👤 Ken White

2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report · Crime & Law

Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It

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2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report · Politics

Speech or Cancel Culture At Boston University?

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2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report · Politics

Jack Smith, Donald Trump, and the Kobayashi Maru

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2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report · Politics

That's Not How Recusal Works, That's Not How Any Of This Works!

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2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report · Politics

Supreme Court Clarifies "True Threats" First Amendment Exception

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2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report · Politics

Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War

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2026-08-24 · The Popehat Report

🔮 The first time I sent an email from there, in a few minutes, it might go to your spam, so you may want to check that. assertive

2026-08-24 · The Popehat Report

🔮 It’s not rocket science, but a lawyer who doesn’t know the law will fail in flamboyant, expensive, and humiliating ways. assertive

2026-08-24 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Were it not so, what would I have to gripe about?1 assertive

2026-08-24 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Substack may attract more Nazis than average because Substack has a “okay you don’t agree with me now but what if I wrote another 8,000 words about it” vibe. assertive

2026-08-24 · The Popehat Report

🔮 This post may be less solicitous of your feelings than you may hope. assertive

2026-08-25 · The Popehat Report

🔮 “It sure would be helpful,” I sometimes proclaim, “to have a clinical child psychologist to deal with this situation.” assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 So how can brutal speech like “racist” and “antisemite” and “lunatic” and “disconcertingly puffy serial divorcee” and “I think I will chose to advertise elsewhere” not be censorship? assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Last Friday night Musk announced that X would sue Media Matters “the split second court opens on Monday.” assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — notoriously fearless, particularly of cameras — is prosecuting them on a 41-count trek through Georgia criminal law. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 The media is also understandably loath to invade the privacy of the deceased or their loved ones, or jump to conclusions about a death in a way that could simply stigmatize suicide further. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 One is to describe, to the best of your ability, what you believe the state of the law is, how and where courts might agree or disagree with you, and how your view of what the law should be differs from how courts currently interpret it. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 In the old days, the resulting sentencing range was mandatory and bound the court; in 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that the Guidelines could only be treated as a recommendation, not a mandate. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Assuming, as we have, for it has not been challenged, that this statistical side of the Department of Agriculture is the exercise of a function within the purview of the Constitution, it must follow that any conspiracy which is calculated to obstruct or impair its efficiency and destroy the value of its operations and reports as fair, impartial, and reasonably accurate would be to defraud the United States by depriving it of its lawful right and duty of promulgating or diffusing the information so officially acquired in the way and at the time required by law or departmental regulation. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 Glenn is agitated because the United States decided to drop a charge of conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations it had previously brought against infamous manchild Sam Bankman-Fried, the answer to the question “how bad could it be, being raised by two Stanford professors?” assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 They couldn’t report many verbatim quotes (they should have brought someone who takes shorthand) and federal courts don’t allow broadcast or media recoding of proceedings. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Popehat Report

🔮 For more than half a century, courts have used a (purportedly) objective standard to determine whether a threat is true, asking whether a reasonable person, familiar with the context, would interpret the threat as a sincere expression of intent to do harm. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report

🔮 It begins with a broad, rather vague pronouncement: (a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.1 We’ll get back to that. mixed

2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report

🔮 I pointed out that the somewhat predictable assignment of the case to Judge Aileen Cannon — who proved herself to be an arguably lawless Trump partisan when she entertained his attempts to derail his own investigation — will make it extraordinarily difficult to convict him. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report

🔮 With impeccable timing that only a university administration could achieve, BU announced Zaslav as its commencement speaker the day after the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Popehat Report

🔮 I think it comes down to this: being beaten by the police doesn’t make you either a good person or a bad person, but some people would like to believe that it does. assertive