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December 2022

  1. Sins of Omission 2022
  2. Turning 911 Calls Into Junk Science
  3. Undefining Crimes of Passion
  4. Policy Aside, Covid No Longer Justifies Title 42
  5. Short Take: Congressman-ish Santos
  6. A Tangled Webb
  7. Christmas 2022
  8. Celebrating A Beloved Christmas Song
  9. No Entry For Enemies of Jimmy
  10. Evidence, Lost
  11. Oldham’s “Factual Innocence” Is Absurd
  12. Tuesday Talk*: Should Prior Bad Acts Be Allowed For Sex Crimes?
  13. El Paso’s Problem
  14. Tenderloin Taxes
  15. Garland’s Crack Cocaine Memo
  16. Seaton: The SJ 2022 Year In Review
  17. Short Take: Nuts Or Broke?
  18. When Students Just Say No
  19. The Felon On The Jury
  20. Tuesday Talk*: The Scent of Musk
  21. Cite Unseen
  22. Why Can’t We Be Joyous About Griner?
  23. The Dubious Constitutionalty of The Speak Out Act
  24. Seaton: AI Writes The Friday Funny
  25. Short Take: For The Love of Teamsters
  26. Grandma, The Rapist
  27. Another Racist Lawyer And Mentor
  28. Is There Any Hope For The ACLU?
  29. For Love And Money, End This Battle
  30. Short Take: Did You Hear About Twitter?
  31. Harvard In The Iron Age
  32. Seaton: We’re Totally Getting Terminators In The Future
  33. FIRE Challenges New York’s Attempt To Police Internet Hate Speech
  34. Even The Mentally Ill Have Rights

November 2022

  1. Will Robots Be Killers?
  2. Tuesday Talk*: Be Classist, Not Racist?
  3. The “Both-Sideism” Of Cis White Men
  4. I Own Twitter
  5. Last Chance To Say Good-Bye
  6. Don’t Blame Larry Krasner
  7. Seaton: A Templeton Thanksgiving, Redux
  8. A Thanksgiving Tradition
  9. When The Alleged Shooter Is Mx.
  10. Tuesday Talk*: Can’t We Just Be Thankful?
  11. Short Take: Good and White
  12. Why Not Life Plus Cancer For Holmes?
  13. What If Trump Returned and Nobody Cared?
  14. Gun Rights and Punishment
  15. Seaton: The Doctor Is Out . . . Way Out
  16. Rank Choice
  17. Bomb Throwers Disbarred
  18. Bostock’s Consequence: Confusion
  19. Tuesday Talk*: Cashing Out
  20. Saving FACE: Alerting Students and Parents To The Risk
  21. Short Take: Chappelle Said “The Jews”
  22. Seaton: Dead Body Disposal
  23. Short Take: Nary A Crumb
  24. Was Slavery Really On The Ballot?
  25. Democracy, Good And Hard
  26. Twelve, Neither More Nor Less
  27. Tomorrow’s Meaning Today
  28. Will The En Banc 5th Circuit Deny The “Obvious”?
  29. The NBA Draft
  30. Seaton: All Eyes On Athens
  31. Judge Stearns To First Circuit: Screw Pseudonymity
  32. Beat The Rap
  33. What Do Judges Know About Originalism?
  34. Seaton: Adventures In Home Improvement
  35. Denying “Race Minus” (Update)

October 2022

  1. Crossing The “Angry Black Woman”
  2. But With A “Duty of Care”?
  3. Masks, Mules and Too Many Rights
  4. Seaton: Helpful Hints For Happier Halloweens
  5. Wemple’s Confession: He Was Afraid
  6. Is Demoralizing Women An Equal Protection Violation?
  7. When Does It End?
  8. Tuesday Talk*: Crime and Consequences
  9. Are Kiosks The Answer to A2J?
  10. So You Want To Be A Physician?
  11. A Shallow Dive Into A Twisted Mind
  12. Seaton: A Sheriff In Mourning
  13. Spacey’s Only Regret Was The Apology
  14. AG James Wants To Hold Platforms Liable For Mass Murders
  15. Acquitted of a Crime of Passion
  16. Tuesday Talk*: Slaves of Training
  17. Marginalizing The Supreme Court
  18. Destruction, Rationalized
  19. People Lie
  20. Short Take: Fetterman and Functionality
  21. Muskets Without Numbers
  22. Ho, Ho, Ho, Yale Responds
  23. Short Take: If Kafka Wrote Satire
  24. Learning The Lesson of Failure
  25. Tuesday Talk*: Biden’s Weed Pardon
  26. Short Take: A Million Military Analysts
  27. Hastings Law, Forever or Refund?
  28. Slippery Park Slope
  29. Seaton: Parma Police Respond To SCOTUS Petition
  30. Jonesing For Equity (Or Passing Organic Chemistry)
  31. Short Take: Give A ‘Nym, Take A ‘Nym
  32. “Clear The Area” Fails In South Carolina
  33. What Does the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause Command?
  34. Tuesday Talk*: Pay To Play
  35. Teaching Con Law
  36. Saving SCOTUS
  37. Volokh Meets The Tropes

September 2022

  1. Seaton: Brady With The Ball
  2. Wrong, But Misleading the Mag Wasn’t the Reason
  3. Is Sex A “Social Construct” To A Muslim Prisoner?
  4. When Cops Aren’t Psychologically Stable
  5. Halkides: Flawed Investigation of USS Bonhomme Richard Fire
  6. Tuesday Talk*: What Does The Second Amendment Protect?
  7. If Insurers Ran Police Departments
  8. Only The Worky Parts
  9. When All You Have Is A Sledge Hammer
  10. Seaton: Blame Florida If I’m Arrested
  11. Wheel Of Fortune
  12. Scheme To Defraud or Fragile Ego
  13. A “Mental Health” Epidemic or A “Mental Illness” Crisis?
  14. Promising Solutions That Didn’t Fix
  15. Tuesday Talk*: Unclassy or Declassified?
  16. The Sporting Woman
  17. Of Mermaids and Sunshine Supermen
  18. Let The Fifth Circuit Come Get Me
  19. Do Defamers Deserve Pseudonymity?
  20. Seaton: Of Matts and Mermaids
  21. Lawyers, Not Priests
  22. 19 Democratic Senators Say “Due Process Sucks”
  23. Short Take: The Danger of Driving High
  24. Short Take: Victim, Killer Or Both?
  25. Short Take: Quitters Never Win
  26. Tuesday Talk*: Who Can Object?
  27. Twits Can Defame; Libel Suit Proceeds Against Don Winslow
  28. Like It’s Ancient History
  29. Why Did “Alien” Become Pejorative?
  30. Seaton: An Open Letter To Certain Unnamed Software Developers
  31. Whether To Ask Question 26
  32. Short Take: The Turner Syndrome
  33. Short Take: The Other Electricity Problem In California
  34. Second Chances
  35. Tuesday Talk*: Debt Be Not Proud?
  36. Will We Get Fooled (Again)?
  37. Labor’s Demands and The Audience’s Perogatives
  38. Old Friends And Their Crazy Talk
  39. Seaton: Grocery Store Tips and Etiquette
  40. Fan Better, Boys
  41. Short Take: A Meritorious Defense
  42. The Cost of “Defund”

