Kavanaugh may be plenty intelligent; being a misogynist or rapist, having a shitty moral compass, or otherwise being a bad person is not dispositive of being smart. In an organization full of ideological ‘yes men/women’, it’s not enough to simply tow the part line. Hating women and racial minorities, desiring a white…

Welcome to the inevitable backlash of deifying Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This surprises a lot of people, but there’s a measured, medium place between stanning for RBG as if she can do no wrong, and shitting all over her for having been friends with Scalia/saying Kavenaugh is okay/being an old white woman.

I think the problem is that many voters that look like you do realize that, and are voting in a manner calculated to keep things as they are.

Amen. And ironically the “disenfranchised angry white bigot voters" aren't even all that disenfranchised. I've never heard of a group with so much power feeling so oppressed.

I don’t know what being “low” on Booker even means when his numbers are so dismal: not polling better than 2 points in any of the major polls, putting him in 7th or 8th place at best. Based on the numbers we have today, which basically what we have to go on, Booker is shitting the bed.

If she can get the “Taco Bell at 1:00am” set to actually come out and vote, more power to her!

Kamala Harris is the only black candidate with ever a shadow of a hope of getting the nomination. The Root bills itself as a site about “[b]lack News, Opinions, Politics and Culture.” Is it really surprising that they prefer a black candidate—and what’s more, is that so bad?

The Federal government can only legalize things pursuant to Federal law. Individual states retain police power within their own borders.

“While some still-salty Little Mermaid fans were probably hoping that Matthew McConaughey or Leonardo DiCaprio would land the role[.]”

Can the City just fire Pantaleo? If there’s a police union, I’m assuming there’s a labor contract, and if there’s a labor contract, I have to believe that it stipulates that an officer cannot be fired without cause—and that only particular things constitute cause (which likely require a particular disciplinary…

What did Gawker do that Jez and The Root don’t have covered?

I agree that it would take an incredibly forward-thinking or progressive jury to find for her here. I think the average American’s social politics are probably changing in the correct direction, albeit slowly, but I doubt we’re yet at a place where your typical juror is so woke that they’d find all the elements of…

There is literally no circumstance under which it is ever acceptable or commendable that anyone should be sexually assaulted for any reason. The death penalty is also unconscionable, but at least I can think of circumstances under which it would be necessary to take someone’s life (e.g., hostage situations in which a…

I’m more concerned with a criminal justice system that won’t take more seriously the fact that this guy is a powder keg.

The problem with comparing Incognito to Kaepernick is, first, that Incognito’s poor behavior is not itself political (even if the disparities between how each man has been treated are deeply political), whereas Kaepernick has basically put white supremacy on blast, which is clearly triggering of a lot of the NFL’s…

I’m curious to see what happens when people start combing over the old case file—I don’t find it entirely unrealistic that their case, as good as may play in the media today, may have been rife with non-proveable allegations based on inadmissible, or just very shaky evidence. Certainly the terms of Epstein’s sentence…

Well, I find it unlikely that they’d even file an MSJ without doing discovery first, and I think it’s practically a foregone conclusion that she’ll survive an MTD since New York is (if I recall correctly) a notice pleading state. Having said that, I’m willing to bet Epstein’s attorneys have already made an offer.

I hope she wins her suit, and a hefty sum at that. The defense is going to absolutely tear her apart if she can’t produce some evidence to corroborate her testimony. 

You might be familiar with the folksier “played me like a cum-stained fiddle.”

I hope they get themselves the most brutal, blood thirsty plaintiffs’ attorney in the state and go scorched Earth on these motherfucker. If this were negligence alone, this would already be jackpot of sorts—but if they can prove there was a cover-up... ohhhh buddy, those punitive damages could be staggering.