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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Professionals Behaving Badly
The Drone Memo’s Hack Author Should Be In Prison. Instead, He’ll Be a Judge. Conservatives say, and this is one of their more successful memes, that poor people are immoral. The proles have sex and...
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Archival War
FDR asked Congress for a formal Declaration of War against Germany and Japan. Subsequent presidents asked Congress for various forms of legal justifications to attack other nation-states. Now Obama is...
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Beyond the “Law”
After Apple announced that it would be hard for the NSA to hack into the new iPhone 6, angry government officials fumed that people who buy it would be trying to put themselves “outside the law.” Say...
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Breaking Modern Essay: How One Speeding Ticket Can Ruin Your Life
This essay originally appeared at BreakingModern.com: There once was a time during the 1980s when you could find a parking ticket on your windshield, crumple it up and drive off as if it had never...
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Down by Law
They always say America is a litigious society. But when you find you need a lawyer to help clear your name, it isn’t always that easy to find the right lawyer to fight for your case.
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Corporations Are Abusing anti-SLAPP Laws to Screw Over...
“It’s a sadly familiar sight in courthouses around the country: A deep-pocketed corporation, developer or government official files a lawsuit whose real purpose is to silence a critic, punish a...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Sue the SOBs? It’s Harder Than You Think
Are you one of those Americans who say it’s too easy to file a lawsuit? As I can tell you from personal experience, it’s anything but. The canard that U.S. courts are jammed up by litigious jerks is...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: How I Found Out That the Courts Are Off-Limits to the 99%
I’m suing the Los Angeles Times. I’m the plaintiff. I’m the one who was wronged. The Times should be defending themselves from my accusations that they fired and libeled me as a favor to a...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: What Happened When I Represented Myself as My Own Lawyer
For a cartoonist, I turned out to be a fairly decent lawyer. But I didn’t want to represent myself. It took two vicious lawyers to force me into that position. One of those lawyers was mine. I’m suing...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Man is Above the Law — Except on College Campuses
Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, Fall 1981: Now as then, there were speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcomed us, explained campus resources and laid...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Here’s the Constitutional Amendment We Need But Never...
Amendment XXVIII: No law governing a basic human need shall be passed in a jurisdiction whose government fails to provide citizens with the means to fulfill that need. Start gathering petition...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: By Law the President Should Have to Give Daily Press...
News conferences are a double oxymoron. Pressers aren’t conferences; conferences involve back-and-forth communication. Nor do they have anything to do with news. News is neither created nor conveyed...
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Hacking Dirty Government Secrets Is Not a Crime
British goon cops acting at the request of the United States government entered Ecuador’s embassy in London, dragged out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and prepared to ship him across the pond....
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Billionaires and Corporations Love anti-SLAPP Laws. Why Does John Oliver?
Why does this multibillionaire need a cartoonist’s money? John Oliver recently dedicated his HBO show to why we need a federal anti-SLAPP law. Like most of his stuff, the episode was witty...
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If There’s a Warrant for Your Arrest, the Government Should Have to Tell You
There ought to be a law. I read about Eric Barrier, half of the classic rap duo Eric B. and Rakim, and how he recently wound up in jail. The story is interesting not because...
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Adult Crime, Childish Thinking Time
Once again a child has been subjected to the legal absurdity of being charged as an adult. This time the target is Ethan Cumbley, suspect in a mass school shooting in Michigan. If you can pretend that...
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Clean Our Mess: Release Guantánamo Detainees in the U.S., Close the Camp
Parents teach their children: you make a mess, you clean it up. Twenty years ago, the United States government transformed its naval base at Guantánamo Bay into a legal, moral...
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Make Text Messages Private
Nearly a decade ago, the Edward Snowden revelations prompted a national debate about data security. Polls show that a growing number of Americans take data-security precautions like...
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Supreme Court to Progressives: Wake Up
The Supreme Court just sent us a wake-up call. Pro-reality Americans, i.e. the 40% of voters to the left of the Democratic Party, should be grateful. A freedom essential to...
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