August 2022

  1. Neither Complexify Nor Simplify
  2. Tuesday Talk*: Do It For The Children, Facial Recognition Edition
  3. Short Take: Return of the Spank?
  4. Disparate Outcomes Don’t Answer “Why?”
  5. When 95% Isn’t Good Enough
  6. When A Good Guy Refuses
  7. Short Take: Redact Your Enthusiasm
  8. The Appeal Of Really Dumb Arguments
  9. First Circuit Upholds Student Anonymity In Title IX Challenge
  10. What About A Firefighter’s Free Speech?
  11. Tuesday Talk*: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
  12. When History Broke
  13. Empathy For The Economically Challenged
  14. “RT =/= Approval” Defense Fails In Saudi Arabia
  15. Seaton: I Karen’d My Son’s Teacher
  16. A Little Knowledge Is [Redacted]
  17. Bunin: Maybe Don’t Call Saul?
  18. No Way To Run A Prison
  19. Who’s Watching Junior?
  20. Tuesday Talk*: Will Next Gen Title IX Regs Undermine Parental Authority?
  21. What’s A Governor To Do?
  22. A Reconsideration Of Podcasts
  23. When Words “Cut Like A Knife”
  24. Seaton: Nightmare on Appliance Street
  25. Was Qualified Immunity A Scrivener’s Error?
  26. The Burden of Transparency
  27. Short Take: The New State of Confusion
  28. The Serena Paradox
  29. Tuesday Talk*: The MAL Raid
  30. The Cop Who Didn’t
  31. Breonna’s Death Started With Petty Lies
  32. Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Dishwasher Blues
  33. Gibson’s Judgment Is Only Paper Until It’s Paid
  34. Kansas or Bust
  35. Short Take: Will DC Fast Charger Do The Trick?
  36. Tuesday Talk*: Was Reffitt’s “Trial Tax” Too High?
  37. Short Take: Cop on Cop
  38. Lessons Learned From Seth Godin

July 2022

  1. MSM And The Spread Of Monkeypox
  2. Saying Sorry
  3. Seaton: The Lonely McMahon
  4. To Prosecute Or Not
  5. ACLU Picks Its Side, And It’s Not Free Speech
  6. Was #MeToo A Matter of “Public Concern” Or Personal Revenge?
  7. Tuesday Talk*: Returning To The Nest To Stay?
  8. Trusting Doctors Or Creating Criminals
  9. What’s An Environmentalist To Do?
  10. Be Like Jane (Coaston)
  11. Hate Is Never Wrong
  12. Seaton: In Which I Am Civil To My Core (Not Really)
  13. When The Rules Work Against You
  14. Short Take: Does The Bar Exam Discriminate?
  15. Goldberg Discovers Due Process Too Late
  16. The Too Weak “Yes”
  17. Tuesday Talk*: Money Ain’t For Nothing
  18. Those Who Can’t, Teach
  19. To Pull Or Not To Pull, There Is No Good Answer
  20. When “Special Needs” Are Invoked Instead of Probable Cause
  21. Seaton: Will Make Highly Problematic Statements For Cash
  22. Why Doesn’t Roxane Care About Paul?
  23. Short Take: From The Mouths Of Babes
  24. Stories, Hoaxes and Trust
  25. Silly or Serious, Dobbs Raised Questions
  26. Tuesday Talk*: If Not Old Man Biden, Then Who?
  27. But “Doe” To The Lawyers?
  28. Why C.J. Roberts?
  29. They Watched, They Laughed
  30. Make Morton’s Pay
  31. Seaton: Sheriff Roy Questions A Nanny
  32. Judges Trying To Remain Neutral on Preferred Pronouns
  33. Short Take: The Most Sensitive Student In Idaho
  34. Can Ordinary Curriculum Create A Hostile Environment?
  35. Trusting The Ties That Bind
  36. Tuesday Talk*: Is There A 2d Amendment Solution?
  37. A Fourth We Urgently Need
  38. The Last Woman On The Left
  39. Of Good Moral Character In New York
  40. Seaton: An Infernal Appletini Happy Hour
  41. Halkides: Fingerprint Databases As Post-Conviction Tools

June 2022

  1. Why Wouldn’t Any Cop Believe Randy Cox?
  2. Short Take: Of Docs and Dealers
  3. Is Legitimacy Just For Losers?
  4. Beyond Due Process, The Title IX Attack On Free Speech
  5. The Guns of Manhattan
  6. Right Or Wrong, Dobbs Was Reckless
  7. Seaton: Thoughts On McMahon’s #MeToo
  8. Lhamon’s Whiplash
  9. The Other Title IX, Reimagining Women’s Sports
  10. Play In The Joints
  11. Tuesday Talk*: Raising The Red Flag
  12. Takeaways From 1/6 Committee’s Hearings
  13. Celebrate, But How?
  14. Because You’re Not Lizzo
  15. Seaton: In Solidarity With David Weigel
  16. Can Congress Legislate a “Right To Trial”?
  17. The Last Election in Otero
  18. Garland’s 1/6 Committee Problem
  19. Tuesday Talk*: Words Even Lizzo Can’t Say
  20. Is There Still Hope For Reform?
  21. Free The Women
  22. Acting Happy
  23. What’s Wrong With Quiet Enjoyment?
  24. Seaton At The Movies: WJHC-AM
  25. Washington State Holds Race Matters For Seizure
  26. The House Puts On Its Show
  27. Short Take: Rationalizing Kavanaugh’s Assassination
  28. Chesa Boudin, Recalled
  29. Short Take: Hochul Outlaws Online “Hateful Conduct”
  30. Tuesday Talk*: Can White Lawyers Defend?
  31. Ilya Shapiro’s Hard Choice
  32. Heard About The ACLU’s Bad Amber Day?

May 2022

  1. Spring Break
  2. Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Innocence
  3. Cop Cars and Cash Machines
  4. When “Any Person” Is Close Enough
  5. Short Take: Laws In Lieu of Norms
  6. Do Concepts Really “Creep”?
  7. Seaton: A Hot Day in Mud Lick
  8. To Punish Joshua Katz, Anything Will Do
  9. Fantasy Sexism, Never Wrong, But Pointless
  10. Pitfalls of Prohibiting Residential Picketing
  11. Tuesday Talk*: What Radicalizes A Mass Shooter?
  12. Book Review: Elie Mystal’s “Allow Me To Retort”
  13. Will #MeToo Make The Model Penal Code Unworkable?
  14. Short Take: Have Yale Law Students Suffered Enough?
  15. Uncertainty Is Why It’s Called “Rolling The Dice”
  16. Roe And The Return Of The Voting Rights Act
  17. Seaton: Cop Night At The Knoll
  18. Senate Math and Fomenting Outrage
  19. Did Fifth Circuit Put Texas In Charge of The Internet?
  20. Short Take: ACLU Backs Musk On Trump
  21. Batali Acquitted, But So What?
  22. Tuesday Talk*: Back To The Office?
  23. Short Take: The President’s Silence (Update)
  24. After The Ban Comes The Crime
  25. Bad Justice, No Peace? (Update)
  26. Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Traffic Stop
  27. The Easy Rules of Student Loan Debt
  28. Short Take: Emotional Math
  29. Ho, Dubitante
  30. Short Take: The Humorless Meet Herrmann
  31. The Woke Sleeping Giant
  32. Tuesday Talk*: Leaker, Hero or Villain?
  33. Dobbs Draft Changes Everything
  34. Time To “Pull Back”? Maybe
  35. The Certainty of The Fearful

