Please, watch the language, there are ladies present.

/s (just in case it wasn’t obvious)

If it helps, you are just criticizing her idea that the shirt was a good thing to wear on television.

It was a very bad idea and deserves criticism.

Gladiators!

Flame was a former student of my Mom (or her sister was, or both, I don’t recall exactly) and gave us a Gladiators poster that I put up in our garage. I remember being super excited to see somebody I knew on TV and was really disappointed she wasn’t on American Gladiators and my parents having to explain to…

All of which is to say... there is a reason I dropped out law school. Shit gets more absurd than I was willing to deal with.

The probable cause portion suggests a standard where the cops own thoughts don’t actually matter that much (so long as part 4 is around) and it matters more if a reasonable police officer would have believed themselves or others to be in danger. So the prosecutor can prove what the situation actually was, then the…

The actual text of the law (rather than Michael’s paraphrase) requires that the cop have “probable cause” to believe they or others are in danger So the prosecutor only has to prove that there wasn’t a good reason to believe there was danger, no matter what the cop believed.

Apologies for that opening sentence being snottier and more personal than I intended it to be. I tried editing but was outside the Kinja window.

[Edit: this sentence was more personal and snarky than I intended] Saying this guy shouldn’t win is trying to make the case different because it is about guns, not upholding anti-discrimination law.

It actually wouldn’t have anything to do with gun control laws, this is a discrimination in public accommodations case. The legal question would be: Is the State of Oregon allowed to enforce an anti-discrimination law which is more broadly protective than the federal standard or the standards in other states? I don’t…

Medford/Grants Pass would have been my first guess (or anywhere in ‘State of Jefferson” territory), but I wouldn’t have slept on Coos Bay.

As the child of an old small-town sportscaster and DJ, about the only thing I love more than his politics is his voice. It is an absolutely beautiful thing that modern sports radio/tv just doesn’t do anymore.

My Dad, by his own admission, never quite got the hang of it, but loves it too.

I remember hearing it occasionally at the extremely white, liberal law school I managed failed out of after 5 years (me not being a lawyer is an undeniable victory for the legal profession).

I was usually in reference to common law + related traditions like adversarial trials and juries, but even thing I think I heard…

Oh, don’t worry, I have no doubt that the Klansmuppet meant it in the most racist way possibly. Especially when there is a perfectly good term (that he probably is aware of) that doesn’t exclude places like (for example) India or South Africa which have the same tradition.

Sessions gets no benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, that’s what I got from, but I also got used to hearing that term in law school when talking about legal traditions that were the same in both countries.

Though, given that sheriff’s exist in Canada, Australia, and pretty much everywhere the British had colonies, “Anglophonic tradition” is probably more accurate.

Bu…

If there is burning, you should probably see a doctor.

Probably about as many as there are in Olympia, where this actually happened, which is 60 miles from Seattle and not considered part of the Seattle metro area.

This probably isn’t your fault because the article seems to get them confused too, but it seems like a crucial detail, given the different histories and…

tl;dr version: Are you really sure you want a legal standard that *requires* you to give others the use of your body?

For the sake of argument, let’s assume you are right and a fetus is a person (a notion I happen to dispute, but fetal personhood isn’t actually as central to your argument as you probably think it is).

Th…

Which is not to say the refs didn’t fuck up in any number of other ways over the course of the game, this was actually one they managed not to shit the bed on.

Since it was a scoring play, it was reviewed and it was determined he was at least partially behind the line.