“Democrats could get a tiny majority in both chambers, ramrod a court expansion and a bunch of justices through long with all my other favorite legislation,”

Pacino ftw. Short Kings unite.

That’s actually a really good point re- the framers not having put in a set number of Justices, and thus having anticipated a fluctuating number of Justices. However, I’m not entirely persuaded that this was because of the potential for population growth, given that the Supreme Court hears every case en banc—in other…

It’s been the rule forever that you can oppose a peremptory challenge if you think it’s racially motivated (or some other impermissible basis for discrimination,) although I think it’s difficult to meet the standard for prevailing on that. It’s curious that the original defense team wouldn't have even tried.

I think that’s a good basis for speculating on how they would have intended the *House* to function, since the House was explicitly designed to be a majoritarian check on the counter-majoritarian Senate. However, neither the Court nor the individual justices appear to have been intended to be directly representative…

I have a handful of friends who have worked as prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys who have said that George Zimmerman was probably overcharged, in the sense that the State might have actually gotten a conviction for Murder 3 or some kind of manslaughter; there’s something about crim pro (or FL law) that…

“The family questioned why Penny, who choked Neely to death on a New York subway car last week, wasn’t charged with a homicide.”

“With all of this on the line, I couldn’t care less what George Washington would have thought of court expansion and other extremely basic reforms[.]”

In this case, because it smells good to a lot of people? I originally had gifted to me by my wife who said she’d smelled it on someone and went out of her way to ask what it was. I’d never smelled it before my wife gave it to me, but I liked it too. Whenever I wear it, I tend to get multiple people comment on how good…

Correct 

Kent has an extremely hot take, and here we are talking about him. Golf clap.

This is pretty bizarre. Droves of people pre-ordered a book without knowing what it’s called, what it’s about, who wrote it, or what it even looks like—and why? Because their fandom echo chambers [Charlie Day Meme]’d themselves into believing this was, in fact, a secret Taylor Swift memoir, based random, disparate…

Thank goodness—I can still name my future child Ghostface Killah, and people will only thinking I'm paying homage to man/myth/legend rather than ripping off a celebrity couple!

I was like 10 or 11 when the movie came out, and ended up watching it on HBO or something the following year—and I loved it; huge crush on Natalie Portman at the time (again, I would have been like 12.) This was a “watch it whenever it happens to be on”-type movie for me throughout my teens, and it frequently played…

I thought of using that as the extant logical endpoint of what I was saying, but I thought it could be hyperbolic or unproductive.

None of this is legal advice. In most states, worker’s comp will pay for any and all injuries (unless intentionally self-inflicted) that occur while on the job or on the premises. The thing is that (again, this true of at least some states, I can’t speak for all, and this isn’t legal advice,) businesses are immune…

The number of people I’ve seen on social media still caping for Lanez is staggering. He had a temper tantrum and shot an unarmed, defenseless woman who posed him no threat. 

Listen, I absolutely agree that the studio and producers need to be completely upfront and transparent about what the job entails, and there should be something like an exorbitant penalty built into actors’ contracts for the studio changing things after the ink’s dried—regardless of whether the performer ultimately…

“when in actual fact they are simply continuing to be prurient and maintaining the status quo”

“If you genuinely believe”