April 2022

  1. When Parody Is The Probable Cause
  2. Seaton: Finklestein’s Predicament
  3. Sacrifice For The Cause
  4. Short Take: Harassment or Criticism?
  5. Dr. Sabatini’s Future Prospects
  6. The $6 Million Durham Dilemma
  7. Is Musk The Solution, The Problem, Both or Neither?
  8. 11th Circuit Enjoins “Staggeringly Broad” Speech Code
  9. Without A Ref, There Is No Game
  10. Truthing, Defined
  11. Short Take: Is Miranda A Right Or What?
  12. Seaton At The Movies: The Batman
  13. Targeting Disney
  14. Connecticut Trooper Indicted For Killing Mubarak Soulemane
  15. Is Resistance Futile?
  16. Tuesday Talk*: Should Schools Teach Gender?
  17. How Racist Can A Juror Be?
  18. 5th Circuit Holds Pain After Custody Reasonable
  19. The Trouble With “Wanteds”
  20. Prickett: The Shooting of Patrick Lyoya
  21. Justice In Waiting? KBJ Commissioned
  22. Seaton: A Busy Easter Weekend
  23. Judge Rawlinson’s Made Her Choice (Update)
  24. Douthat’s Dilemma: Maximal Kindness
  25. Modern Economics, Explained
  26. Misha Update: Two Tons of Body Armor Delivered (Update)
  27. Prosecutorial Immunity: A Line That Can’t Be Crossed
  28. Tuesday Talk*: From CROWN Down
  29. Short Take: Broken Senate, Broken SCOTUS
  30. Crimes That Aren’t
  31. Hanging On The Telephone
  32. The Buck Stops Where?
  33. Short Take: Confirmed, But Not Yet Appointed
  34. Seaton: How I Mostly Slept Through Vacation
  35. Bail Reform, Fun While It Lasted
  36. Locke Was A Bad Shoot, But Not A Crime
  37. The Last ADA In New York City
  38. 5th Circuit Holds “Closed File” Policy Didn’t Cause Prosecutor To Lie
  39. Tuesday Talk*: Time To Get Rid Of Time Served?
  40. Help Misha Protect Ukraine
  41. Short Take: Just A Little Joint on First Street
  42. Paid To Be There (Update)
  43. Punch A [This space intentionally left blank]
  44. Seaton: My Liveblog of “Jackass Forever”
  45. The Wobbling Role Of A Defendant’s Racist Slurs

March 2022

  1. The Conflict Of A Legal(ish) Education
  2. Welcome Back, Junk Science (As If It Were Ever Really Gone)
  3. Judge Carter Says The Obvious Out Loud
  4. Wristwatches And Executive Orders
  5. Tuesday Talk*: The ‘Nyms In Court
  6. What Lhamon Has To Hide From KC Johnson
  7. Short Take: The Peril of Reporting
  8. Idle Vice
  9. With Words That Must Be Said
  10. Justice Thomas’ Ginni Problem
  11. Justice Jackson, I Presume?
  12. Seaton: Profiles in Connage, Kerry Ketchum
  13. ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) Held Unconstitutional In Pennsylvania
  14. Short Take: Pomerantz Says So
  15. Avoiding The Unavoidable Trap
  16. Machado: Leave Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson Alone
  17. Can WaPo Use anti-SLAPP Law To Dismiss A Sex-Discrimination Suit?
  18. Tuesday Talk*: Has Law Been Lost?
  19. The Other Climate Change
  20. Chief Judge Reidinger Rejects The Standard Assumptions
  21. Defending The Accused Takes The Big Stage
  22. NYT: To Shame, To Shun
  23. Seaton: Profiles In Connage, Arnold “The Brain” Rothstein
  24. Yale Law School’s Lesson On Growing Up
  25. Short Take: The Tyranny of Bad Estimations
  26. Farhadian Weinstein Calls For Tainted Rape Juries
  27. Short Take: AALS’s Speedy Approach
  28. The Midnight Dump On Sunny Balwani
  29. Tuesday Talk*: Dumbing Down Treason
  30. Property Tax And The Absurd Choice
  31. Environment, Revisited
  32. For Whom Should Lawyers Write?
  33. No Apparent Cause
  34. Seaton: Profiles in Connage, Titanic Thompson
  35. Sentencing Jussie
  36. Desperately Missing The Point
  37. Roll Over, Tchaikovsky
  38. The Irrational Inherent Conflict of Marijuana
  39. Tuesday Talk*: Are Title IX Sex Tribunals At Private Universities “Quasi-Judicial”?
  40. On Occasion, Lenity Must Prevail
  41. A University’s Mission To Strike Fear In Students
  42. On The Library Shelf
  43. A Little Empathy From UC Hastings Faculty
  44. Bragg’s Dilemma
  45. More Grounded Efforts Than A Capital Letter
  46. Ex-Cop Menocal’s Too Sweet Deal
  47. Seaton: Profiles in Connage, Michael Larson
  48. QI Granted, Penis Missing
  49. No Way To Win The Debate
  50. Rakoff To Palin: Stercus Accidit
  51. Read All The Words
  52. Ukraine, Terrible Choices and Snark

February 2022

  1. Relieving Your Appropriated Pain
  2. The Remarkably Uncontroversial Choice of Judge Jackson
  3. Title IX Hearings, “Best” Practices Of Biased Hearing Officers
  4. Seaton: Strange Phrases Examined
  5. Crimes of Omission
  6. Can 8 Feet Pass Constitutional Muster?
  7. Was Murderers Not Bad Enough?
  8. The Other Bethany Farber
  9. Tuesday Talk*: Putin, Ukraine and Us
  10. The Harmful Article
  11. Short Take: Settlements Are Not For You
  12. “Ghosts” Of Dings Past
  13. A Sentence Too Harsh, But Not What It Appears (Update)
  14. No Lessons, Just Excuses, in Frisco Recall
  15. Seaton: Terrors Of Youth (Go Gabba Gabba)
  16. Follow The Marijuana Money
  17. Aledda’s Conviction Reversed
  18. Did Judge Rakoff Blow The Palin Verdict?
  19. West Side Failure
  20. Polling Propaganda
  21. Tuesday Talk*: Can The ABA Be Trusted To Accredit Law Schools?
  22. Rape Victim’s DNA Used Against Her
  23. Displaying Judicial Bias
  24. SJ Turns 15
  25. When SSRN Caved (Update)
  26. The Tyranny of the Anecdote Comes Around
  27. Dancing In The Streets, Eh?
  28. Seaton: Another Round of Assorted Opinions
  29. Circling Wagons Around Harvard’s Comaroff
  30. Garland DoJ: Trust The (Junk) Science
  31. Rules Change For Those They Hate
  32. Ohio Supreme Court Rejects “Reverse Rape”
  33. Seaton: Cheering Away Jerry’s Innocence
  34. Tuesday Talk*: Criticism v. Cancellation, A Limiting Principle?
  35. GWU And The China Syndrome (Update)
  36. Amir Locke’s Killing And Another Failure
  37. Suffering Free Speech
  38. Seaton: I’m Part Of A Victim Group Now!
  39. Trauma Creep
  40. Short Take: The Meaning of Racism
  41. Should It Matter What Mike Would Have Wanted?
  42. Short Take: Blame The Rooney Rule
  43. Time In The Echo Chamber
  44. Tuesday Talk*: Has Affirmative Action Reached Its Expiration Date?
  45. Mother Of The Prosecution

