I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/

Just a reminder that two prominent Federalist Society members wanted to overthrow the government by fraud and then have the government murder you if you objected.

Eat that with your fuckin’ Chick-fil-A sack lunch.

The Supreme Court has clarified the subjective component of the "true threats" test, making the First Amendment's exception for true threats a bit clearer

https://popehat.substack.com/p/supreme-court-clarifies-true-threats

Sorry to hear of the passing of U.S. District Court Judge Ronald S.W. Lew. I had the privilege of externing for him back in ‘92. A fine man. He was also responsible for a memorable experience I’ve written about.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-fourth-of-july

How do we decide what a "true threat" is when we have no cultural consensus on what a "reasonable person" is?

https://popehat.substack.com/p/true-threats-and-american-cultural