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From 2015 until 2019, Marc Randazza wrote for the blog Popehat. That blog has been discontinued, but Randazza’s posts from that blog are archived here. Some of Randazza’s views have changed since these were published, but they remain available nonetheless.
This here case is a pretty good story. It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. Folks there, well, everywhere, say the wheels of justice turn slowly. But, a few
By Marc J. Randazza I want a new trial for Tsarnaev – because FUCK Dzhokhar Tsarnaev! I don’t personally know anyone who got hurt in the Tsarnaev bombing. I don’t
By Marc J. Randazza Boston was home to a “Straight Pride” rally. Unsurprisingly, a bunch of idiots showed up to protest the other idiots, and idiocy ensued. It seems to
by Marc J. Randazza American citizenship is one of the most coveted statuses that mankind has ever invented. A majority of the 7 billion people on this planet would gladly
By Marc J. Randazza My client, Vermin Love Supreme (yes, that is his real name), recently filed to run for Attorney General of Kansas. Supreme is performance artist and a
By Marc J. Randazza The NFL says that players must stand (or remain in the locker room) during the National Anthem. No more “taking a knee.” In the same week,
By Marc J. Randazza I did not know Anthony Bourdain. But, he was a good friend to a good friend. I’m upset about his death for a few reasons. First,
By Marc J. Randazza Masterpiece Cakeshop was supposed to be one of the decisive battles in the war for “religious freedom,” or “gay rights” or “free speech,” or whatever you
Infowars might not be the most popular outlet with many of the readers (or at least commenters) on this blog, but I thought that anyone who gives a damn about
By Marc J. Randazza Norodom Sihamoni is the King of Cambodia. I had the opportunity to meet with him recently. I was in a whorehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam,
First Stormy Daniels tried to blame Tom Brady for threatening her. And now this… Today, Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, sued Donald Trump in the U.S. District Court for the
By Marc J. Randazza A Nevada court previously ordered the censorship of autopsy reports stemming from the Las Vegas massacre. (source) Today, the Nevada Supreme Court reversed that decision as
First Amendment Prevails as Final Portion of Trademark Act’s Censorship Regime Falls by Marc J. Randazza The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit just struck down the final
By Marc Randazza Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi whom many online publications refer to as a vicious online troll, is being sued by a Jewish citizen of Whitefish, Montana. Tanya Gersh accuses
By Marc Randazza When then-presidential candidate Trump uttered the words, “Get’em out of here,” at one of his rallies, Trump’s supporters assaulted three anti-Trump protestors. The protestors now want to
By Marc J Randazza The Oregonian reports, delightfully, Man arrested after ‘masturbating vigorously’ in public because he ‘hates Portland’. So would his rationale change this from just a run-of the
By Marc Randazza Barry (Obama, that is) is cashing in now. He’s going to rake in $400,000 to give a speech to Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street investment bank. Some
By Marc Randazza The news is abuzz with the unfortunate, disturbing, and misleading reports that a member of the group Code Pink was convicted of a crime for merely laughing
by Marc Randazza Well, something that is at stake. Whoever gets elected as French president will also become a co-prince, or co-princess, of Andorra. Yes, the French revolution did away
By Marc Randazza I’ve never been the biggest fan of Infowars. I’m glad it’s there, but it wasn’t my thing. When I got asked to be a guest on it,
By Marc Randazza The “March for Science” seemed like a great idea. Science is awesome. Making decisions based on evidence and the scientific method is superior to making decisions based
By Marc Randazza President Trump promised to get rid of a law that restricts churches from engaging in political speech. Trump said he would “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment. That
By Marc Randazza Melania Trump’s defamation case against the Daily Mail was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. (source) It does, however, continue against a Maryland based blogger. The Maryland
By Marc Randazza Nevada’s Anti-SLAPP law has survived a constitutional challenge to its validity in Shapiro v. Welt. Nevada’s original anti-SLAPP statute, Nev. Rev. Stat. 41.637 et seq., adopted in
I attended a protest in Miami on Friday. The crowd was upset that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered Miami authorities to cooperate with the federal government and the INS and
There are good and bad immigrants. Appleton Morgan explained this in Popular Science (vol 38). Morgan concluded that some immigrants just do not belong in America, no matter how hard
It is no secret that the Trump administration has a tense relationship with the institutional media. Conservatives have long felt that the media is biased against their point of view,
We should be worried about the Adverse Secondary Effects of making child porn illegal. A few days ago, I brought you this post about a cop who got busted for
Texas puts the “best” in bestiality! A cop got arrested for fucking a dog. Hilarity ensues. (source) And, who could sympathize with this cop? He was fucking a dog, after
Donald Trump infamously said he was going to “open up the libel laws.” First Amendment loving people pushed back — even a lot of Trump supporters, or at least people
We can never be too safe from awful speech. You know, speech with which we disagree. That kind. This douchebag got on a flight and went on a 45 second
“Journalists” are writing about “fake news” as if “bullshit” was something new. If you don’t know the name “Herbert Matthews,” but you think you know anything about Fidel Castro, you
So Castro is finally dead. Some are dancing on his grave. Some are mourning him. As usual, I agree with nobody. Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban dictator who preceded him was
Lets start with what this is not. I am neither predicting doom from a Trump presidency, nor am I telling you that you have nothing to worry about. That isn’t
The City of Delray Beach, Florida decided that it didn’t like “that kind of thing.” So, they took a page out of the moral-crusader textbook — formerly only used to
The finger is not obscene. Every so often, a case pops up where some prosecutor decides to press charges on someone for giving the bird. The most recent one, overturned
I often get asked the question, “why isn’t porn prostitution?” That led to a post a while back, Why is Prostitution Illegal, but Pornography is Not? And, perennially, a reporter
There are a bunch of websites out there offering “vote swapping” or “vote pairing” or “Trump trading” or “vote pact” whatever you want to call it. The Reddit-lawyers are certain
The “Condom Wars” in California are about to come to a head. Prop 60, if it passes, will mandate condoms in adult film production (among other things). The industry has
The story about the ABA “censoring” Susan Seager is not what it seems. One Newspaper reported “US lawyers ‘too scared’ to publish report on Donald Trump baselessly suing people –
Under the Lanham Act, a prevailing party can get its attorneys’ fees from the losing party in “exceptional cases.” 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a). While this is interesting enough in the
Chris Cuomo seems to be following his big brother’s lead when it comes to the First Amendment. On CNN, Cuomo said: “Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these
Is Trump really a “Libel-proof” Plaintiff? Donald Trump threatened to sue the New York Times for defamation based on a Times story about women accusing him of sexually assaulting them.
When I did my LLM in Italy, I got sat at the “Muslim Table” during a dinner. They plunked down three bottles of wine. I said “well, as long as
My most recent CNN Column discusses violence in political settings. See Defend Donald Trump’s right to free speech I don’t get to write my own headlines, ok? Some good people
On this day in 1922, the universe lit the fuse on the roman candle of the existence of one Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac. Somewhere along the line after that there
The USPTO is, apparently, a big Melville crowd. In December, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided In re Tam, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 22593 (Fed. Cir. Dec.
A Missouri professor has gotten more than her share of negative pixels this year. I actually decided after my last column on her that I was done writing about her.
I write this as someone who was willing to vote for Trump. This gives me great pause…. Donald Trump has said a lot of strange things — some funny, some
