The New Rape Mantra: Believe Hamas
As the cultural landscape in America shifted from “no means no” to affirmative consent, wreaking havoc as it was untethered from any viable definition and was saddled with a litany of excuses making it nearly impossible to defend, whether true or false, the mantra embraced by the woke was “believe women.” As Brett Stephens shows, […]
Tuesday Talk*: Judicial Restraint | Simple Justice
Colorado lost as a unanimous Supreme Court held that a state cannot disqualify a candidate for president on its own. How did a unanimous, per curiam, opinion, as concurrer Justice Amy Coney Barrett, turn up the heat? The majority didn’t stop at deciding what Colorado could not do, but went a few steps beyond by […]
Plea Deal Ensures Former Viking Griffen Avoids DUI Conviction
Former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen struck a plea deal last week that allowed him to avoid a drunken-driving conviction stemming from an incident last July in Chanhassen. Griffen, who is fifth all-time in career sacks for the Vikings, ended up agreeing to a deal where he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless driving. As […]
Parole Remains Unfixed | Simple Justice
The heady days of George Floyd protests and progressive prosecutors brought a number of “reforms,” most of which have proven, as expected, to be simplistic, misguided and unsustainable. It wasn’t enough to be filled with passion, but to also think long and hard about what would work and what was based on shallow fantasies. Granted, […]
Man Accused of Murder Found Deceased
Police say 36-year-old Mark Michael Ford is believed to have killed two individuals a week apart in February. The first incident is believed to have occurred on February 20th, a Tuesday. Investigators say they discovered the unresponsive female deceased at the 11000 block of Andorra Street after succumbing to gunshot wounds. The victim was later […]
Oral Argument Time, By Identity
To be fair, few motions are won at oral argument, though more are lost by a poor argument or an inadvertent admission. The serious argument is set forth in the motions themselves, the accompanying memorandum and affirmations. Face time before the court is fun, and may well turn out to be significant if the judge […]
The Flattening | Simple Justice
In a series of posts, Radley Balko sought to debunk what he calls the “retconning” of George Floyd stemming from a documentary that questioned whether he was murdered by Derek Chauvin with the support or involvement of people like John McWhorter, Glenn Loury, Bari Weiss and Coleman Hughes, among others. By “retconning,” Radley refers to […]