Category Archives: Law

Nothing Is Easy

February 17, 2024 – 6:17 pm

It’s remarkable how complex any topic — especially anything to do with society and law — can be when you examine it closely. Take, for example, drunk-driving, which on the face of it seems simple enough. We know that driving drunk is dangerous — I’ve had friends who have died from it, and I nearly […]

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Missouri v. Biden

July 5, 2023 – 7:14 pm

Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty gave us a fine Independence Day gift: a preliminary injunction against the government’s censorship of social-media content. The case built upon the government’s coercion of Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to suppress commentary on COVID, the 2020 election, the Hunter Biden laptop, and other matters we should have […]

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Selective Outrage

June 24, 2020 – 9:33 am

We hear in the media, and from his political opponents, that Donald Trump considers himself to be “above the law”. Unsurprisingly, such accusations never seemed to be leveled at his predecessor. As this four-part list of two hundred examples shows, though, they might well have been.

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SCOTUS Does It Again

June 18, 2020 – 2:35 pm

Another day, another calamity at the Supreme Court: John Roberts sides with the liberal wing to block the recission of DACA, remanding it to the Department of Homeland Security for another try. The argument in the majority opinion — and along with the dissenting Justices, I think it’s so thin as to be quite transparent […]

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Et Tu, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts?

June 16, 2020 – 1:10 pm

It was a busy day yesterday at the Supreme Court — and from over here on the Right, a disappointing one as well. I haven’t read the opinions, so I should refrain from analysis, but the results — in particular, blows against freedom of association, the Second Amendment, and enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws […]

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Another Small Victory

May 7, 2020 – 4:27 pm

The big news today is the vindication of General Flynn, but there was another heartening local item as well: a federal judge has blocked Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker’s executive order keeping gun shops closed. Today, U.S. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock issued a preliminary injunction to prevent Massachusetts from enforcing the unlawful order. “We don’t surrender […]

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Some Good News, For A Change

May 7, 2020 – 4:16 pm

Wonderful news, just in: the DOJ has dropped the case against Michael Flynn. The prosecution, which had no basis in law and will be judged by history as part of a political scandal without rival in the modern era, began to fall apart last week after recently revealed documents revealed the enormity of the FBI’s […]

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“An Extraordinary Legal Defect”

May 3, 2019 – 2:36 pm

In the news today is a scathing letter from Emmett Flood, the Special Counsel to the President, to Attorney General William Barr. It was written on April 19th, shortly after the lightly redacted Mueller Report was released to the public. The Mueller Report may have produced no indictments, but this letter charges the Mueller team […]

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How Many Murders?

February 3, 2019 – 11:47 pm

There was a horrible story in the local news today: A young woman, pregnant, was stabbed to death in an apartment-building lobby. We read: The killer targeted the 35-year-old woman’s stomach, according to the building super, who said she watched surveillance-video footage that captured the murder. “He’s got a knife! He’s going to kill the […]

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Twitter, Trump, And The First Amendment

May 23, 2018 – 8:07 pm

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump can’t block Twitter users from following him. Here’s a key excerpt from the ruling, by Judge Naomi Buchwald of New York’s Southern District: We hold that portions of the @realDonaldTrump account — the “interactive space’ where Twitter users may directly engage with the content of the President’s […]

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DUI and the Constitution

February 20, 2018 – 2:08 pm

Here’s a legal article with an “arresting” preamble: I hope to convince you in the next hour, some of you, that the greatest single threat to our freedoms, the freedoms set forth in the Bill of Rights, is not from Iraq or Iran. I don’t think it’s from North Korea. I don’t think it’s from […]

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