I was about to give a link to the Washington Post sunday roundup to demonstrate that anyone can understand it (but I won't because I don't want to get into a debate.)

If you read too much opinion, you'll get confused.

If you follow 10 lawyers who offer their "hot takes" you'll get confused because lawyers in real life don't do hot takes.

They do a lot of research and thinking before they appear before a judge.

Looking closely at a single court filing doesn't help you understand the case.

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Here is what why: Suppose you have never seen an elephant and someone shows you an elephant's ear. Then you try to imagine what the entire elephant looks like. You'll get entirely the wrong idea.

They give you parts that they want to talk about.

While I was writing this week's blog post, I scrolled through the social media feeds of a lot of legal pundits (I stuck with the ones who appear on TV or have hundreds of thousands of followers.)

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Once in a while I saw facts, but mostly I saw opinion, spin, and predictions.

The facts are not hard to undrestand. These are the cases going on. These are the charges. We are in the stage of pre-trial motions. After all of the pretrial motions are resolved, there will be a trial.

The problem is that the facts cannot fill hours of programming or keep you glued to your screen.

You can read each motion, but that isn't predictive of what a court will do.

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