Simple Justice

Santa Clara Judge Kelly Paul says it’s a conflict of interest for District Attorney Jeff Rosen to prosecute five pro-Palestinian Stanford students following a mistrial, and

Despite Eugene Volokh’s almost daily post about lawyers (and occasional judges) shamed for using AI to perform their work, producing hallucinated citations, phony quotes and generally mediocre content, it has nonetheless managed to finds its ...

The confluence of a few unfortunate circumstances resulted in the Virginia Supreme Court holding that the state constitutional amendment to allow the redistricting plan as a counterbalance to other states’ legislative redistricting plans to eliminate congressiona...

Prefatory Note: My son is eleven. He is awesome in ways that would fill up this post describing. He’s also the reason I carry a notebook around as he’s prone to spouting off some very…interesting…statements. Enjoy a few—CLS

ON STAR WARS
“I feel like if Darth Vader held up a sign that said ‘Come to the Dark Side: We Have Free Cake and Pie,’ it would get him...

As a general concept, historic preservation is a good thing. After all, once an historic structure is gone, it’s gone forever, and so is the history it embodies. For reasons both aesthetic and, as expressed by George Santayana, practical, remembering history matters. That said, it can also be subject to dumb abuse and be used to unfairly damage unwitting homeowners who are tr...