Prefatory note: I received another batch of emails from my source “StickWeeks” on a private Discord server. Since I’ve had a strong suspicion Sheriff Roy or someone in his office has been tailing me this week, I’m releasing these emails to the SJ readership. SHG: If you don’t hear from me this week, release the copy of the restraining order I sent you.—CLS August 31, 2019 FROM: Templeton, Roy (sheriff@mlal.state.al) TO: ALL DEPARTMENTS…

It took the jury all of 26 minutes to return its verdict. Not guilty. A six-person jury found Jonathan Vanderhagen not guilty Thursday following a three-day trial in 41B District Court on a charge of malicious use of a telecommunications device for several Facebook posts last July regarding family Judge Rachel Rancilio of Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. Vanderhagen was held on half a million dollars bail for one count of the misdemeanor…

The Niskanen Center used to be a libertarian think tank, until it decided manifest destiny applied. With that, the very smart Will Wilkinson took to the papers to argue against “assault weapons.” Fair enough, and there is no doubt that the matter of gun control is a huge issue in the country. Wilkinson is hardly the only smart guy who has taken the position that semiautomatic guns are a blight on America, a weapon that…

It wasn’t remotely surprising that right out of the box, someone like Michelle Dauber would find some way to spin it. The legal profession does not care about sexual assault and lawyers will protect each other and the profession pretty much no matter what. The problem was that she was constrained to attack an unattackable voice, the Notorious RBG. Obviously, it couldn’t be that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a rape apologist or misogynist,…

A comment by Skink the other day reminded me of a guest post that never happened. Out of the blue, I heard from a lawprof friend who sought to push me to write more about what was happening internally within the New York Legal Aid Society. I was sent a bunch of internal emails which were graphic and appalling.* I replied that I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t do it. If there were problems at…