kamala: Harsh Is A Choice
  57. Short take: The One-Man Traffic Jam
  58. Evading Review
  59. California: If It Doesn’t Work, It Doesn’t Work
  60. The Missouri Wait

November 2019

  1. Short Take: Overwoke
  2. Innocence, After The Fact
  3. Seaton: Don’t Be A Dick Like J. Wade Smith
  4. The Other Mags, South Carolina Edition
  5. Catcalls And Killers
  6. Happy Thanksgiving, 2019
  7. Thanksgiving Need Not Blow
  8. Seaton: Thanksgiving With Sheriff Roy
  9. Thanksgiving With The “Why Guy”
  10. The Other Side of Unchecked Prosecutorial Power
  11. This Wasn’t How It Was Supposed To Work
  12. Fixing Rasmusen: What’s Indiana University To Do With Him?
  13. The Trouble With Grandchildren
  14. “Usual Cruelty,” Cool Words Revealing Absolutely Nothing
  15. Is Unenforcement The Solution For Racial Profiling?
  16. Seaton: Unsolicited Opinions
  17. The Ghettos Of Long Island
  18. Why Are They So Afraid of DNA?
  19. The First Circuit’s Shifting View of “Fairness”
  20. Support SJ, Make Money
  21. A Reply To Colonist Seaton’s Thanksgiving Slavery
  22. The Vapid New Standard of “Credibly Accused”
  23. Tuesday Talk*: Your Free Speech Ends At His Honor’s Feelings
  24. Their GPS Tracker, Your Car
  25. Short Take: Bloomberg’s Epiphany
  26. Colorado Prosecutor Jake Lilly Taints The Jury Pool
  27. Do You Antiracist Enough?
  28. Run For Her Life
  29. Santayana’s Revenge: No Jobs For History Profs
  30. “Jailbirds” Come Home For The Holidays
  31. Seaton: Celebrate Thanksgiving, Dammit
  32. Kopf: Murdering Judicial Collegiality
  33. Lazy Does A Lot of Work
  34. Cops, Unarmed
  35. Blame “Trauma Porn”
  36. Chesa Boudin and Pee Party Politics
  37. The Bullets of Attrition
  38. The Limit of Biden’s Moderation
  39. The Daily Northwestern, Where Journalism Committed Suicide (Update)
  40. What Will Warren “Own”?
  41. Remembering The Worst of Bloomberg: Stop & Frisk
  42. The Churro Test
  43. When 33 Writers Have No Quo In Their Quid
  44. Lawyer To The Millennials
  45. No Country For Billionaires
  46. Seaton: When Elmo Goes Woke
  47. The Evolved Live In Cities
  48. Short Take: Who’s Next, Prof? (Update)
  49. The PC Way To Set The Silverware
  50. When No One Applauds
  51. The X Factor
  52. Michael Harriot: Snarking While Black
  53. Tuesday Talk*: Raising Daughters To Be Gay
  54. You Heard Wrong
  55. Lithwick’s Whimpers
  56. Silence of the Bureaucrats
  57. Kopf: Two Questions About Crying
  58. Short Take: The Tears of a Clown
  59. The Doctor Is . . . Out
  60. Barry The Boomer
  61. Seaton: Helpful Hints for Happy Halloweens
  62. Short Take: Call Me Maybe?
  63. Screaming “Due Process” Doesn’t Make It So