January 2022

  1. The Ilya Test (Update)
  2. Restaurants Without Telephones
  3. Short Take: Could the ERA Pass Today?
  4. When A Protest Goes Limp
  5. Seaton: A Few Short Jokes For Your Consideration
  6. The Singer’s Veto
  7. The Wrong Question For Justice Breyer’s Successor
  8. Both Illiberal, But Not Quite The Same
  9. 58 Flavors Invading Facebook*
  10. Tuesday Talk*: Cancel The Beatles?
  11. The Awkward Guns on New York City Streets
  12. “Systemic Racism” Obscures What Needs Fixing
  13. The Cop Crime of Failing To Intervene
  14. Housekeeping: The Fickle Finger of Moderation
  15. Syracuse Punishes A Question, But A Bad Question
  16. The Heartbreak of Language
  17. Short Take: This Time, Cops Responded and One Died
  18. Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Meeting With The Teacher
  19. But For Video, One Lying Narc
  20. A Dog Named Cash
  21. First Pardon, Then 42 Years in Prison For The Same Conduct
  22. Short Take: Will Emily Shut Her Purse?
  23. Why Can’t ATL’s Rubino Leave Clanton Alone?
  24. Halkides: With Prison Drug Testing, Twice Is Not Enough
  25. Tuesday Talk*: Filibuster Or What?
  26. MLK: The Shame And The Promise of Voting
  27. The Uninformed Voter
  28. A Text Instead of A Siren
  29. What’s God Got To Do With It?
  30. Seaton: A 2022 Love Ritual
  31. Judge Robert Adrian’s Farcical Self-Reversal
  32. Short Take: Students Choose Between False Options
  33. Title IX And The Bad Facts Conundrum
  34. Sonia and The Lie
  35. Is “Law For Truth” The Solution To Political Defamation?
  36. Tuesday Talk*: The Mask and The Message
  37. Did Race Blow Up Dayonte Resiles’ Verdict?
  38. Short Take: Give Bragg A Chance
  39. Covid, Cops and Killings
  40. Name That Tune, SJ Edition
  41. Short Take: Twisted Logic Of The Carceral Left
  42. Rise Of The Activist Juror
  43. Seaton: My Christmas Vacation
  44. Innocence, Lost
  45. Short Take: Something To Bragg About
  46. Tuesday Talk*: Whose Fault Is Fat?
  47. Hurtful And Necessarily Divisive
  48. Will Covid Break The Equal Protection Clause?
  49. Better Tips, Worse Service
  50. Get To Work, Mr. Chief Justice, Or Else

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December 2021

  1. Seaton: SJ Year In Review 2021
  2. The Lost Year 2021
  3. Maxwell’s Conviction, A Step On A Slippery Slide?
  4. You Call That Living?
  5. The Tragedy Behind The Wall
  6. Short Take: The Racism of Disagreement
  7. The Bumbling Doofus Children of Harvard
  8. Christmas 2021
  9. Gifts of the Parents
  10. Seaton: Christmas At The Knoll
  11. Tidings of Comfort and Joy
  12. Will Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ 110 Year Sentence Be The One?
  13. The Re-Education of Professor Kilborn
  14. Tuesday Talk*: Was Ghislaine Maxwell Denied A Defense?
  15. Where Does Chris Noth Go To Defend?
  16. Folding Law Within Law
  17. The Ignored Years
  18. Short Take: Emojis Are Violence
  19. Florida Supreme Court Says No, Again
  20. Debate: Bah, Humbug, “Die Hard” Ain’t No Christmas Movie
  21. Debate: “Die Hard” Is A Christmas Movie
  22. The Failure of Denialism
  23. Bad Prosecutions And The Low Hanging Argument Against Them
  24. Tuesday Talk*: Did Polis Get Masks Right?
  25. Should Maxwell Be Allowed Anonymous Defense Witnesses?
  26. Short Take: Blow Predicts Civil War
  27. West Side, Corrected
  28. How Do You Fix A Problem Like Latinx?
  29. Krasner’s Wrong, But Not The Problem
  30. No Commission Recommendation, And No One Is Saved
  31. Seaton: A Very SJ Christmas Carol
  32. Turning Student Loan Debt Into A Civil Rights Issue
  33. Does Guilt Matter At The Jussie Smollet Trial?
  34. With 1st Amendment Friends Like These
  35. The Commission To Nowhere
  36. A Cause Or A Bundle?
  37. Tuesday Talk*: De Blasio’s Mandate
  38. Large Enough For Alarm
  39. The Movement Demands Sacrifice
  40. Crumbley Parents And The Causal Connection
  41. Prosecutors Have No Immunity From Ethics
  42. The Red Flag of “Loud and Proud”
  43. Exigency, Manufactured
  44. Seaton: Dispatches From The Field, Part II
  45. The Lawyer Lottery
  46. WaPo Announces “Roe Is Dead”
  47. Short Take: Use or Mention Of The N-Word
  48. When Cops Do The Damage, Is It A Taking?

November 2021

  1. Tuesday Talk*: Are “Minor-Attracted People” A Subject For Discussion?
  2. Thoroughly Uncontroversial Policing
  3. The Tyranny Of The Sixth Vote
  4. No Neutrals In Frxnce
  5. Short Take: The Cops We Want
  6. Cracked Nuts
  7. Seaton: Tiger King 2 Thoughts (Spoilers Included)
  8. Machado: Sentencing Commission To Judge Kane: We Got Nothing
  9. The Jury Defied The “Many”
  10. No Apology For Being Thankful
  11. What Now, Felony Murder?
  12. Short Take: The Language of Exoneration
  13. Charlottesville Liability And A Riot Near You
  14. Tuesday Talk*: A $31 Million Price Tag For Being Cancelled (Update)
  15. Thanksgiving Advice For Inclusive Lawyers
  16. The Color of Money For The Defense
  17. The Saga of Evelyn at Office Chair @ Work
  18. Quantifiably Dumb
  19. Rittenhouse Verdict: Who Sent What Message?
  20. Seaton: Dispatches From The Field (Part 1)
  21. Where Are You Oppressed?
  22. Is The Jury Next To Go?
  23. Gerken Takes “Full Responsibility,” Meaning Absolutely Nothing
  24. Short Take: The Trial That Made The Internet Stupider
  25. Tuesday Talk*: Gleeson’s Epiphany
  26. The Trap House Formerly Known As Yale Law School
  27. Why Work Need Not Be Your “Passion”
  28. The Blue Wall Still Stands in Joliet
  29. Short Take: The Plain Feel of Something Druggish
  30. Is Self-Defense “Broken”?
  31. No Narrative Will Bring Fanta Bility Back (Update)
  32. Seaton’s Sabbatical
  33. An “E” For Effort
  34. The Public And A Public Trial
  35. Judge Lippman’s “Common Sense” Solutions To Rikers
  36. Infrastructure Is Crumbling And Robert Moses Is Still Dead
  37. Tuesday Talk*: Is A New University The Answer?
  38. Death By Taser, Conviction For Murder
  39. Jaleel Stallings, Acquitted Of Defending Himself, Sues
  40. Short Take: Why Are Kids Killing Themselves?
  41. NY Rejected Effortless Voting
  42. Short Take: Sexism Or Was Solo Just Not That Sexy?
  43. McWhorter And The Linguist’s Hemline
  44. Seaton: Rethinking Campaign Strategy After Election Loss
  45. Separated Family Compensation; Did Biden Know?
  46. The Prejudicial Problem of Pointless Opinions
  47. Media And The Arbery Jury
  48. Meyer-Lindenberg: Cottoning on to Qualified Immunity
  49. “Constitutional” Coppery
  50. Tuesday Talk*: Are Women The Solution To Police Violence?
  51. Public Citizen Tests Piercing Online Anonymity
  52. Unruly Behavior And Another List

