Last month I I argued that Harvard Law Professor and frequent Fox guest Alan Dershowitz was lying to you by disguising his perfectly arguable view about what the law should be as a statement of what the law is. Specifically, Dershowitz argues that when someone (say, General Flynn) lies to an FBI agent, and the […]
Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You
Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law School professor and successful trial and appellate lawyer, is lying to you. He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for partisan reasons, in order to defend President Trump and discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller. […]
LAWSPLAINER: No, Kavanaugh's Confirmation Won't Free All Of Trump's Crimimous Minions Through An Obscure Double Jeopardy Case
I should not have to do this. But here we are. There's a political rumor/meme/argument going around in the last couple of weeks among people opposed to Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. It's a theory that Trump is rushing Kavanaugh onto the Court so he can rule on an obscure double jeopardy case […]
All The President's Lawyers: Torture Porn Edition
Josh tortures me with emoluments and exacting word-by-word analysis of Lawrence Tribe tweets. This week on All The President's Lawyers.
Lawsplainer: Feds Charge Four With Conspiring To Travel To Charlottesville To Riot
The United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville has obtained a federal criminal complaint against four men — Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas Walter Gillen, and Cole Evan White — charging them with interstate travel to riot and conspiracy in connection with the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally. […]
Cave Diver Vernon Unsworth Sues Elon Musk
If aliens grabbed some rando popped-collar douchebro off of a frathouse roof, Uplifted his brain, and handed him a billion dollars, they'd wind up with Elon Musk, a furiously rich, frighteningly smart visionary and ambulatory Ed Hardy shirt. The wisdom-dump-statted Musk has been terrifying Tesla shareholders by careening from one bizarre antic after another. It […]
Some Friendly Advice To New Law Students
Across America, law students are starting their first year. Some are attending elite law schools on a traditional track; some are taking classes at night and working during the day. Many of them are freaked out right about now. I have some words of encouragement. 1. Take all the clinics, practicums, and internships that you […]
Interpreting Judicial Ire Is Like Reading Entrails
I have a column at NBC.
Illinois Attorney General Stomps Notorious Censorious Jerkass Dennis Toeppen and His Infamous Suburban Express
Long-time Popehat readers may remember the persistently loathsome Dennis Toeppen and his what-if-you-had-a-racist-vexatious-litigant-bus-company Suburban Express, which services University of Illinois-Champaign. I wrote about them in April 2013, when he sued a bunch of university students in a distant small claims court, sued students for criticism, threatened defamation suits for criticizing their litigation campaign, and generally […]
Federal Court Vacates Prior Restraint Order Against LA Times, But Blasts Press In Attempt To Justify It
Yesterday I wrote about how United States District Judge John F. Walter issued an illegitimate prior restraint order against the L.A. Times, ordering it not to publish — and to depublish — information derived from a plea agreement made available on PACER, the federal court's docketing system. This morning Judge Walter held a hearing on […]
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