I Have Almost Nothing Bad To Say About Matthew Spencer Petersen
I have almost nothing bad to say about Mr. Matthew Spencer Petersen, President Trump's nominee to be a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. Mr. Petersen is smart and...
View ArticleThe Persistence of Tyranny
Seventy-five years ago this June, the United States Supreme Court corrected its own grave moral and legal error and ruled that the government could not compel Jehovah's Witnesses to salute the flag and...
View ArticleWhat It Means That Trump Is "Only A Subject"
Yesterday the Washington Post reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller views the President of the United States as a subject, not a target, of his grand jury investigation: Special counsel Robert...
View ArticleDear DNC: We Need To Talk About RICO
Dear Democratic National Committee: I'm sure you are all very excited about the big boisterous federal complaint you've filed against Russia, the GRU, Wikileaks, the Trump campaign, Rasputin, Richard...
View ArticleThe Southern Poverty Law Center Surrenders Unconditionally To Maajid Nawaz....
The Southern Poverty Law Center has surrendered, completely and unconditionally, in the face of a threatened defamation lawsuit by British activist and politician Maajid Nawaz. That surrender includes...
View ArticleThis Week On All The President's Lawyers: SHUT UP AND STOP DOING THINGS
Forever the best and most fundamental legal advice. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleAll The President's Lawyers: In Which There Are Swears
I think this was my favorite ATPL yet. Josh swore, I swore, we discussed limits of human idiocy, we speculated about what Judge Otero did in a past life to deserve this, it was a good time. Copyright...
View ArticleAll The President's Lawyers: Manafort's First Trial Draws To A Close
This week: the Manafort trial, Omarosa, and more. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleToday in Newspapers And Radio
All the President's Lawyers on our sleepy legal week. An interview on KPFA's UpFront. And a New York Times op-ed. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleWashington Post Today On The Problems With "Flipping"
Link here. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleThis Week on ATPL: IS IT RICO?
This week on All The President's Lawyers: what if it IS RICO? Also, can you charge $63,000 for a fees motion? Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleAlan 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...
View ArticleThirty-Two Short Stories About Jeffrey Epstein
Today at The Atlantic: link. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleAll The President's Lawyers: The Most Commonly Committed Federal Crime
This week's episode is now online: link. Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleThe Fourth of July [rerun]
[I've re-posted this many times, because it's fundamental to what it means to me to be an American.] In the hot summer of 1992, I was working for Judge Ronald S.W. Lew, a federal judge in Los Angeles....
View ArticleRandazza: The Neo-Nazi and The First Amendment
By Marc Randazza Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi whom many online publications refer to as a vicious online troll, is being sued by a Jewish citizen of Whitefish, Montana. Tanya Gersh accuses him of invading...
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