In 2016, Castor said this about that sentence in the press release ... So he appears to share my tortured reading, or at least he did.

You’re right. I noted it was text from Castor’s email, but I’ve had a long day and somehow missed the testimony from Constand’s attorneys. That said, now that I’ve had some coffee, on the rest, I think you’re the one making the tortured reading.

A prosecutor makes a basically secret, informal agreement with a powerful man to help the powerful man in a civil trial regarding the same conduct, and that secret, informal agreement then forms the basis for overturning a jury verdict finding him guilty.

Maybe at one point, there have been a number of studies in the last five years that rate it as being similar to or better than comparable private health care, with lower wait times for a lot of procedures compared to the private providers.

Rose Matafeo is also in series 9 of Taskmaster and Baby Done, which I enjoyed, just throwing that out there. 

Been on vacation and didn’t check Jez.

Yeah, but what kind of car door, are we talking Trabant or Mercedes?

The Weiner story tends to get condensed in the public consciousness, the whole thing actually happened over five years with multiple women and ended when he was investigated and prosecuted for sexting a minor in 2016. The pictures that resulted in his resignation from Congress in 2011 weren’t sent to a minor, same for…

I don’t disagree, but that sounds more like an employment discrimination claim based on a suspect classification, than a 1983 case alleging the State infringed on someone’s First Amendment rights.

I would quibble with what you think is actionable. Sure, courts broadly show deference to academic panels when it comes to tenure, appointment, or reappointment decisions, and want to avoid becoming a supra-review venue for day-to-day academic personnel decisions, but that isn’t an absolute bar to these types of…

I agree with the rest of the general argument you posted, but doesn’t this narrowing of state action sound specious if you think about it? First of all it doesn’t cover the full range of state action that has been historically applied to limit speech, and second it doesn’t take into account that UNC Chapel Hill is a…

There was a twitter thread yesterday from Jake Sherman, an NBC/MSNBC analyst, saying that Dems are not planning on passing anything more through budget reconciliation for fiscal year 2021, and saying that waiting to pass things in fiscal year 2022 would give Senate Republicans more ammunition because it’ll be running…

Gotta keep that peonage ball rolling.

I wonder how Biden will defend this...

Speaking from personal experience, books like TGOW are undercut by being foisted on high schoolers who would rather do anything else with their time. By being forced to read it they either need the intellectual or experiential wherewithal to find it compelling, or the right teacher to make it an enjoyable experience,…

But... why a potato? Was it shaped like Abraham Lincoln?

Yeah, the LASD, it oversees the largest jail system in the world, a previous sheriff is now doing three years for obstructing an FBI investigation into alleged abuses in those jails, the current sheriff has been compared to Trump in the press, and reports of deputy gangs within the ranks have been floating around for…

There’s a working paper out of Yale going around that looks at what would be the best framing for persuading voters to accept and adopt progressive policies, the takeaway being that starting from a race-based or identity politics framework for otherwise neutral progressive policies (that, if adopted, would still have…

Going from memory, buyers care less about race cars being crashed and rebuilt because they’re already rare enough and it’s understood that race cars as part of normal operation can crash and otherwise have significant components get switched out.

And by left her nothing meaning had a new will drawn up disinheriting her and claiming she abandoned him to limit her ability to take an elective share of the estate, which looks like it’s in the process of being contested.