This is nothing, during that school’s production of Les Mis Jean Valjean ended up accidentally toiling in a prop chain gang for years. Don’t even get me started on what happened to the Fiddler on the Roof.

Counterpoint: after all the money Hillary has taken from Big Alien, why would she ever reveal their secrets? We need a candidate like Bernie Sanders, who only accepts donations from small alien donors. And I mean literally tiny donors, they’re microscopic but they’re all around us.

I’m honestly confused by what you mean. I said that I was wrong to bring up the “misunderstanding” angle, because it probably wasn’t relevant to this case. I explained my initial thinking, but also indicated that it was probably based on an an incomplete and inaccurate recollection of what happened. The only part of…

The statement that “trauma disrupts memory” is scientifically accurate. It is also loaded, as you say, but it shoots both ways. For example, defendants often use the fact that victims change their stories about rape, and alter details over the course of an investigation, to “prove” that the victim is lying. An…

You might be right that the computer crime legitimately applies. I read the transcripts (or parts of them) but a long time back, and I forget where I got the link. I don’t recall the online messaging being central to any pattern of “seduction” (and the argument could be made that online communications made only to…

I’m saying that he was acquitted of the felony sexual assault charge. The only rape charge he was convicted of was statutory, which means that he was not convicted of non-consensual sex (other than in the sense minors are assumed to be legally incapable of consent). That is, in my opinion, significantly different from…

I don’t honestly know enough about the specifics of this case to draw any general conclusions about the justice of the sentence. That being said, the convictions were somewhat strange. He was actually acquitted of the non-consensual sexual assault charge, but was (as I recall) convicted of statutory rape based on age…

Well, courts don’t generally grant “specific performance” in contracts involving personal services, meaning that if someone breaches the contract the other party can sue for money, but the court won’t order the breaching party to perform the original obligation. One of the major reasons for that is the 13th Amendment…

You’re right that it’s unlikely. Alito (I believe it was him) brought up the possibility that the executive branch could use its enforcement discretion to simply subsidize insurers (at more than 100% of the cost of coverage) to provide separate plans, but that use of discretion may be legally questionable. Still, the…

The Justices are suggesting that it could be created, not that it already exists. Sotomayor’s clarification was probably more for the record than to contradict her colleagues, who were speaking to the burden on employees in a hypothetical scenario where the government chose to accomplish its objective of coverage…

The government already pays the cost under the current system, it’s just that the coverage is provided through an employer plan (with segregated funding) rather than through a separate plan on the exchange.

The state would definitely be protected from a suit for monetary damages by sovereign immunity and the 11th Amendment. And this kind of discretionary, legislative policy function is not likely subject to waiver of sovereign immunity under a state tort claims act. So the chances of a successful wrongful death lawsuit…

Although that is what the article said, it is 100% not what the Justices said. They were stating, not that contraceptive-only coverage is currently available on the exchanges, but that it could be made available. Although it wouldn’t really be “insurance,” in the sense that it would cover a known cost and not a risk…

Also, the animal kingdom is exactly the wrong place to go for homophobic validation. Animals are extremely gay/bisexual; male dolphins bang each other in the blowholes pretty much all the time. And on the subject of bathrooms, well, opposite gender animals pee together all the time, and routinely lick each others’…

I think Romer v. Evans, which held that a state constitutional amendment banning local and state anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals lacked a rational basis and was rooted in impermissible animus, makes this law very questionable, constitutionally speaking. I also wonder how it will interact with Title IX…

No, it’s actually pretty great. I went there, and when they served tea I threw it into the toilet. So now I feel like I won the war all over again.

Whether or not Obama should withdraw the nomination (and Sanders only said that he would ask him to, not that he would have the right to demand it) for Bernie to mention the possibility of withdrawal is good politics, practically speaking. Right now, the Republicans may think they can have it both ways; they can hold…

Whether or not Obama should withdraw the nomination (and Sanders only said that he would ask him to, not that he would have the right to demand it) for Bernie to mention the possibility of withdrawal is just good politics, practically speaking. Right now, the Republicans may think they can have it both ways; they can…

On the other hand, Garland as a Supreme Court Justice may be very different from Garland as a D.C. Court of Appeals judge. His current job is to apply Supreme Court precedent, not to make it; “siding with” Citizens United is, from that perspective, a requirement. The thing is, every indication is that the man is given…

Yeah, Crawford happens to be one of the few Scalia cases I wholeheartedly support, and it wouldn’t do much to change the result here. Faretta, I get as a nod to the dignity and free will of the accused, but unlike a lot of other procedural rights it does basically nothing to enhance the fairness of trials (rather, it…