October 2019

  1. A Convenient Lie At Arraignment
  2. When The ABA’s Letter Is Just A Plain Ol’ Lie
  3. Sorkin To His Choir: Blame Facebook And Free Speech
  4. Short Take: Now That Mattress Girl Is Fun At Parties
  5. Jeannie Suk Gersen Canceled By First Circuit (Update x3 Uncanceled)
  6. Revenge Porn Tested By Katie Hill, And Fails
  7. Jazz Hands In The Real World
  8. Analytics In The Hands of Children
  9. Will “Enacting Whiteness” Be The Alternative To Trump?
  10. Beyond The System’s Reach
  11. Waiting For Becker AutoSound’s Package (Update x2)
  12. Overton’s Dictionary
  13. Seaton: I’m Trademarking “Journalist”
  14. Short Take: The Tip of Morality
  15. The Seductive Nudge To Elevate Valuable Speech
  16. The Bubble Wrap Duty
  17. Before Anyone Knew, There Was Damilare Sonoiki
  18. Yelling The N-Word Into The Void
  19. A Long 4 Years, But Blame The Gang
  20. Tuesday Talk*: Taking A Bullet For Health Insurance
  21. Illinois Supreme Court Caves To Unconstitutional Revenge Porn Crime
  22. Closing Costs
  23. The Numbers Don’t Crunch: EthnoMath
  24. The Ruling Gerontocracy
  25. Judge Baker’s 241 Regrets
  26. Kopf: The Milk of Human Kindness and a CDL Named David Tarrell
  27. Gagliano Reflex
  28. Seaton: Sheriff Roy Investigates A Baptism
  29. Short Take: Fools And Their $8 Billion
  30. Free Speech Even The ACLU Can Support
  31. The Future of Pronouns
  32. It Happened, Just As We Knew It Would
  33. The Unreasonably Scared Aaron Dean
  34. Good Judge, Bad Judge
  35. Kopf: Oliver Wendell Holmes, As Real As It Gets
  36. Close Rikers Became Abolish Prisons
  37. Atatiana Jefferson’s Castle
  38. The “Pet” Justice Fallacy
  39. Seaton: The Ellen Effect, And The Death Of Honest Conversations
  40. Short Take: It’s Not About Your “Humanity”
  41. Any Touch Will Do
  42. Seaton: One Saturday Night Down South In Knoxville
  43. The Baer Necessities
  44. The Gender Apology Gap
  45. Short Take: Karlan’s Old School Framing Of Sex
  46. Franks’ Collectivist Approach To Liability
  47. Not All Process Is Due, Presidential Edition
  48. Publius Comes To Harvard
  49. Warren’s “Get Kav” Plan
  50. Cert Denied, Attack The Messenger
  51. The Ironic Ridiculousness Of Other People’s Peer Groups
  52. Who Murdered Joshua Brown? (Update)
  53. Ginger Baker
  54. Condescendingly Quitting
  55. Wrong Message On Right To Be A Juror
  56. Rage Over Grace
  57. Seaton: Deconstructing “The Purge”
  58. A Short Chat Inside David Brooks’ Head
  59. When Prison Is A Better Option
  60. Justice Mark Dwyer Won’t Quit On Science
  61. Harvard’s Admissions, Race And Rights
  62. Wrongful Conviction Day
  63. Guyger Guilty, But What Should She Get? (Update: 10 Years)
  64. Tuesday Talk*: Crime Goes Down, Rape Goes Up
  65. No Con For Canceled Omooba

September 2019

  1. TrumpWar
  2. “For The Children,” With A Vengeance
  3. Bunin: Review Of New TV Series, “all rise”
  4. Illegal In NYC
  5. What About Clients?
  6. The Great SJ “Oz” Giveaway! (And The Winner Is…)
  7. Seaton: Laughing, Because We Should
  8. Seaton: Fun With Free Legal Advice Sites
  9. Kopf: A Short Take on Overruling the Chief Justice
  10. Prickett: Justice for Ronald Davis
  11. Interest Group Judiciary
  12. Reinventing Impeachment
  13. Tuesday Talk*: The Constitutional Solution
  14. This Is All Wrong
  15. Kopf: Federal District Judges Should Keep the Hell Away From “Originalism”
  16. Locked And Loaded
  17. Short Take: Look Like Who?
  18. Burn, Baby, Burn
  19. Will “Mistake of Fact” Save Guyger?
  20. No Good Deed, Tampon Edition
  21. #BUTHISEMAILS: Dispatches From Mud Lick, Volume 2
  22. Judge Lucido Made Vanderhagen Take The Ride
  23. Wilkinson’s Constitutional Tyranny
  24. Gaming Sarah Braasch
  25. What Justice Ginsburg Gets
  26. Offending Maeve
  27. Fear of the Flies
  28. The Chief Justice’s Hubby
  29. It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times
  30. Fist Shaking And The Post Unseen
  31. Scapegoating The Sacklers
  32. Let No Huffman Go Free
  33. Seaton: Florida Man and the Stolen Title Belt
  34. 4th Circuit Says Fed Taint Team Stinks
  35. Persky’d Again: The Insanity of Attenuated Taint
  36. The Terrorism Scam
  37. 9/11 On My Mind
  38. Judge Posner Learns The Economics of Free
  39. Tuesday Talk*: For The Cause Or For the Accused?
  40. Lisa Bloom’s Moment As A Lawyer
  41. Scolding Mosley
  42. Maryland Court of Appeals Abrogates Accomplice Corroboration Rule
  43. The Legacy Bump
  44. Dirty Money, Dirty Donor
  45. Kopf: Magic Mirror On The Wall, Who Is the Fairest One Of All?
  46. Raise The Bar On Cancel Culture
  47. Seaton: The Case of the Stolen World Championship
  48. Short Take: System Failure
  49. Bad And Badass In Boston
  50. The Latitude of Heterodoxy
  51. Lammers Challenge: Isn’t Parole Really A Re-Sentence?
  52. New Mexico Abolishes The Spousal Privilege
  53. A Lighter Shade of Gray
  54. Last Victim Standing
  55. Let No Student Get Ahead
  56. Get Drunk, Not Raped
  57. Prostration And The “N-Word”
  58. When Truth Isn’t Truthy* Enough