October 2021

  1. Ghosts of Halloween Past
  2. UF Is Tested On Academic Freedom And Fails
  3. They Represent Themselves
  4. Seaton: An Early Draft of the NSBA’s Apology Letter
  5. Are (Bad) Law Stories The Legal Lost Cause?
  6. Title IX And The Next Gen Transgender Issue
  7. The Deceased, By Any Other Name
  8. Tuesday Talk*: Who Should Rule the Virtual World?
  9. Short Take: A Zoo Too Far
  10. No News Is What?
  11. With Every Label Comes Rules, Or Else
  12. A School Named “Unconstitutional”
  13. Seaton: The Dentist’s Office and Why I Need A Drink Now
  14. Calamari Brain
  15. She’s Baa-aaaack: Lhamon Confirmed
  16. Who Is Responsible For The Digital Divide?
  17. Netflix And The TERF War (Update)
  18. Tuesday Talk*: Goodbye, Thomas
  19. Failure Of The Brittney Poolaw Prosecution
  20. Short Take: Studio 54, Where Are You?
  21. ACLU’s Double Barrel Attack On Free Speech
  22. Is It Charity or Duty?
  23. Did Portland Go Lawless?
  24. Short Take: Must We Take Every Grievance Seriously?
  25. Can Criminal Defense Lawyers Take Family Leave?
  26. Seaton: My Son Gets Into Sports
  27. Short Take: “Paralysis By Analysis” On Biden’s SCOTUS Commission
  28. A Very FAIR Response
  29. Short Take: A Trap House Grows at YLS
  30. Sentences Above The Government’s Request
  31. The Propaganda War
  32. Short Take: Qu’est-ce que c’est
  33. Tuesday Talk*: The $600 Snitch Law
  34. Toy Stores, California Style
  35. Is MIT’s Cancellation of Dorian Abbot Different?
  36. Short Take: Dowd Feeds The Frenzy
  37. Reading Is FUNdamental
  38. Hype and Passion Cost Us Qualified Immunity Reform
  39. Seaton: Clarifications, Updates and Retractions on Nextdoor
  40. Short Take: When Tik Tok Dares
  41. Making Of An Outrage
  42. Defending Derek Chauvin
  43. Short Take: Judge Pitman Stays SB8
  44. Seaton: Greg Ellis’ “The Respondent”
  45. Chicago’s Foxx Refuses To Charge “Mutual Combatants”
  46. Tuesday Talk*: Is “Woke Math” The Solution?
  47. Book Review: Carissa Byrne Hessick’s “Punishment Without Trial”
  48. Nicholson: Defending Sex Crimes Is A Woman’s Job
  49. Short Take: Family Privilege, Dismantled
  50. Short Take: Toilet Justice
  51. The Paradigm of Love and Hate
  52. In Criminal Law, Amateurs Break Things
  53. The Crumbling Debate
  54. The Vaccinated Courtroom
  55. Seaton: Oh Joy, It’s October
  56. Can We Trust Police Death Statistics?

September 2021

  1. Married To A Criminal Defense Lawyer
  2. Gordon Klein, Reinstated But Still Suing
  3. Reformers And Realities
  4. Tuesday Talk*: Reimagining Quotes
  5. Is “No Discretion” The Next Move For Sexual Assault Accusations?
  6. When A Twitter Jury Hangs
  7. The “Defendants’ Resistance” Movement
  8. More Than Posts, There’s SJ’s Guitar Dave
  9. Will California Succeed Where Washington’s 3LTs failed?
  10. Seaton: My Happy Shut-In Weekend
  11. Pop Words and Their Many Masters
  12. The Sentencing of Chris Cuomo
  13. Short Take: A Terrible Right
  14. Tenuous Connections of a Blank Mind
  15. The Banality of Tessa Majors’ Death
  16. Tuesday Talk*: Revenge of the Slackoisie
  17. Intellectual Repression Through Interpretative Dance
  18. Yale Law Dean’s “Default”
  19. At The VA, Critical Care and Critical Race
  20. The Point Isn’t To Fix The Law, But Murder It
  21. Covid Rules And Covid Cops
  22. Seaton: An Idiot’s Guide to DWTS Season 30
  23. Short Take: Minnesota Supreme Court Reverses Noor’s Murder 3 Conviction
  24. Selling of The Tax Gap Fix
  25. Following The Client Down The Plea Withdrawal Rabbit Hole
  26. Sexism and Prosecuting Elizabeth Holmes
  27. Syracuse Is Right; Will It Be Right Next Time?
  28. Can DoJ Overcome The Injunction Dilemma of Texas’ SB8?
  29. Tuesday Talk*: Great Performances at The Met
  30. The Handmaids of SCOTUS
  31. The Missing “Why?”
  32. 9/11 Servant To The Cause
  33. Seaton: Remembering Harry Anderson
  34. Cash Me Ousside
  35. God And Man At SCOTUS
  36. Traffic Stop Felonies, Declined
  37. Short Take: Should a Justice’s Home Be Off Limits?
  38. Short Take: Cop Can’t Cuff Licensed Gun Guy
  39. Tuesday Talk*: Tribe’s Fix For Texas’ “Private Attorneys General”
  40. Return of The Anti-Sex Crusaders
  41. Labor Day 2021
  42. The Shadow Docket, Demonized
  43. Seaton: The Mind of Maher
  44. Virginia’s Values Change, But Does Its Duties?
  45. Ex-DA Jackie Johnson Indicted Over Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion
  46. The Status Quo Ante Should Have Been Preserved
  47. Why Tribe Lost His Mind Over Sirhan Sirhan’s Parole

