By Christopher Duston This is a story about hypothesis and fact-checking on the gun-violence debate. And about how proving you are wrong about something is better the thinking you are
By Larry Sutter, Special to the Legal Satyricon The Southern District of New York recently issued its order dismissing the United State’s case against Julian Heicklen. The order is available
By Dr. Marty Klein Iceland, the world’s oldest democracy, is now heading in exactly the opposite direction. And they’re doing it in a familiar way—by eliminating choices regarding sex. Iceland
by Charles Platt Send a drunken email from the UK to the White House, calling the president a prick, and you’re banned from the United States for life. Or so
Christopher Harbin is a second-year law student at the University of Michigan. His interests include anonymous internet defamation, net neutrality, John Doe lawsuits, obscenity law, video game law, and corrupting
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent As first reported here and here, the Second Amendment does not act (currently) as a restriction on the states’ power to regulate
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent Recently, the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a felon’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Kenneth Robinson plead guilty to possession of
by Sam Lea Legal Satyricon Correspondent Blogging, an often controversial area of the “marketplace of ideas,” has just won a victory over an overzealous attorney, who improperly sought to silence
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent Today the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller. The background of the case is available here: http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/guest-blawg-jonathon-blevins-on-the-second-amendment/ The agonizing
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS PASTOR – AMERICA ON RACE BY BIRDSONG Birdsong is not an oracle. Yet, Birdsong is always asked difficult questions. This week people have been asking Birdsong:
One of my most stellar former students (and one who was never afraid to take me on in class), Mr. Jeffrey Fuller chimed in on the Clash of the Anti-Hillaristas
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent I have my own opinions on the Second Amendment that can be boiled down to this: The Second Amendment says what it