August 2019

  1. Victimhood of the Flab
  2. Trauma Proof
  3. Seaton: Cockefights in Mud Lick
  4. Does OLC Create A “Secret Body of Law”?
  5. Two Years Later, Treveon Weaver Exonerated
  6. Victim Blaming Requires A Victim
  7. Judge Berman’s Therapy Show
  8. Tuesday Talk*: Ends or Means, What’s a Judge To Do?
  9. Gaming Charges To Guarantee Weinstein’s Conviction
  10. What About The Skivvies?
  11. Shop Floor Culture War
  12. What’s Good For Shareholders
  13. Emily Yoffe Is The Dear Prudence We Need
  14. Cleaves Acquitted, But Then Came The Video
  15. Seaton: #ButHisEmails Dispatches From Mud Lick
  16. No Leg To Stand On
  17. Short Take: Fight Or Flight Or . . . Whatever
  18. May The Court Please Me
  19. Only Women Need Apply
  20. Where Can Weinstein Get A Fair Jury?
  21. Tuesday Talk*: Can There Be A “Day Zero”?
  22. Altered Photo, Positive ID
  23. Orange Cat . . . Caught
  24. Separating The Brock Turner Problem
  25. Orange Cat Bad
  26. Rebecca Blank’s Self-Created Cephus Dilemma (Update)
  27. Hug It Out
  28. Short Take: A New Paradigm
  29. The Janitor’s Lament
  30. Seaton: Deputy Tyrone’s ABCs
  31. Will SCOTUS Be Manipulated?
  32. All The News That Fits
  33. An Unpleasant Whiff of Don Lemon
  34. A Colloquial Kind Of Murder
  35. Suit Against Harvard Proceeds, But With Two Fewer Victims
  36. An Existential Crisis Of The Hoi Polloi
  37. Tuesday Talk*: Twisted Fenders and Priorities
  38. The Hong Kong Reminder
  39. Short Take: The Punishment Tango
  40. Anglin’s Default
  41. ABA Resolution 114: It’s Not Dead Yet (Update)
  42. The Singularity of Epstein’s Death
  43. Shelter From The Storm
  44. A Terrible Time To Test, But Still A Right
  45. Seaton: Sheriff Roy Goes To Garage 66
  46. Short Take: Castles With Windows
  47. Jimmy Aldaoud’s Baghdad Banishment
  48. Seaton: Scruffy City Vengeance (Update)
  49. Section 230 Faces A Two-Front War
  50. Kopf: A “Second Look” Option Might Lessen Federal Sentencing Disparity
  51. First Circuit’s Compromised Cross
  52. Tuesday Talk*: A Sign of the Times
  53. A Pale Hysteria
  54. Are “Sentencing Review Units” The Answer?
  55. Unconstitutional, Even If Called “Cyberrape”
  56. The Swimming Crisis
  57. ABA Resolves You’re Guilty of Rape
  58. Talk Healey To Steve
  59. Must “Inclusion” and “Diversity” Lead To Mediocrity?
  60. Seaton: Harris’ Presidential Bid Killed By Bad Prosecutor Status
  61. The Grand Reasons To Record Interrogations, Redux
  62. Cephus Denied Discovery For “Victim’s” Privacy and Decency (Update: Not Guilty)
  63. The New York Water Gap

