Return of the Rudy
Well, look who’s back. Former NYC Mayor and long-time Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani has joined President Trumps legal team. Additionally, Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin is also joining the Trump legal team.
Barbara Bush, Randa Jarrar, and the Outrage of Free Speech
Almost immediately, a fresh front was opened in the perpetual war between free speech and outrage.
Linky Friday: There Will Be Concussions
This week: Education, Football, Violence, Law, and Health!
Linky Friday: Circuit Courts
This week: Crime, Law, Science, Technology, and Education!
Linky Friday: Lawyers, Guns, & Money
And technology.
Linky Friday: Planet Justice
FLCPS Family, Law, Crime, Planet, Space
Linky Friday: I Fought The Lawd
This Week: Law, War, Religion, Media, and Politics!
Linky Friday: Work & Brainwork
Housing, Law, Work, Brainwork, and Art!
Linky Friday: Guns & Briefcases
This week: Cities, Crime, Law, Business, and Media!
Morning Ed: Law & Order {2016.01.17.T}
Legally speaking, what’s the matter with Kansas?
Impeach Barack Obama
Save America
Linky Friday #196: Natural Law
This week! Food, Obesity, Planet, Transportation, Work, and Courts!
#LawBot, or, Legal Advice in Twelve Tweets
A status check on technological disruption in the legal profession.
What Trump has in Common with a Subsistence Farmer
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
V for Vindication: Justifications for Piracy and Copyright
Perhaps there is more to piracy than its need to be stopped.
The Split (or How The Law Can Learn To Stop Modern Piracy And Illegal Downloads)
A look at fighting digital piracy in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Our Public Records Laws are Broken
On Email Servers, Government Use Thereof
Redlining the Declaration (A Greatest Hit)
Originally run on his private blog way back in 2011, Burt Likko offers an editor’s view of the organic document of the United States of America.
COMMON LAW: Imperfect Entities
It turns out, there are holes in the law. Here’s how Burt Likko found one.
Legal Draftsmanship, Part XIV
Submitted for your consideration, a candidate for the “unlikely sentence exemplar” award.
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
Litigating in “Easy” Mode
What, it takes three years of law school to do that?
Like Jason Voorhees In That Last Scene
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Test Clause predictably collide with Obergefell v. Hodges in Eastern Kentucky.
Know Your Executioner
A condemned man in Tennessee wants his lawyers to depose the people who would be his executioners.
Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion
I’ve never done this before — promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got a pretty decent thought out there.
Still Better Than The Four-Level
It’s about the journey more than the destination: a glimpse into one summer day in DTLA.
Delivering Due Deference
Chief Justice Roberts was nearly silent during oral argument, and then wrote the 6-3 majority opinion in today’s Obamacare case. Burt Likko replies to Justice Antonin Scalia’s accusations of through-the-looking-glass judicial activism.
A Sore Test of a New Conviction
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be “justice,” vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit will you find.
Liberating Campuses Legally
Outrage drives media sales, after all, nearly as well as does fear and possibly better than does envy. … Fortunately, the law offers a reasonable response to that which is seemingly so outrageous.
SIHTAF: Manny Pacquiao Made Me Bet Wrong
The fight in the ring in Las Vegas last weekend was not nearly as tedious as the ones coming up in the courtroom are going to be.
Juror No. 49 Is Thanked And Excused
Many are summoned. Few will serve.
When Text And Context Collide
Wednesday, the Supreme Court will entertain the latest challenge to Obamacare. If you can make it all the way through this post, you’re going to understand what’s going on way better than your neighbors. Added bonus: a significant detour through the jurisprudence of piscene spoliation, which you’ve no doubt all been anxiously awaiting.
SIHTAF: Pleading Prisoners’ Plasticity of Personal Piety
When an atheist prisoner self-identifies as Jewish, it provides an insight into the engine driving what Burt Likko predicts will become the next wave of litigation by the incarcerated against their jailers.
Review Of The Charges
A close look at the law and the allegations suggests that outrage about the Brandon Duncan prosecution may be based on incomplete information. Burt Likko dissects the charges and the law for your review, compares that to the advice of his colleagues, and then finishes his nightcap.
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
Casus Contendentes (Now With Update)
Burt Likko wonders whether, despite the unmitigated human rights awfulness that is the nascent would-be state forming in northern Iraq, swallowing our idealism and adopting a strategy of economic containment wouldn’t be a more practical alternative to making war against ISIS.
UPDATE: Reaction to President Obama’s address of September 10.
