You're right, but it's taken so long mostly because he's taken advantage of the system, which gives him multiple shots at justice. (I don't mean "taken advantage" in a cynical way.) If he wasn't allowed to pursue post-conviction relief or habeas corpus, he would have been doomed after being convicted and losing his…

Also, it works this way procedurally. This should give you some idea of why this has all taken so long. Dassey is convicted in a Wisconsin trial court. Then he appeals his conviction up the state court system, first to an appeals court and then to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. His appeals are denied.

As @mratfink says, he wasn't found innocent. In very general terms, if you're convicted but you persuade a court that there was some sort of error in the proceedings that led to your conviction, it doesn't automatically mean you're innocent. The state can take another crack at trying you, as long as the error that…

I suppose that's still possible, but early signs are not promising. Today he joined concurrences by Thomas and Alito in one case, and in another case he wrote a concurrence that Thomas joined.

Gotta add Gorsuch to that dissent now.

I haven't paid much attention to this case — never watched the Netflix documentary — but I'm going to guess this isn't over, and that there's a very real possibility this gets reversed, either by the full Seventh Circuit or the Supreme Court. It's next to impossible to win on habeas corpus in the federal courts, based…

The four GOP senators who said today that they can't vote for this bill right now — Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson and Mike Lee, a veritable Mount Douchemore — are essentially unhappy because it doesn't kill enough people. (Of course, they'll almost certainly come around and ultimately vote for it.)

I'm assuming "Ribald Lady" is the Maude Flanders origin story/spin-off.

Dupont Circle?

Handy guide: Alito is almost always wrong.

This can't happen. This cannot happen. I refuse to believe that this will actually happen. There's got to be enough of an outcry to prevent this from happening. What school would actually bring him to campus to do this? (Here is where we make our Baylor jokes.)

"Now there's a steal by Bird, underneath to D.J., lays it in!"

Ivanka?

Would that be Mike Pence?

Never tell me the odds!

I figured that the contestants on the show sign away their rights to go to court and agree to go to arbitration — which is the same thing we all do with cell-phone and all sorts of other contracts. (The conservatives on the Supreme Court have encouraged this to happen over the last generation or so.) And indeed, that…

I live in D.C., so I don't even have anyone to complain to. (Sigh.)

I've gotten the impression all along that the Old-aged Mutant Neck-fat Turtle won't be able to hold this together, based on what I've read about the competing interests of Republican senators. But I also know the Turtle will lie, cheat and steal to get what he wants, and the Republicans usually come home, which makes…

Tinder is still icky for people older than godless millennials, right? (Asking for a friend.)

Complaining is all we can do — unless you happen to be a mega-rich campaign donor who can get politicians to vote your way by threatening to withhold contributions — but it's everything. That doesn't guarantee they'll listen. But not complaining guarantees they won't listen.