July 2019

  1. Short Take: SWAT For Nothing
  2. Poetic Justice
  3. Tuesday Talk*: Should PDs Let Their Inner Prosecutors Out?
  4. When Rules No Longer Apply
  5. When Proof Fails In A Sexual Assault Trial
  6. Babies Left Behind
  7. The Aristocracy of Cute Pumps
  8. No Happy Day
  9. In The Gender War, The Woman Lost (Update)
  10. Seaton: But For Video, Erica Thomas Edition*
  11. Kopf: To Everything There is a Season
  12. The Video That Must Be Erased
  13. Mueller’s Last Stand
  14. Check Their Privilege
  15. A Woman With Balls
  16. Kopf: A Short Take on Evil
  17. Short Reply: The Evil Exception
  18. The Color of Judges
  19. Rhetorical Questions And Answers
  20. Social Media Disclosure Order Causes a FIT
  21. Short Take: Space, The Final Complaint
  22. Prickett: Unintended Consequences (Hemp Edition)
  23. Leana Wen, A Victim of Reasonableness
  24. Seaton: In Memoriam, Presumption of Innocence
  25. Short Take: But It’s Protein
  26. Voter In The Middle
  27. Short Take: The Silliest Hole
  28. The Problem With “Experts”
  29. The Wrong Shade
  30. The Dumb Courtroom In A Dumb City
  31. Tuesday Talk*: Should The Victims Speak?
  32. Mother of the Victim
  33. The Mod Squad
  34. Prickett: “Whenever, Man,” And Then The Beatdown
  35. Red Hats and Law Children
  36. Short Take: The Hampster Chronicles
  37. Is They Right Or Is They Not?
  38. Seaton: A Stupid Court Opinion Ruins One of My Hobbies
  39. Short Take: Innocence Lost
  40. Shooting Blanks In Brooklyn
  41. Rich Clients and “Fancy” Lawyers
  42. Dope With A Gun? 11th Circuit Gives Qualified Immunity
  43. Short Take: Mandatory FAFSA (Plus Police Training)
  44. First Test of 2d Circuit’s Twitter Ruling? @AOC
  45. Tuesday Talk*: The Epstein Caveat
  46. Short Take: The Price of Whiteness In Detroit? $10
  47. Pennsylvania Reacts To Krasner
  48. UVA Completely Loses The Point of Title IX
  49. The Title IX Class At Michigan State
  50. Jeffrey Epstein Arrested; Constitution Tested (Update)
  51. Micromanagers United
  52. Artistic License
  53. Seaton: How Stupid Laws Get Made In Real Time
  54. Short Take: The 20 Vote Solution
  55. The Louder Voices Of The Smaller Number
  56. Waiving The Flag
  57. Constitutional (Pre)Textualism
  58. Law School Testing: Under Pressure
  59. If Republicans Agree, Change The Law
  60. Tuesday Talk*: The Return of Choices and Sacrifice
  61. Harris: It Cannot Be An Intellectual Debate
  62. Boomers and Blind Spots
  63. Reckless in Alabama