August 2021

  1. Tuesday Talk*: The Catechism Of The Elect
  2. A Mother’s Lament About “Unintentional” Sexual Assaults
  3. Arizona Eliminates Peremptory Strikes
  4. Short Take: Olivia Rodrigo Has No Respect
  5. What Did She Think Would Happen?
  6. Chalk Up A Win For The Fourth Amendment
  7. Seaton: A Health-Related Programming Note
  8. The Soul of Women Rape Defenders
  9. Kraken or Cracked
  10. Book Review: “Sexual Justice” By Alexandra Brodsky
  11. Rock of Ages
  12. Tuesday Talk*: Why Work?
  13. Nova Scotia Appeals Court Holds Historic Racism A Sentencing Factor
  14. To Serve Man
  15. See You In September
  16. Short Take: Peaceful or Standing, Pick One
  17. When The Winds of Empathy Shift
  18. Seaton: Deputy Tyrone Explains Crypto Currency
  19. Only What The Payment Processors Permit
  20. Illegal Re-Entry Law Held Unconstitutional
  21. McWhorter’s First: Reckoning With Woke
  22. Tuesday Talk*: Who Put The “Fed” In FedEx?
  23. The Persuasive and The Personal
  24. Afghanistan Open Thread
  25. Is Tolerance Dead?
  26. How Many Murders?
  27. Seaton Review: The Suicide Squad
  28. For Whom Does The Solicitor General Work?
  29. Kopf: An Extremely Short Blog on Covid-19
  30. Probably Negligent, But Criminal? Coaches Indicted For Murder
  31. Short Take: Queer Theory At Its Logical Extreme
  32. The Power of Video: Seeing Is Defaming
  33. Tuesday Talk*: The Real Enemy, Liberals
  34. Adrian Griffin Mounts His Defense Against #MeToo Lies
  35. Halkides: Bad Forensics in the 1970s British Bombing Cases
  36. Where Not To Look For A House
  37. Tolerance For The Unvaccinated
  38. Short Take: You Can Always Walk Away
  39. Go Big Or What?
  40. Seaton: My Squad Form Rejection Letter
  41. Normalizing The Rogue Presidency
  42. It’s Hard To Amend The Constitution; It Should Be
  43. When The Word Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
  44. Cuomo, The Governor and The Process You’re Due
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Renters, Landlord, Taxpayers, All At Risk
  46. Cops Now An “Irrebutably” Protected Class In Nassau County (Update: Vetoed)
  47. Brady Respected, 30 Years Later
  48. HBR: Call In Black
  49. The Last Reasonable Person

July 2021

  1. The Pink Mask of Shame (Update)
  2. The Rise and Fall of Artificial Intelligence
  3. Seaton: The Chicken Farm Fight
  4. Short Take: Repeal NPR
  5. The Bar Exam’s Traumatic Questions
  6. Short Take: Shaken Baby, 35 Years Later
  7. Moratorium Ends and The Mess Begins
  8. The Pasco Sheriff’s Letter
  9. Leave Simone Biles Alone (Update)
  10. Tuesday Talk*: Lawyer or Law Enforcement?
  11. Can DoJ Be Saved?
  12. Tokyo Meets Disparate Outcomes
  13. Should Defendants Shut Up or Talk Back?
  14. The Mental Health Alternative To Cops, And Its Limits
  15. Surprising Friends of The Second Amendment
  16. Seaton: Assorted Stupidity
  17. Lawfare and The “Disempowerment” of The Supreme Court
  18. Apology Excepted
  19. Reject Catherine Lhamon
  20. Short Take: Accommodating Becca Meyers
  21. Tuesday Talk*: Licking Justice (Update)
  22. Gone Cop
  23. Will The New Manhattan DA’s Policy Be “Prosecute The Innocent”?
  24. Roxane Gay, Still The Victim
  25. Even A Dick Is Entitled To Free Speech
  26. Cuba Libre and The Grocery Clerks
  27. Seaton: Worst Cooks, SJ Edition
  28. The Most Repugnant Man
  29. Short Take: Will The Feds Get Out Of The Weed War?
  30. The War On Democracy (For Today)
  31. Short Take: Judge Has A Poignant Epiphany
  32. Maud Maron Fights For The Soul of Legal Aid
  33. Tuesday Talk*: The Flying Filibuster
  34. Innocence Lost: What Now To Make of Cosby?
  35. Crime Plus “Smirk To Intimidate”
  36. Short Take: New York, Just Like JD Pictured It
  37. Not Fencing, Not Epee, Not Curtis
  38. Playing By The Rules
  39. Seaton: Coates on Captain America
  40. Short Take: The Day NYC Learned There Was No Glass Ceiling
  41. When Good Words Go Bad
  42. Reimagine Google
  43. Teachers Unions Know Better
  44. Cuomo Puts On An Emergency Gun Show
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Volokh Ponders The Internet As Common Carrier
  46. Is The Voting Rights Act Dead?
  47. Tense Day At A Spa
  48. E Pluribus Unum
  49. Even Dumb Rules Are Rules
  50. Truth, Justice and The American Way Come To The Texas Bar
  51. Seaton: Highball With The Devil
  52. What Will It Take For California To Discipline Former ADA Linda Allen?
  53. Cosby Reversed, Acquitted and Revealed

June 2021

  1. When A Juror Goes Rogue
  2. Tuesday Talk*: Should The Supreme Court Be More “Democratic”?
  3. Don’t Call It CRT, But That Doesn’t Fix The Problem
  4. Whose Fault Is Stringer’s Fifth?
  5. Rudy’s Right To Lie
  6. David Traywick Met Dignity on Facebook
  7. Short Take: The Problem With Democratizing Law
  8. Judge Willett Torches 5th Circuit Dismissal
  9. Seaton: My Uncomfortable Letter To Rachel Lindsay
  10. Climate Change In Florida
  11. Short Take: The New Rules of Thumb
  12. On The Internet, There Are No Schoolhouse Gates
  13. Short Take: Who Marshals The Marshals?
  14. Privilege Pricing and Equity Charge
  15. Tuesday Talk*: Moneyball (But No Lambos?)
  16. Prickett: Portland Police Take Their Ball Home
  17. Too Much and Too Little: Policing In NYC
  18. A Campus of Snitches
  19. An Honest Defense of the ACLU
  20. The Icing On The Cake
  21. Seaton: Deputy Tyrone’s Summer Vacation
  22. Human, Frustrated But Still A Portland Police Officer
  23. Has The “Victim Bias” Bubble Burst?
  24. Can Feds Dictate Gun Policy To Missouri?
  25. Chimamanda Explains
  26. Darker Shades of Pale
  27. Tuesday Talk*: Judge Jackson Confirmed; McConnell Conflicted
  28. The Boudin Jury Is Still Out
  29. ACLU Sued For Race Discrimination
  30. Can We Buy Our Way Out Of Poverty?
  31. Law Is Hard; Prohibiting Critical Race Theory Is Bad Law
  32. Calculating Parents And Gracious Losers
  33. Seaton: The Sheriff and The Spook
  34. Title IX Hearings and The Trauma of Being Tested
  35. A Flip By Any Other Name
  36. New York Considers Adopting Unconstitutional ABA Model Rule 8.4(g)
  37. Dread Scott
  38. Privacy and ProPublica
  39. Tuesday Talk*: Filibuster Whiplash
  40. Short Take: Toilets of Nashville
  41. Incentive Lost: The Lottery Future
  42. The Versatility of a Swiss Army Knife (Update)
  43. Who’s Responsible For Rudy’s Lost Year?
  44. Book Review: “A Good Mother” By Lara Bazelon
  45. Seaton: We Need A Task Force X
  46. Short Take: The Battle For Chicago Avenue
  47. SCOTUS Limits Reach of CFAA
  48. Short Take: Grinnell’s Bad Bet On Ternus and The Cat’s Paw
  49. The Bill Comes Due For Katie Hill
  50. 8th Circuit Rejects The Title IX “Victim Bias” Excuse
  51. Tuesday Talk*: The Intersection of Sports Celebrity and Mental Illness
  52. NY State Senator Anna Kaplan Writes Bad Law

