I think people debating about whether Holmes was lying or not are missing the point about you can see everything. It's really a much more interesting (and unsettling) film than the Holmes documentary costume it's wearing

A rare thoughtful article on the phenomenon of internet vigilantes hounding people on sex offense registries (and anyone else who happens to get caught in the crossfire) www.illinoistimes.com/news/vigilan...

Vigilante justice - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture

Jeff Bast, who goes by Millstone the Klown on social media, says he is protecting children. His online following has brought scrutiny to people on the sex offender registry – and fear and lost work to...

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after a long hiatus I have been discussing law with non lawyers on reddit and now I remember why I took a long hiatus from doing that

A reminder on Indigenous Peoples' Day: Native people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons at more than 4x the rate of white people. This is the direct result of centuries of oppression and theft from Native people.

It occurs to me that the tendency towards medicalizing executions is not for the benefit of the person being executed. It's for us -- to give it an appearance of being humane, even as it makes it far less so. It's so we don't have to be made uncomfortable by the sight of our own lust for blood.

much like how pants go from skinny to baggy and back again, we are in a constant cycle of learning and forgetting the importance of due process

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

I think two things can be true simultaneously: a patronage system for pardons is grotesque, and the traditional model of only granting handfuls of clemency requests in the safest political cases is *also* grotesque.

a lot of questions being asked about my "this military flyover is actually a memorial" shirt etc etc

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another way to commemorate 9/11 would be to not do any of this

Not for nothing, but I think it's pretty horrific that the state can just continue to re-roll juries until they get a conviction or an acquittal. Also, I have a big defense attorney crush on Kevin Reddington.

NEW: Report from @prisonpolicy.org documents the growth of conviction-based registries based on sex offense registries, and their presumed similar shortcomings in creating public safety www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/08...

When bad policies spread: The expansion of the “sex offense registry” model to other convictions

Shaming doesn't prevent crime.

prisonpolicy.org

She's kind of camo'd here

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Good news on voting rights from Missouri! @boltsmag.org boltsmag.org/gop-run-miss...

GOP-Run Missouri Becomes Latest State to Roll Back Felony Disenfranchisement - Bolts

A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy.

boltsmag.org

Despite this sort of thing being commonplace, this is (I believe) the first time I have heard of someone being criminally charged with harassing someone on the sex offense registry abc13.com/post/woman-c...

Woman charged with harassing sex offender and his family, sheriff's office says

A Baytown woman allegedly "harassed, tormented, and embarrassed" a registered sex offender and his family by posting about them "over and over" on social media sites, investigators said.

abc13.com

I think I realized today that, unfortunately, I like being a lawyer.

Now here is a grand juror doing the 5th Amendment proud www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

How about you Switch 2 reading the Holy Bible

I cannot stress enough that there is no language in the First Step Act that suggests Congress intended such a parsimonious reading of compassionate release; indeed, there is language that suggests the exact opposite. One major goal was to expand compassionate release. So why is SCOTUS shrinking it?

I read a whole article about Daniel Cameron and where'd his political career take a wrong turn and not one word about him sandbagging the grand jury in Breonna Taylor's case and lying about it to the press (which we only know about because the grand jurors lawyered up to talk about it). Weird.

"Tala-freako" is another exhibit supporting the "everyone is 12" theory

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "Tala-freako is a creep. He's a vegan. He thinks God is nonbinary. He wants to mutilate children."

I have a client I did a habeas for. I believe he was convicted of a crime it was not possible for him to have committed, and the government knew that because evidence they had (but did not introduce) proves it. He's autistic, with the social-emotional functioning of a young child.

I've been neglectful of my writing lately, so I wrote something about a recent argument, though not so much about the argument, more about the last few years, or twenty, however you want to look at it. open.substack.com/pub/littlere...

I wrote, I think, the best thing I’ve ever written yesterday. It just happened to be filed in federal court, and in support of a client and an issue I’d stick my neck out for. Also, I got to use “transmogrification” in a brief, which, believe it or not, was the right word to use.

I think the thing people miss when someone with resources gets acquitted or a conviction reversed is that it happens because the government cuts corners. It takes resources to find out where they cut them. Don’t be upset that someone found them, be upset that they were cut in the first place.

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

I ran into my old boss yesterday, and he told me he was very proud of me, and that a lot of people would have given up, but I didn’t. I reminded him that there were many times when I wanted to, but I had people who told me to get up and keep moving forward. Including, and especially, him.

New from me at the @brennancenter.org: Once again, Alito uses disingenuous reasoning and bad data to take an ax to the Voting Rights Act.

Finishing Off Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Declares Racism Over — Again

The Court’s conservative majority used outdated examples to say the racial gap in voter turnout has closed, but in reality, the gap is growing.

brennancenter.org