Please God, no. Why can't we just have a boring bureaucrat?

True.

I'd like to think that's the kind of hug someone gives where they loathe the huggee and everything they represent and that something inside of them is telling them that this is wrong and they need to fight back. But I'm pretty sure Rubio is just an awkward little shit with no principles.

Promissory Estoppel! Quantum Meruit!

It is on the bar exam

"We do not intend to release the tape…until compelled to in discovery."

He's just method acting as a needlessly pedantic/lying asshole who hates the media to prepare for his inevitable portrayal of Ted Cruz in a biopic no one asked for.

It's funny how online conservatives appear to be accusing the Democrats of McCarthyism for the Russia investigation, when all the most prominent individuals involved in the investigation are Republicans.

Here's an easy cost effective way to give everyone what they want. Just randomly assign various characters in every show different political affiliations and put an "R" or a "D" after their name in credits.

Ah ha ha! Ah ha ha ha ha!

You can also narrowly tailor what actual conduct is prohibited: like contacting minors, as opposed to drafting an overbroad law that completely restricts access to the primary means of communication of the era.

One thing that makes plantations a weird subject for romanticization, is how banal they are compared to other human endeavors that used forced labor and are products of shocking brutality. The Pyramids, the Great Wall, the Roman Colosseum, etc., were the products of slave societies, yet their brutal origins is…

That's partially because the law used to basically require that for a long time. At common law, rape was forcible sexual intercourse (specifically penis-vagina) by a man with a woman who was not his spouse. Ejaculation was required well into the 19th century. The prosecution was required to show the offender used…

That used to be the common law standard: "utmost resistance was required."

Judge 724: Order, order! Counselor, I am a robot myself. Are you suggesting that any verdict I reach is simply the output of a pre-programmed - Computation complete. Not guilty!

Hit or miss, but mostly harmless.

Rom com leads go to trial for stalking/menacing.

Never read it, but it's on my maybe someday get around to it list to see what the fuss is about. As a general matter, I'm not a fan of book destroying. Sure it's a mass market paperback. But one day it might lose its popularity and stop being printed. The ones left will slowly disintegrate into the dusts of time and…

The popular reaction to this is going to be very telling about how society has progressed on these issues in the last few years since this is so high profile. If there's less popular defense of the rapist by refocusing the attention on the victim's promiscuity in this case, that at least might be an encouraging sign…

While it helps, it still might be tricky depending on the angles and if she appears lucid as opposed to blackout. While lucidity obviously doesn't negate the fact she couldn't consent at that level of intoxication, it gives him room to argue she impliedly consented by conduct. So it'll still be some he said/she said…