I am seldom overtly political here, but I want to say a thing out loud.
A right to bodily autonomy isn't conditioned on being a rape or incest survivor. We must not create special circumstances when we recognize a woman's right to avail herself of family planning services or medical care.
It's her body. The decisions are hers, in consultation she takes with her doctor, and influenced, to the extent she elects, by her partner.
That's it.
Identical philosophy applies to trans folks.
A few days ago, few people across the country knew the names Justin Jones or Justin Pearson. Nor did we give the TN legislature a second thought.
Now both men are re-energized, to a new level, with national attention — and Tennessee’s many sins are now under scrutiny.
Nice job.
Whittier College made some of the most absolutely mind-blowingly bumptious defamation threats against a client that I’ve seen in my career. So I wrote about it.*
*nothing I do online is the fault of my firm or clients
https://popehat.substack.com/p/berating-the-bumptious-whittier-colleges
@Popehat At what point does a prosecutor have an ethical obligation to inform the defense that one of their witnesses is an informant? Was it okay for them to sit on that since December? Were they obligated to reveal it at all?
A lawyer for one of the former Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious conspiracy says federal prosecutors have revealed that a defense witness was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Defense attorney Carmen Hernandez on Wednesday asked a judge to schedule an emergency hearing so the defense can learn more about the prosecutors' use of the informant. The judge ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense filing by Thursday afternoon and scheduled a hearing for the same day, putting testimony in the case on hold until Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office did not immediately comment on the filing.