Burt Likko reviews a tumultuous week and a half in America's justice system, and muses about its...
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
In which pro-vaccination employment attorney Burt Likko is repeatedly asked to help people avoid their employers' vaccination...
In which I take Andrew Donaldson to task for advocating the end of a cultural juggernaut whose...
What might be done to mitigate the contra-democratic effect the peculiar tradition of filibuster has in the...
Burt Likko compares the bizarre subversion-of-democracy fantasies of Trump supporters with the actual law, and is unimpressed.
It was, quite simply, a definitively Portland experience, the exact sort of thing I had hoped to...
Opponents of D.C. statehood, with the certainty of gospel truth, state DC statehood would require a Constitutional...
Seven little glimpses into Burt Likko's DQ (During Quarantine) life
In which a farmer from Ohio and a very sick woman from California, across the generations, test...
Does the Constitution guarantee a right to have the Constitution itself? A recent dissenting opinion suggests so,...
The story of “Mrs. Fletcher,” a limited series currently on HBO based upon a novel by Tom...
The past isn't ever really past, and ghosts don't ever die. So instead of avoiding them or...
U.S. v. Nixon was, beyond doubt, the most consequential decision Burger ever wrote and probably the most...
"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and...
A bingeable podcast series confronts the big question, "Are We Doomed?"
I did it like this,
I did it like that.
I did it with a soggy three-dollar Santa hat.
Much ink has been spilt since Donald Trump's election regarding the legitimacy of the U.S. government system,...
It's been a month, so we're checking in on our old friend Burt to see if he's...
A few words from a momentarily homeless editor emeritus.
After the eulogy, a peculiar hollowness.
