Rick Hasen
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How Exactly Are We Going To Vote In This Pandemic?
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Government
Election Law Special With Rick Hasen
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Government
Documents Prove Citizenship Question Added To Boost White Power, And The Supreme Court Is Probably Cool With That
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Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch Is A Cheap Knock-Off
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Supreme Court
When You're Getting Reamed For Saying It's OK To Compare Gay People To Murderers, Doubling Down On Calling Justice Sotomayor 'Thuggish' Ought To Fix Things
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Election Law Takes Center Stage
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Will Republicans Continue To Fight Trump's Voter Fraud Commission When It Costs Them Something?
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.30.17
Ed. note: Early wishes for a happy July 4th weekend! We’ll be back on Wednesday, July 5 (barring unforeseen news).
* I don’t know that free speech is under cultural attack, as this post argues. But I do think people are using lawsuits to bash speech they don’t like. Instead of lecturing people about the sacred right of Nazis to intimidate people on Twitter, I’d rather the First Amendment crowd came up with a real regime of sanctions for people who bring lawsuits against clearly protected speech. I just don’t know that the Deplorable fanboys would recognize that as a sufficient way to fight for their freedom to talk out of their asses. [Popehat]
* The Fifth Circuit has now conferred qualified immunity on expert witnesses, deployed to spout whatever nonsense the government thinks will help them gain a conviction. The Democrat who runs on a criminal justice reform platform that included changing the rules around qualified immunity would probably get my vote. Instead they’ll probably run a Goldman executive with an innovative plan to retrain bigoted hill people for the hi-tech jobs of the future. [Simple Justice]
* What Trump is actually trying to do with his voter fraud investigation is horrifying. But Professor Rick Hasen says it won’t work, and I’m going to trust him because I do not want to get pissed off about a whole new thing this close to a long weekend. [Slate]
* Texas isn’t sure that same-sex marriage means that same-sex couples get marriage benefits. Sigh. Look, Texas is going to lose its fight against gay people, eventually. YOU HEAR THAT YOU HAT WEARIN’ COWBOYS? Gay people are going to kick your ass and have sex in your Alamo. [Texas Tribune]
* Based on the settlement data, The Root came up with a methodology to calculate the worth of a black life. Ballpark, the state pays about $3,364,875 per family for the right to kill us without criminal accountability. If you’ve got thoughts about how the state spends too much money in settlements, keep them to yourself. [The Root]
* Stay safe out there this long weekend. The Texas Law Hawk has some fireworks safety tips. [Texas Law Hawk]
* Checking in with the Alt-Right, I could go with all the stories about how people have called Kellyanne Conway “ugly,” which is apparently the Alt-Right defense for the president mocking Mika Brzezinski? But this headline is just too good: “Germany Surrenders to Trump, Waters Down G20 Climate Plan #Winning” They’re making water puns, y’all. They are defiant. You can’t even blame the Earth for trying to kill all of us. [Breitbart]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.28.17
* Very interesting piece by Mark Joseph Stern on Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s dissent in Pavan v. Smith (aka the “LGBT parents on birth certificates” case). It seems to me that Justice Gorsuch’s statement is technically correct — the Arkansas Department of Health (1) was okay with giving the named plaintiffs their birth certificates and (2) conceded that in the artificial-insemination context, gay couples can’t be treated differently than straight couples (see the Arkansas Supreme Court opinion, footnote 1 and page 18) — but it’s either confusing, at best, or misleading and disingenuous, at worst (the view of Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, counsel to the plaintiffs). [Slate]
* Speaking of Justice Gorsuch, Adam Feldman makes some predictions about what we can expect from him in the future, based on his first few opinions. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Professor Rick Hasen has made up his mind on this: “Gorsuch is the new Scalia, just as Trump promised.” [Los Angeles Times]
* The VC welcomes a new co-conspirator: Professor Sai Prakash, a top scholar of constitutional law and executive power. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Now that Harvard Law School will accept GRE scores in lieu of LSAT scores, what do law school applicants need to know about the two tests? [Law School HQ]
* And what do Snapchat users need to know about the app’s new “Snap Map” feature? Cyberspace lawyer Drew Rossow flags potential privacy problems. [WFAA]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.20.17
* Justice Thomas wants the Court to reconsider qualified immunity. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Stephen Colbert roasts Donald Trump’s new lawyer. [Huffington Post]
* Get your damn story straight already. [Slate]
