But the R. Kelly documentary was published, and the cases are clearly distinguishable if you consider that many of the R. Kelly tapes constitute material evidence of a number of felonies
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lol, my first thought reading the first two sentences of this comment was “Okay, but when has Washington had any player worth having on your fantasy team?”
ETA: You ask near the end of your post what the threat was to free and open debate. Well, I think it should be obvious, but in case it’s not, I just remembered that the writer who had the R. Kelly bombshell almost couldn’t get it published because of the Hogan case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-r…
The Metro Police did not decide to stop ticketing people for eating in response to Tynes’s idiotic tweet. They had already made that decision in the days before she tweeted. And like I said, I rode Metro trains nearly every workday for 7 years (and also buses for 3 or 4 of those years), and never saw a single person…
“It would be good for you to sign this and then we can get you, get your statement and then we can leave you alone,” she tells Walker.
a show of incredible mental acuity that doctors found both surprising and “unbelievable.”
which is something passengers got regularly yelled at and even ticketed for doing.
Whether Gawker broke the law is questionable—they had a pretty good argument that what they did was protected speech, but never got the opportunity to exhaust the appeals process that would have settled the question. And illegal or not, it absolutely is a free speech question, because they were shut down for their…
Gawker arguably did something illegal. If you look at the facts of the case and the law as it stands, Gawker actually had a pretty good argument on a couple of fronts. First, that the posting of the video, as sleazy as it was, was actually protected speech. You can tell because Hogan’s, I mean, Bollea’s argument was…
That woman didn’t just “report” the transit worker, she took a picture and tried to publicly shame them for a minor violation of a rule that is routinely violated (it would be the equivalent of reporting a mail truck for going 12 mph over the speed limit). She became a victim of the very thing she tried to weaponize…
What exactly is your point here? Rich’s description of what happened with Gawker is accurate—I don’t think he’s saying “Gawker would have won the case if only the aggrieved party had been destitute and more powerless,” but Gawker would still exist (notwithstanding they did something arguably actionable) if a…
That letter was annoying.
Another in a longstanding line of cases in which the Christian right has successfully argued that people should not be subject to the lawfully enacted general rules of secular society if they claim any religious objection to them whatsoever. The extraordinary argument being advanced by the Christian right here was…
Sure, if the result was a death, she could be charged with murder.
Trump probably knows that George Washington was the first president, that Lincoln “freed the slaves” and was a Republican, and that Columbus “discovered America.” He might be able to tell you that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Beyond those surface level, kindergarten curriculum facts, I am…
I remember when Yeezus came out and Grantland did a thing where they reviewed each individual track on the album. Like, an actual review of each song on the album. I went to see him and concert that year, and still remember how much everyone in the audience was looking forward to his trademark rant, and then hanging…
and that he probably won’t win any more African American support because of it.
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They thought their like-minded friends were going to laugh at it and pat them on the back and tell them how smart and clever they are and then they were going to go back to living their lives with no consequences whatsoever. Because that is what has happened their entire lives when they do shit like this. I’m always…