Make No Law is a just-launched podcast hosted by Ken "Popehat" White (previously), a former Federal prosecutor who writes some of the best, most incisive legal commentary on the web; the first episode deals with the oft-cited, badly misunderstood "fighting words" doctrine and its weird history in the religious prosecution of Jehovah's Witnesses (my sole complaint is that he didn't work in E. — Read the rest

It's been seven years since I started following Ken "Popehat" White's relentless pursuit of a con artist who sent his company a fake invoice.

The latest stupidospheric controversy in Donald Trump's America is Donald Jr's hard-to-parse claims of attorney-client privilege; Junior told Congress to go fuck themselves when they asked him to testify under oath about a meeting he had with his father about Russian interference in the 2016 elections, saying he didn't have to answer them because his lawyer was present and thus the conversation was privileged.

This morning, Twitter covered Ken "Popehat" White's profile page in balloons to celebrate his birthday. This afternoon, it suspended his account for posting screenshots of threats he'd received from another user.

The ranting missive, from a far-right lawyer in Texas whose threatening Twitter postings White had earlier mocked, promises such hatred and cruelty that White will want to kill himself or flee to "escape my wrath." — Read the rest

More than four years ago, I blogged about how former federal prosecutor Ken White had tracked down a con-artist who sent a fake invoice to his firm. Now, finally, the scammer has been indicted.

Just because you're a Type A, "fully invested in the classic American self-image of independence and grit," don't think you couldn't use some help.

Former federal prosecutor, free speech advocate and generally smart dude Ken "Popehat" White has posted "ten short rants" about #Gamergate, which, surprisingly, contain nuance and gloss I haven't yet encountered in the verbiage devoted to the subject elsewhere.

Elon Musk threatened to sue Media Matters yesterday over its article about brand advertising running against Nazi material on the site. In his threat, Musk admitted exactly what the site had been accused of, a fact Media Matters wasted no time pointing out in its response. — Read the rest

Neo-Nazis have the First Amendment right to spew their hate, but not to spew leaflets onto people's lawns. Jon Minadeo II, founder of the "Goyim Defense League," is off to jail for 30 days on a littering charge. Here's video of him being cuffed and taken to the clink after the conviction. — Read the rest

New York City newspapers reported this weekend that Rudy Giuliani was attacked while campaigning for his son, a candidate for governor of New York. And a man was indeed arrested and charged with assaulting him. Giuliani claims he was struck so hard it felt like being shot. — Read the rest

Pictured above is the homepage of the New York Times today, as captured by Tim Dickinson. You simply wouldn't know from looking at the headlines that women are about to be stripped of their constitutional right to an abortion by the U.S. — Read the rest

"Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets."

On the third day of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the judge dismissed a juror who joked with a courtroom deputy about why Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, the incident that prompted the civil unrest during which Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two of them.

Mike Lindell talks and talks and talks. Mostly, he just says things, like the kid who falsely tells you his dad is an astronaut and feels he's already in too deep so he keeps trying to make it believable. "Yeah, I was born in Houston. — Read the rest

McGruff the Crime Dog was created in 1980 to fight crime by appealing to children, but he's been adopted by Means TV and is now providing the standard ACLU-approved advice on dealing with police who want you to talk to them: don't without a lawyer. — Read the rest

In the annals of social media goatfucking, few have pounded it quite as hard as whoever is currently at the helm of Burger King's UK twitter account. After posting "Women belong in the kitchen" they are now tweeting through it, desperately reiterating missing context and insisting that the glib missive was part of an ironic call for empowerment. — Read the rest

Only 8 million people need to die to ensure that decabillionares don't become mere billionaires.

One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is an economic policy.https://t.co/QuP4iNSEbD

— TrillionDollarCoinHat (@Popehat) March 23, 2020

Three Indiana judges got in a fight. Two were injured, all were suspended. NPR's Laurel Wamsley reports "an incident brimming with colorful details."

The altercation apparently started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV, and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges.

Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, and just how (shamefully) normal it is for prisoners to die in custody due to indifference, overwork, malfeasance and sadism on the part of prison authorities.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft today got a court date stemming from multiple prostitution charges.

The judge imposed a limited gag order on Roger Stone last week.