* This is just a lawsuit waiting to happen. [Lowering the Bar]
* A deep look at the gerrymandering case, with Professor Rick Hasen. [Bloomberg Law Radio]
* Rachel’s choice. [Salon]
* Dealing with debt. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.20.17
* “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study,” by our very own Elie Mystal. [New York Times]
* Professor Rick Hasen responds to Judge Alex Kozinski’s colorful dissental in the travel-ban litigation. [Slate]
* Speaking of the Ninth Circuit, should it be broken up? Prominent appellate lawyer Ben Feuer makes the case against. [Los Angeles Times]
* Professor Ilya Somin hopes senators ask Judge Gorsuch these questions at tomorrow’s hearing. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* But his co-blogger, Professor Orin Kerr, isn’t holding his breath for revealing answers. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Walt Pavlo wonders: are former prosecutors from the S.D.N.Y. padding their résumés? [Forbes]
* Almost three years have passed since the death of Eric Garner — and we still have many more questions than answers. [CityLand / New York Law School]
* Jane Genova: What can legal media and marketers learn from Jimmy Breslin? [Law And More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.25.17
* The United States has been downgraded to a “flawed democracy.” [New York Daily News]
* The irony is too much. [Washington Post]
* Rick Hasen on how a voter fraud investigation should really go. [Slate]
* The ACLU wants Jeff Sessions back before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [ACLU]
* Trump’s election changed a lot of things. [Medium]
* Get ready for insurance to be disrupted. [Law and More]
* Wait, where the heck _is_ Staci?
https://twitter.com/stacizaretsky/status/824339825063055364
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.04.16
* Will ballot selfies ruin democracy? A debate between Rick Hasen and Elie Mystal. [New York Times]
* Tim Kaine’s law school roommate dishes on the experience. [Salon]
* How to survive your first year as an associate. [Ms. JD]
* Thinking about faking it as a lawyer? You could go to jail for that. [Patch]
* Republicans are already talking impeachment if Hillary wins, but can they pull it off? [LawNewz]
* The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL) is partnering with Legal.io to improve access to pro bono and legal referral services. [Legaltech News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.22.16
* Are law firms being exploited by their clients to launder money? [Wall Street Journal]
* Richard McLaren is the law professor who laid the ground work for Russia potentially being banned from the Rio Olympics over a doping scandal. [New York Times]
* An analysis of the legal issues in the new Ghostbusters movie. [The Legal Geeks]
* Review of Anxious Lawyer (affiliate link), a new book by AtL columnist Jeena Cho and Karen Gifford. [Legal Ink Magazine]
* What does Rick Hasen think will happen in Texas now that the 5th Circuit has struck down its voter ID law? [KUT]
* Matthew Dowd and Robert Kulik, the lawyers turned children’s book authors we previously profiled, went on TV to discuss their work. [ABC News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.11.16
* The 2016 election cycle has been a doozy, and we still have six months left. Rick Hasen, Tom Mann, and Norm Ornstein discuss going from political dysfunction to Trump. [Election Law Blog]
* Father Michael Reilly is being sued for cursing and using other offensive language in the course of his work at Saint Joseph’s by the Sea High School on Staten Island. [New York Daily News]
* Who files the most amicus briefs with the Supreme Court? A report by the numbers. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Is it possible to get funding for a truly unique idea in real estate investment? [The Real Estate Philosopher]
* Deep thoughts on covering the legal industry with Above the Law’s editor-at-large, Elie Mystal. [Mimesis]
* What’s it like to be out at a Biglaw firm? [Big Law Business]
* The Supreme Court has approved a rule change to dramatically increase the government’s ability to hack into computers and phones worldwide. [Slate]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.20.16
* Well, this warms my calloused heart: Chief Justice Roberts learned some sign language to swear 12 deaf and hard of hearing lawyers into the Supreme Court. [Washington Post]
* An enlightening interview with an attorney that proves lawyers can have entrepreneurial spirit, Richard Nacht. [Law and More]
* Professor Rick Hasen’s analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Arizona redistricting case. [Election Law Blog]
* An interview with Matt Delmont, author of Why Busing Failed (affiliate link), on the continued segregation of schools. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Did lawyer Linda Shi just help design a revolution in air conditioning? The product is being funded through Kickstarter, and the size of the unit makes me think it’d be welcomed in many NYC apartments this summer. [Kickstarter]
* Economists and tax law professors are getting behind Elizabeth Warren’s tax filing simplification bill. [MassLive]
* An in-depth look at black sites — CIA secret prisons, used in the U.S.’s War on Terror. [Slate]
* Our very own David Lat shares cybersecurity tips with host David Lesch on “Today’s Verdict.” [BronxNet]