Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón suspended a deputy district attorney without pay for five days last month because prosecutor Shea Sanna was guilty of “misgendering” a sex offender. In Gascon World, the offense also can be called “dead-naming.”…
It feels like yesterday that Instagram populated my feed with youthful influencers and their cat-eye tutorials and crop tops. Today, Instagram sends me haggard moms tackling “wake windows” and reviewing “signs a baby is cold at night.” The algorithm did…
Emily Kohrs, the foregirl of the special grand jury investigating alleged election interference in Georgia, came across in her media blitz this week as jarringly ebullient, flaky, and immature. How else does the public expect one parlaying a seat on…
The full title of Erwin Chemerinsky’s book says it all: Worse Than Nothing — The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School, tells readers that the doctrine of constitutional interpretation now favored by a majority of…
Should the race of a minority student who is applying to a college or university give him or her an advantage over other applicants? This is the question that a group of college-bound students and their parents are asking the…
“You say the present U.S. regulatory system is broken and that at best the ‘practical’ solutions offered today might make things less bad but not solve the fundamental problems,” an expert said. “Well, what would you propose as a positive…
Last month at the Sixth Annual Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society, Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (disclosure: my former boss) issued a call to arms. Ho, who earlier this…
The combination of class action lawsuits and contingency fee payment arrangements has reached its apotheosis in today’s mass tort system. Not only is this flawed system harming American business to the tune of well over $300 billion annually, but it…
Laws on abortion are changing day by day and often hour by hour across the 50 states following the reversal of Roe v. Wade on June 24. Below is a breakdown of the status of abortion laws in each state. …