May 2021

  1. Memorial Day 2021
  2. Errant Dicta and The Rule of Laxity
  3. The Viability of Roe v. Wade’s “Viability”
  4. Schrödinger’s Safe Deposit Box
  5. Seaton Review: Nine Nasty Words
  6. One Bad Cop And The Future of Policing
  7. But For Video: Awful and Unlawful
  8. When Did Principles Become A Bad Thing?
  9. A Grand Jury? So What?
  10. Tuesday Talk*: The Outrage That Must Not Be Named
  11. A Lie in Boise Is Still A Lie
  12. Short Take: Is Bias Really Better?
  13. The Last Walgreens in Frisco
  14. Scared Cops and Criminalizing Reasonable
  15. Halkides: Body Fluids And The Strength of DNA Evidence
  16. Lori Lightfoot’s Failed Woke Gambit
  17. Seaton: Nation Ponders Fauci’s Fate
  18. The Kansas Alternative: Citizen’s Grand Jury
  19. Short Take: Beatings in LA Is News That Doesn’t Fit
  20. Tenure Denied Hannah-Jones
  21. No Pride For Cops, But Close The Streets, Please
  22. Tuesday Talk*: Who Is That Masked Man?
  23. Why Wouldn’t Ramos’ Unanimous Jury Requirement Be Retroactive?
  24. A Champion’s Tale
  25. The Sound of Uniqueness
  26. Short Take: The Pronouns of Semiconductors
  27. Outrage Monkeys
  28. Seaton: An Open Letter To Jan Hoffman
  29. Short Take: Brooks On Wokeness, Co-Opted
  30. But For Video: Intercept’s “Wide Angle” Smear
  31. Short Take: Fulton County District Attorney Tested
  32. The Word: Punch
  33. Short Take: H.R. 1 and The Secret Game of Jurisdiction
  34. A Good Stop, Twisted
  35. Tuesday Talk*: Voir Dire Behind The Mask
  36. No Safe Choices For Birthing Persons
  37. The Health Care Aide Conundrum
  38. Schools Have Rules: Must BLM Be Left At The Schoolhouse Gate?
  39. Not So Peaceful
  40. Prosecutors And Bad Press
  41. Seaton: The Mark Doctor and the Ringmaster
  42. Grieving Prosecutors, Redux
  43. No Home in Austin
  44. The Worst Word And The Damage Done
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Daycare Isn’t Infrastructure, But So What?
  46. Impossible Or Evil Burger?
  47. Skink: Pity The Poor Menthol
  48. Odd Names and the Theft of Racism
  49. Seaton: But His Emails (NFL Edition)
  50. Short Take: Democracy or Bust
  51. Inflation By Degrees

April 2021

  1. Seaton at the Movies: Mortal Kombat
  2. Scott Stringer, Now Accused
  3. Short Take: Tensions And Ignorance at University of Arkansas
  4. Short Take: Biden Yells Fire
  5. Death and Murder After Chauvin
  6. Care and Feeding of Poor Children
  7. Holy Toledo, Prof. Lee Strang Won
  8. Tuesday Talk*: Touched By Tucker
  9. A Jury Of Whose Peers?
  10. Sophistry Is Bad, But Lying Doesn’t Make It Real
  11. Debate: This Divided Country Shall Fall
  12. Debate: It’s Time For A National Divorce
  13. My Dinner With George
  14. What Did Tiger Mom Do To You?
  15. Will Dems Prevent Abolition of Qualified Immunity?
  16. Seaton: Four Men Rent The Knoll
  17. Binghamton’s Lesson Too Far
  18. That Moment When Someone Is About To Die
  19. Donors To The Damned
  20. The Floyd Effect
  21. Reaching The “Right” Verdict
  22. Short Take: Is Free Press At Risk?
  23. No Resisting Dementia
  24. Property Paradox And Preventing Broken Windows
  25. Short Take: The Game Called Infrastructure
  26. Build A Bigger Bench?
  27. Seaton: Adventures in Lock Picking!
  28. Adam Toledo Complied
  29. The Soft Coup of the Progressoriat
  30. Repercussions At A Personal Level
  31. Morality and Survival
  32. Cariol Horne, Cop Hero
  33. Tuesday Talk*: Vanishingly Rare
  34. Conflicting Command Conundrum
  35. Deadly Legal Takes
  36. Woke, But Anti-Union?
  37. Criminalizing Awful
  38. Seaton: Reflections on British Sporting Press
  39. Has Eugene Volokh Punted On Revenge Porn?
  40. Kieran Bhattacharya and UVA’s Macroaggressions
  41. Consent And Lies
  42. Debate: Vaxsports, A Jumpstart To Real Life
  43. Debate: Vaccine Passports Cross A Line
  44. Short Take: Naturalizing Kafka
  45. Tuesday Talk*: Be A Trial Lawyer (Without Getting Off The Couch)
  46. Now-DoJ Karlan Makes It Official: Sex Means Whatever
  47. Short Take: Admissions Against Interest
  48. Emotional Infrastructure
  49. Border Scars and Bleeding
  50. Why Are Voter IDs So Controversial?
  51. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
  52. The Price of Incivility
  53. Seaton: Sheriff Roy Loses His Virginity
  54. Short Take: Brandon Elliot, The Outlier
  55. A “Poignant” Shift For The NYPD
  56. Televising The Floyd Trial, An Exercise In Trial Tactics Or Validation?
  57. For Manhattan DA, Not Diana Florence