June 2019

  1. Legal Aid Society, Where A Reasonable Lawyer Is A “Raging Racist”
  2. NYT: Kill All The Lawyers? Okay Then
  3. Whitewashing Future Possibilities
  4. Seaton: Judge Durham’s Bad Day, Revisited
  5. Kopf: AUSA Sarah Fabian Is Not the Devil’s Advocate
  6. Evidence Rape
  7. Short Take: California Bar Is (Quietly) Doing Away With Lawyers (Update)
  8. Bureaucrats, Blunted
  9. Lessons From Fabian’s Viral Video
  10. Tuesday Talk*: The Queens Test
  11. Harp, The Victim
  12. Short Take: The Measure of Manafort
  13. Sentences, Revisited
  14. Shaken, Not Stirred
  15. Prickett: Religious Police In America
  16. Maybe “Colorblind” Isn’t Such A Bad Thing
  17. A Limit To The Bureaucrats’ Fiat
  18. Fleischman At Slate: Do You Know Your Status?
  19. Flowers: Seventh Try The Charm?
  20. Seaton: Ivy League School Endorses Stupid Online Speech Law
  21. Short Take: The “Standard Terms of Parole” Trap
  22. Harassment In NY Is Whatever You Feel It Is
  23. Short Take: Boot Camp For the Cause
  24. Reparations And Recognition
  25. Short Take: Canceling Rory
  26. Just An Excitable Boy
  27. Vance’s Refusal To Review
  28. For The Love of Stare Decisis
  29. The Juice of Innocence
  30. Can “Racist” Be Defamatory?
  31. Short Take: Judge-Drunk
  32. Grading At Lake Wobegon University
  33. Heroes or Janitors, A Matter of Survival
  34. But For Video: At Least The Baby Lived
  35. Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Personnel Problems
  36. Short Take: The Wrinkly World of Stephen Gillers
  37. Timothy Carpenter And The Magistrate’s Revolt
  38. Short Take: In Defense of Grievance Dogma
  39. Liz Lederer Canceled For All The Wrong Reasons
  40. Crack Hysteria, Revisited
  41. When Lawyers Become A “Right”
  42. Short Take: The Ghastly Legacy of Fear
  43. Facts Finally Prevail For West Point Cadet
  44. Guitardave: Reconstructed Man
  45. What Happened At Oberlin
  46. Cheeseburger Chat
  47. Don’t Harass, And The Ficus Rule
  48. Short Take: The Youtube Purge
  49. Dersh For The Worst Defense
  50. Seaton: Local Pro Se Defendant Shocked At Guilty Verdict
  51. Pollyanna Posting
  52. Dramatic License: Is Fairstein Fair Game?
  53. Better Nice Than Right*
  54. Short Take: How Not To Have A Personal Chat With Trump
  55. Too Poor To Defend The Poor
  56. Tuesday Talk*: Is Virtual Mobbing A Thing?
  57. Learning The Generation Gap
  58. Over-reform? Blame The Judges
  59. Mumphery Settles, So What Comes Next?
  60. Kopf: The Luck Of The Draw
  61. Gravity, Repealed

May 2019

  1. Glacier de SJ
  2. Gone Salmon Fishing
  3. Frisco’s Dystopian Showcase
  4. Is It A Noose Or A Lasso
  5. Chris Darden Confronts The “Threatener’s Veto”
  6. Tuesday Talk*: What’s “Deserve” Got To Do With It?
  7. First Prosecutors, Now Judges?
  8. Is His “Being Human” Worth Your Life?
  9. Into The Valley of Death Rode The 300,000 (and counting)
  10. Gelin’s Commenters Aren’t Gelin
  11. I’ve Got My Own
  12. Overcoming Adversity
  13. Seaton: Woke Teachers Wonder Where Things Went Wrong
  14. The Right To Defend (Provided the Government Approves)
  15. Destroy The Monster With Law (But Squishier)
  16. The Defense Crack
  17. Training Robocop For The Jersey Turnpike
  18. Rep. Shalala Tells Colleges Not To Change
  19. Fine Dining
  20. Tuesday Talk*: Love Thy Neighbor
  21. Justice Breyer Fired The First Shot
  22. Have Gun, Will Travel To New York
  23. When Defense Lawyers Become “Those People”
  24. The Nursery School Named Harvard
  25. Better Choices, Better Rates
  26. If It’s Just Systemic Racism, Let’s Execute the Bad White Dudes
  27. Capping Interest Rates and Ceteris Paribus
  28. Seaton: Community In Shock As Neighbors Civilly Disagree
  29. Short Take: The List of Shame
  30. Fool On The Hill
  31. Preening At The Vermont Coffeehouse
  32. Title IX Rights and The Innocent John (Update)
  33. There Are No Victims In Criminal Court
  34. The Worth of a Snitch
  35. Tuesday Talk*: Wussies or What?
  36. The Presumption of Regularity and The Mandatory “Shall” (Update x2)
  37. Kopf*: On Defeating the White Male Patriarchy One Foot at a Time
  38. Short Take: Brooks Brothers Plays the Pajama Game
  39. Betting On The Next Justice’s Credentials
  40. House Rules
  41. The Magic and The Guilty Man
  42. Judicial Dysphoria
  43. Run Like Semenya (Update)
  44. Seaton: Task Force To Study Task Force’s Failures
  45. What Duke Law Deems Worthy
  46. The Business of Decency Is Still Business
  47. Put Me In Coach
  48. The Oracle Named Bob
  49. Short Take: NYT Apologizes For Not Being Funny
  50. Comfortably Dumb

