Kevin Drum's guest writer today is Debra Dickerson a former military officer and currently a no-holds-barred writer. Strong stuff.
Recent Bluessky Posts- They stole $10 million of public funds but because no one admits to being able to remember who did it, they'll get away with it. Really. Even this over-boggled brain boggles. Is there no paper trail when Florida spends $10 million? www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g... August 27, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yes he was much worse in other famous cases. August 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yes indeed Miami is a lizard wonderland. (And this story has a guide with photos.) Could it explain out politics? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e... August 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Actually Cardozo very frequently misstated precedent to make it look like what he was doing was less avulsive. That's why Posner loved him... August 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Common law has scope for judicial invention. So too equity, even federal, although like cases (however defined) demand like treatment. And I believe elected state court judges have some extra legitimacy for creativity more generally. None of which justifies what the Six are doing. August 25, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Don’t worry, just as extremist muslim men are outdoing the rest of the world in the “atrocity” department, so too their women:
“Chechen women were the perpetrators of the Moscow attacks. In the first incident, two Chechen females, one only 20-years-old, strapped explosive belts containing metal pieces around their waists and went to an outdoor rock concert. There, they detonated their deadly packages fifteen minutes apart at the concert entrance, killing 14 people and wounding 53. A second incident saw a 22-year-old ‘Black Widow’ attempt to enter a fashionable Moscow restaurant with a sports bag containing ball bearings and 400 grams of explosives.”