New from Kevin Light-Roth: Tim Ballard promoted the use of sting operations to combat sex trafficking until his own sexual misconduct allegations tore his career to shreds. Now, the families of men he helped send to prison are demanding answers: theappeal.org/net-nanny-wa...
New from Kevin Light-Roth: Tim Ballard promoted the use of sting operations to combat sex trafficking until his own sexual misconduct allegations tore his career to shreds. Now, the families of men he helped send to prison are demanding answers: theappeal.org/net-nanny-wa...
Litigating the question of whether or not sex offense registries are punishment feels weird, because it's like you're talking a different language than the rest of the world uses. It's colloquially seen as a punishment, but exist without the constitutional protections that accompany punishment.
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Litigating the question of whether or not sex offense registries are punishment feels weird, because it's like you're talking a different language than the rest of the world uses. It's colloquially seen as a punishment, but exist without the constitutional protections that accompany punishment.
still, I am grateful I get to put my back into something I believe in, and that I know I'm right about, even if it's not popular, even if it won't make me a ton of money or friends.
being a lawyer is great until you have to write a brief, good god
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
still, I am grateful I get to put my back into something I believe in, and that I know I'm right about, even if it's not popular, even if it won't make me a ton of money or friends.
I had a scan of a subpoena I needed to straighten out and deskew, and I thought I could use AI to do that. It did a great job of cleaning up the document, but then it also completely mangled the words on the document making it unusable.
So close, yet so far.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I had a scan of a subpoena I needed to straighten out and deskew, and I thought I could use AI to do that. It did a great job of cleaning up the document, but then it also completely mangled the words on the document making it unusable.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
Not for nothing, but there is a mechanism for federal defendants to seek reimbursement of legal expenses where they were wrongly prosecuted, but there's an exclusion if the defendant had a net worth of a mil or more.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Not for nothing, but there is a mechanism for federal defendants to seek reimbursement of legal expenses where they were wrongly prosecuted, but there's an exclusion if the defendant had a net worth of a mil or more.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
Efforts to “protect children” by censoring the open Internet have backfired spectacularly. Tor use is soaring — and with it, exposure to CSAM. I unpack the consequences in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Efforts to “protect children” by censoring the open Internet have backfired spectacularly. Tor use is soaring — and with it, exposure to CSAM. I unpack the consequences in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...