April 2019

  1. Tuesday Talk*: Should He Apologize, As Lucy Demands?
  2. Marilyn Mosby’s Mess
  3. Misunderstanding Katz; Forgetting Smith
  4. Deserve Has Nothing To Do With It
  5. DeRay’s Bad Day
  6. NAACP To Missouri Black Men: Your Lives Don’t Matter
  7. The Point of a Fine: Facebook’s $5 Billion Spanking
  8. Seaton: Protestors Protest Decades Old Hurtful Comments
  9. Indicting Judge Joseph (Update)
  10. The Price of Speech Is Their Committee
  11. Kopf: A Very Short Chalk Talk and A Request For Help
  12. Short Take: The Mizzou Solution
  13. Census: Asking The Right Question
  14. Free Speech Is “One Size Fits All”
  15. The Good Guns of New York City
  16. The Meaning of “Sex”
  17. One Victim Too Many
  18. Why No One Will Hire You, Elie Edition
  19. See Something, Say Something, Get Arrested For It
  20. Free @bmaz (Update: He’s Back!)
  21. Confrontation And The Veil
  22. A Progressive’s Confession: Liberals Ain’t Us
  23. A Nation Without Prisons?
  24. Fearmongering A Dubious Bail Law
  25. Seaton: Bicoastal Intellectuals Fail Free Speech
  26. Book Review: How To Become A Federal Criminal
  27. Kopf: A Short Take On “Get Off My Lawn”
  28. Landrum: The Cobb County Democrats And Stoner’s Lament
  29. Short Take: 23 Skiddoo
  30. Win At SCOTUS, Lose Anyway
  31. An Unwanted Relic
  32. Reconciling Title IX: Visual Bodily Privacy
  33. Transparency For All?
  34. Moral Clarity For “Some People”
  35. Seaton: Mixed Reactions To Mud Lick’s MRAP
  36. Tales From The Goat Rodeo
  37. The Vote From Cellblock B
  38. Return of the Pink Internet
  39. Reparations With A Glass of White Whine
  40. The Rebellion’s Press Release
  41. The President Does Not Like To Be Silenced, Harvard Edition
  42. Has It Always Been About Identity Politics?
  43. Short Take: Aunt Becky’s Bad Choice
  44. Ain’t Nothing Wrong With Code-Switching?
  45. Kopf: The Baseless (and nasty) Complaints Against Judge Ellis
  46. Teaching Is Its Own Reward
  47. Tuesday Talk*: Prior Restraint and The Geo-Fence Around the Jury Box
  48. Seaton: The Unpersoned And The Unpaid Debt
  49. Short Take: You Can’t Fix “Axiomatic”
  50. Making Censorship Respectable Again
  51. Restorative Justice: Of Unicorns and Body Bags
  52. Focus, Redux
  53. Saving Willie McCoy
  54. Rich or Famous
  55. Karma Or Just The Realization That Affirmative Consent Never Made Sense?
  56. Trump, Tax Naked
  57. Asking For Trouble
  58. Short Take: Will The New York Reforms Reform?
  59. The Last Liberal Candidate
  60. Tuesday Talk*: To Be Guy’s Wife
  61. The Rehabilitation of Biden
  62. When The Bill Comes Due In Gage County

