There is certainly a line where, once crossed, the ethics board is willing to censure and attorney for actions in their private life. Conduct unbecoming, however, is about protecting the image of the legal profession as a whole. I think I agree with you that looking like a racist asshole on a viral video while being…

sorry, could you repeat that?

Innocent people do not say, “I do not recall” that much. I do not recall is code for “you can’t prove it.” You ask an innocent person what they had for lunch 3 months ago and they might not recall. You ask them about something 2 years ago that could implicate or absolve them and they absolutely do.

Makes sense. The Fresh Kitchen in question is right by their office and he is wearing the uniform of “attorney who didn’t have court today” in the video.

Yea, I would argue that it is impossible to consent while subject to the threat of arrest, but I guess cops are so dumb they needed it to be spelled out for them.

This is absolutely disgusting. Of the many bold-faced lies transcribed through this article, the Senate found that no valuable intelligence came through its torture program.

Great writing on this piece, you did a excellent job capturing what a sentencing is like and what the relevant facts for the court’s considerations are.

I am not doing anything other than trying to educate your ignorant ass. I did not make up the phrase “enhanced interrogation techniques.” In 2002, the attorney general’s office issued series of legal memos calling the interrogation techniques that we all recognize as torture, “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The…

Ya’ll are missing the key points w/r/t to the Haspell nomination process: (1) the CIA has refused to release all but select and tacitly admitted, favorable information from her personnel file to the senate and the public; (2) the senators only have about 5 mins each to question her in the public setting; (3) they…

A preemptively cranky Burneko is the only Burneko we deserve in 2018.

The NCAA will never change on its own. The NCAA is controlled by its member schools. There is no incentive for them to change, nor could one be fashioned outside of the courtroom. While college football is more entrenched, the NBA could destroy college basketball within 5 years by investing in the G league.

One of them is definitely saying “I am a damn cop,” but I can’t tell if they mean to convey “stop fighting” or “stop hitting me.”

Moreover, how much time are they spending around Elephants?

yup. Ignore their own principles in the name of principles.

The fact that he has hired and fired so many lawyers is insane. No one behaves like that. But, for the attorneys, that’s what they do. Attorneys are not good or bad people, they are agents for their clients. These attorneys specialize in defending people accused of all sorts of bad acts. Trump is just another client…

Who are these people that believe that hot dog water is a beverage? I mean, I believe that there are all sorts of trash people in this world and them someone might think hot dog water is a beverage. I refuse to believe that there are some many people who share that belief that they can be readily identified and put…

The Julie B v. Burneko exchange was the best. I enjoy Burneko for his drawn-out insults. But, Julie B! WOW! “Perhaps then, you can understand life’s priorities are far more expansive than your finger’s racing proclivity to type vitriol” is an amazing burn. The come back was just ok.

Should the media play some role as arbiter of truth? I do not think there is anything worse than some d—bag saying some racist stuff and then getting called up on a cable news to “answer for it,” but instead just saying that the sky is green and having that go unchecked. If the media does not care about the truth,…

You daughter seems incredibly intelligent and confident, way to go. Honestly, I didn’t read all the way through your take because it was a kinda long. My question is how does someone get from “George Bush doesn’t like black people” to “Slavery was a choice.” My guess is cognitive dissonance, lack of empathy for…

Apparently, this website has an inordinate number of 17 year-olds and/or grandmas on staff drinking whiskey sours ...