March 2021

  1. Just Two People In Virginia
  2. Brutal Attacks Are Brutal
  3. 6th Circuit Puts Free Speech Ahead of Honorifics
  4. NYPD: Now Easier But Just As Pointless
  5. What About Mohammad Anwar’s Life?
  6. NYC Ends Qualified Immunity, So…What?
  7. Seaton At The Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  8. Short Take: Thirsty Voters in Georgia
  9. Biden Defies Gravity
  10. The Mystals Are Invited
  11. Shake and Bake
  12. Short Take: Is Gideon Sexist?
  13. If “Hate Crimes” Were Bad, Why Not Double Hate Crimes?
  14. Tuesday Talk*: A Soldier’s Duty
  15. Mao’s Moment
  16. Debate: Grizzly Bears Love Eating The Rich and Famous
  17. Short Take: Dean Too Woke
  18. Should Selective Service Be Less Selective?
  19. Who’s That Knocking At Your Door
  20. Crossed Lines and Lost Lines
  21. Debate: In the Criminal Justice System, Wealth Is A Huge Advantage
  22. Are More Voters An Inherent “Good”?
  23. Seaton: Mudlick After St. Paddy’s Day
  24. Short Take: No Names Needed At Brown
  25. First Title IX Trial Doomed By Jury Instructions
  26. Short Take: The Indecent Eighth
  27. New Crime Hidden Inside VAWA
  28. The Generation Gap of Reasonableness
  29. The Torture of Solitary
  30. Tuesday Talk*: The Floyd Settlement
  31. Short Take: Law Journals and Coloring Books
  32. Who Owns Justice Breyer?
  33. Of Public Concern
  34. Cuomo’s Short Fall From Grace
  35. Prolix and Prosecution
  36. Seaton: Random Stuff I Think Of In A Day
  37. Firing Words At Georgetown Law (Update)
  38. Short Take: JAMA Slama
  39. Plain Clothes in Plain Sight
  40. No Friend of the Court
  41. Tuesday Talk*: Nominal Damages or Advisory Opinion?
  42. Will Biden Shift The Title IX Paradigm?
  43. Short Take: Ring Around the Precinct
  44. Facts and Fixing What’s Broken
  45. Do Asian Lives Matter?
  46. Does Title VII Protect Heretics Of The Religion of Woke?
  47. Are Kentucky’s Cops That Fragile?
  48. Seaton: The Brawl For All
  49. Blue, Black and The Word
  50. Sullivan Explains The Win
  51. Dahlia Discovers Due Process
  52. The “Real” Issue In Brnovich (Update)
  53. Guilt or Guilty? A Challenge To The Cowards
  54. Seaton: The Montreal Screwjob
  55. But What About The Math?

February 2021

  1. Words of a Different Color
  2. Will Cuomo Get The Benefit of The Biden Rule? (Update)
  3. Short Take: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury
  4. A Compelling Progressive Paradox
  5. Seaton: Crowdsourced Smartassery, Jersey Edition
  6. Monopoly Of The Woke
  7. The Racist At Smith
  8. When Poll Numbers Skew
  9. AG James And A Blown Indictment
  10. A Malcolm X Letter Too Late
  11. Tuesday Talk*: Tanden’s Immunity
  12. BLM Mural Held Government Speech
  13. No Place For Prosecutors At Parole
  14. Can Science Survive Praise?
  15. The Rush To Hate
  16. Seaton Hosts The Bachelorette!
  17. Has PD Twitter Lost The Tune?
  18. Seaton: I Want To Host “The Bachelorette”
  19. Short Take: The Bachelorette and The Safety Net
  20. 5th Circuit Holds Torching By Taser Reasonable
  21. Short Take: Nabbing Mencken For Speeding
  22. Vaccination: Shot or Chaser
  23. The Color of Gideon
  24. Restoring Amy
  25. Tuesday Talk*: Are Cellphones The Answer?
  26. The Applicant’s Confession
  27. Medical Hero and Regulatory Villain
  28. “You Correct Them”
  29. Prickett: The Capitol Police, Metro Police and Aftermath
  30. McConnell and The Impeachment Gap
  31. A Once Honorable Profession
  32. Seaton: No, You Bastards Don’t Get “Redneck”
  33. Short Take: Kicking Carano, or Bippity Boppity Boot
  34. SPLC’s Critical Distinction: The “Good” Hate
  35. Wisconsin’s Solution Prevents Mayors From Firing Cops
  36. Kristof Wants Fox News Impeached
  37. The Coddled Defense of Free Speech
  38. Dumb PD Joke, But Protest Too Much?
  39. McWhorter and The Strawman
  40. Intolerant Times
  41. Tipping Point: A Vestige of Racism?
  42. Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
  43. Seaton: A Pats Fan Picks Superbowl LV
  44. At 95, It’s Time To Let It Go
  45. Biden To ABA: Get Lost
  46. Make Liberal Arts Great Again?
  47. Seaton: My Replacement For Jen Psaki
  48. Free Speech and Congressional Delusions
  49. But For Video: Adam Coy Charged With Murdering Andre Hill
  50. Short Take: Will Florida Own The Interwebz?
  51. The New Shame: Anti-Woke
  52. Tuesday Talk*: Family Circus
  53. Federal Judges By Resume
  54. Is Social Media Surveillance The Fix For Racist Cops?

January 2021

  1. Biden’s Pool
  2. Entitled To Counsel, Not A Mouthpiece
  3. Seaton: Fresh Meat on Rocky Top
  4. Ending Confession Induced By Lies
  5. Seaton: The Asshole Who Broke Memphis’ Color Barrier
  6. Content or Decibels
  7. Is Misinformation A Crime?
  8. Make The Filibuster Burdensome Again
  9. But For Video, The Texas Mask Massacre
  10. Unity, Week One
  11. Tuesday Talk*: Hawley’s Offense or Offensiveness
  12. Biden’s Burden: Unions or Children?
  13. Seaton: Dickson County Goes Full Europe On Speech
  14. Tacoma Run Down
  15. Short Take: Sokal’s Reality
  16. Apples and Equity
  17. The SJ Hotel Bar
  18. Seaton: A Rocky Coaching Conundrum
  19. Unity or Bust
  20. The “Other” Violence Against Biden
  21. Executive Orders At The Boundary of Legality
  22. Godspeed, President Joe Biden
  23. Organic Chemistry and Cancel Culture
  24. Tuesday Talk*: Pardon Me
  25. Shameka O’Neil’s Hang Up (Update)
  26. Seaton: John Drinks At The End (Yet Again)
  27. Kamala Harris In MLK’s Mind
  28. Rudy, For the Defense
  29. What If She Were Black?
  30. Buried Paybacks
  31. Seaton: The Misunderstood Mr. Williams
  32. When Child Turns Snitch
  33. Relativity In Portland: The Other Insurrection
  34. Short Take: Representing The Most Detested
  35. Shakespeare Matters (And Always Will)
  36. Tuesday Talk*: Was Twitter Wrong To Deplatform A President?
  37. The Divisiveness Defense (Update)
  38. Seaton: Deputy Tyrone’s Christmas Essay
  39. Prof. John Eastman’s Future
  40. A Bridgerton Too Far
  41. Riots in Black and White
  42. Don’t Cry For Sharen Ghatan
  43. Tainted By Trump? Leave The Judiciary Out Of It
  44. Short Take: If You Really Mean It
  45. Who Fears D’Angelo Lowe?
  46. Trump’s Insurrection
  47. Short Take: Begging For A Riot?
  48. You Don’t Have To Believe Lies
  49. The Room of Great Lawyers
  50. Damned If You Vaccine, Damned If You Don’t
  51. Oregon’s $62 Million Earmark
  52. Minnesota Upholds Revenge Porn Statute, Overbreadth Be Damned
  53. Testing Categorical Prosecutorial Discretion
  54. Short Take: The “Height of Selfishness”
  55. Must There Be Consequences?
  56. Seaton: The SJ Year In Review
  57. Short Take: The Next President (of URI)
  58. The Year of Reckoning With Responsibility

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