March 2019

  1. Maybe Jimmy Was On To Something
  2. New York’s Bail Deal, Whatever It Is
  3. Fleischman: An Appellate Model To Be Emulated
  4. Marketing Or Kickbacks; Dr. Rimlawi On Trial
  5. The Law of Gravity Is Unconstitutionally Vague
  6. The Twitter Village Gatekeeper
  7. Seaton: Justice or Jussie In The System
  8. Short Take: Tasty Chicken Sandwich Discrimination
  9. Opinion Peddlers of the Academy
  10. Termination, But Not In Retaliation
  11. Parlez-vous Anglais?
  12. Tuesday Talk*: The Avenatti Test
  13. Dems’ Nominee: Only PDs Need Apply
  14. Barr None
  15. You Can’t Take The A Train
  16. The Electoral College and The 26% Popular Vote
  17. Joe Rogan’s Voodoo
  18. Play It Again, Scott
  19. Mueller’s Last Day
  20. Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  21. Flowers’ Sixth and The Failure of Batson
  22. A Clean Slate
  23. Is “Papa Renty” Harvard’s Last Slave?
  24. Tuesday Talk*: When Is When Released?
  25. The Limits of Empathy In The Law
  26. Kopf: Adam Cohen’s Nasty Remix of the “Empathy” Hymn
  27. The Magic Beans To Stuyvesant
  28. The Day That No One Watched
  29. Promiscuous Praise and Credible Criticism
  30. A Death And An Impossible Story Regurgitated
  31. The “Unsexy” New Rules For Federal Judges
  32. Revenge of the Jones
  33. Reform v. Reformers: The Poster Boy Delusion
  34. Short Take: Rep. Jackie Speier and The Congressional Record
  35. Will Connecticut Circumvent The Second Amendment?
  36. Morris Dees Exposed (Update)
  37. Vance’s Manafort Moment
  38. Bieler: We Must Hurt Trump; Ergo, We Must Hurt…
  39. Gaming The Game of College Admissions
  40. The Quiet World of Quasi-Cops
  41. Legal Aid Society Finds Squawk Guilty
  42. Tuesday Talk*: Diversity Commits Suicide at Sarah Lawrence
  43. Short Take: Sophistry of the Young and the Restless
  44. Impeachment And The “Plain Meaning” of Bribery
  45. Suing DeVos, Advocates Admit The Title IX Lie
  46. The Progressive Sort of Harsh
  47. Short Take: 90 Day Disgrace
  48. Making Use Of Manafort
  49. Prickett: Former Police Officer Nouman Raja Guilty In Death of Corey Jones
  50. Short Take: Teacher of the Flies
  51. Chambers’ Rape Dropped (Update)
  52. No Time For Losers
  53. Tuesday Talk*: Where Does Race Fit Into Reform?
  54. Crim Law Reform, Two Approaches
  55. Indiana’s “100% Certain” Exception To The Fourth Amendment
  56. 2d Circuit Holds Landlord Liable As The New “Thought Police”
  57. Your Mother Should Know
  58. Cuomo Signs NY Revenge Porn Law
  59. One Angry Woman and Roland Fryer’s Life
  60. Randall Kennedy’s Bold Defense
  61. Dare To Be Powerful
  62. SPLC Points, Michigan Shoots
  63. Sexism Infects NY Discovery Reform

February 2019

  1. Short Take: A Warm Harvard Welcome, Demands To Follow
  2. An Appeal To Nowhere
  3. A Knitter’s Excitable Tale
  4. Then Or Now, Mr. Cohen
  5. House Speaker Delay
  6. Tuesday Talk*: Dedicated Followers of Fashion
  7. Should The State Seize “Gender-Dysphoric” Kids From Parents?
  8. Night of the Living “Roma”
  9. Short Take: The Punch and The Disappeared
  10. Selective Service Just Got Draftier
  11. Short Take: T-Shirt Testimony
  12. Punching Scott Alexander
  13. A Poor Fit
  14. Billionaires, Punch Them Or Kiss Them?
  15. Time Served, Then Served Some More
  16. Excessive Fines And Petty Forfeitures
  17. Tuesday Talk*: Hair, The New Frontier For Discrimination
  18. Discrimination, “Plain and Simple,” Or Religious Accommodation
  19. The Shamefulness Of Being Ordinary (Update)
  20. Casual Lurker Spills The Amazon Beans
  21. Prickett: Is It Felony Murder When the Police Do It?
  22. Bieler: We Are Going to Mass Incarcerate Forever
  23. de Blasio’s Morals Over Money
  24. Short take: Seriousness And The Kitchen Sink
  25. The Odd Revival Of The E.R.A.
  26. Short Take: Walking Humbly With Manafort (Update)
  27. ACLU’s David Cole Plays The Race Card
  28. Short Take: Until They’re 55
  29. The Inexperienced Juror
  30. Punishing Amazon, The Bad Corporate Citizen
  31. Spin Shots (Video Update)
  32. 20 And Out
  33. Should HLS Prawf Ron Sullivan Wear Both Hats?
  34. When The Fisc Runs Dry
  35. Tuesday Talk* Yenta Alert: The Other Date Rape
  36. Duke Shoots And Misses The Point
  37. Short Take: Cultural Appropriation of the Mongols
  38. Crimes Of The Nipple
  39. Michigan AG Dana Nessel Does The Unthinkable: Argues The Truth About SORA
  40. But For Video: Dads And Cops
  41. Fish Plates At Last
  42. The FairFax Test
  43. Seaton: No NSAC Nannies Needed
  44. The Barr For Fitness
  45. Too Late For Comfort: Ray Denied An Imam
  46. Seaton: When “Toxic Masculinity” Strikes
  47. Short Take: Can The Harvard Cross Compromise Work?
  48. A Woman’s Place
  49. Return of the Mink
  50. Tuesday Talk*: A Discouraging Word
  51. Older, But Not Wiser
  52. Short Take: Disproportionately Yours
  53. Will Presumption of Innocence Be The Next To Fall?
  54. But For Video: Front Porch Edition
  55. Nice White Boys Too
  56. Short Take: Mary Anne Franks Hates The Constitution
  57. Josue Hernandez Learns The Price of Prolix
  58. Short Take: Straw Cop
  59. Title IX Comments Closed: So?

January 2019

  1. Short Take: The New Rules of Debate
  2. Constitutional Orphans and Constitutional Adoptions
  3. Short Take: Remembering FritzMuffKnuckle
  4. Too Harsh For Too Long Is No Excuse
  5. Tuesday Talk*: Does APA Notice And Comment Help With Title IX?
  6. Left, Lefter, Latte
  7. Is Stone The End Or A New Beginning?
  8. War of the World
  9. Crisis Averted or War Lost?
  10. Pi Beta Nanny
  11. The “Existential” Problem of Digital “Journalism”
  12. Schadenfreude Is Not A Viable Legal Doctrine
  13. Still Punitive After All These Years
  14. The Reverse Cop Swagger
  15. Short Take: But Jackie and Duke Lacrosse?
  16. Trangender Policy And The Evil SCOTUS
  17. The Courtroom of Babel
  18. Covington Catholic: The Rebound
  19. Kopf: 12 Angry Men (And Women)
  20. Junk Science Is Dead, Long Live Junk Science
  21. The “Shame” Vote
  22. King: Leave Kamala Alone
  23. King Abuse
  24. Jason Van Dyke’s Lucky Day
  25. Bang The Drum Slowly (Update)
  26. Tamika Mallory Is Right, So Get Over It
  27. Legally Obsolete: Education
  28. I Salute You, Pop
  29. Short Take: Frail or What?
  30. Cuomo’s Reform: Progressive And Regressive
  31. The Best A Man Can Get
  32. Is Discovery Reform “Progressive”?
  33. Bad Evidence Plus Bias: NCHERM’s Tip
  34. Shutdown Slavery At The TSA
  35. The Funny Pages
  36. The Price of Life, Childhood Edition
  37. At My Convenience
  38. Short Take: The White Woman’s Burden
  39. Hiding Title IX Prejudice Behind Euphemisms: Victims v. Perps
  40. The “Survivors” Last Stand
  41. The ABA Fights For Its Irrelevance
  42. Unsettling Silence (Or Can The SEC Make You Gag?)
  43. Sounds Bites
  44. Fact and Juries, A “Suspect Precedent”
  45. Real Men Don’t Shrink
  46. Tuesday Talk*: Elie’s Urge
  47. No One Expects The IRB (Update x2)
  48. The Moral Hole
  49. In Need of a Patriot To Volunteer
  50. The Black Millennial’s Math
  51. The Tyranny of Mommydom
  52. A Blow Too Far
  53. The Law of the Jungle
  54. Twitter Rules, Blawgs Drool
  55. The Un-Landry Students
  56. Saifullah Khan Expelled From Yale, But With A Twist
  57. Rollins’ Good Intentions and Bad Question
  58. Short Take: Museum of the Apes
  59. Will Biglaw Go Pinklaw? Herrmann’s Prediction
  60. Will Outrage Trump Outrageous?
  61. Do It For the Party

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