Sitemap - 2021 - Dilan’s Newsletter

Don't Even Fantasize About Splitting Up the United States

You Can't Both Be For Universal Health Care And Against Treating Unvaccinated People

An Update on En Banc Review

En Banc Review Needs To Be Curtailed

There Are Almost No One-Offs in the Legal System

Prosecuting Parents Enables Systemic Racism

Democracy Requires Debate

Liberals Are Never Going To Stop the Media Obsession With Crime, But They Can Play the Game Better.

A Defense of NFIB v. Sibelius

We Need New Rules on Police Testimony

The Temptations of the Journalistic Outlier

Activists Step On It On the "Cotton Ceiling"

What If We Took Internet Toxicity Seriously?

The False Idol of Jury Nullifcation

Being Nice To People Is an Underrated Tactic

In Defense of Journalistic Objectivity

The Intersectionality Nobody Likes To Talk About

What Do You Do About Anachronistic Constitutional Provisions?

The Lesson of Sister Souljah

Jurisdiction Stripping Doesn't Work

Everyone's a Lawyer on Twitter

Parole is a Good Idea. We Need More of It.

Not Everything You Don't Like Is Unconstitutional

We Need To Get Rid of the Constitutional Provision That Allows State Legislatures To Reverse Presidential Elections

Careerism Is Destructive of Public Discourse

Slate Exposes a Huge Pitfall of Modern Journalism

The Supreme Court Runs Up People's Legal Bills

Nationwide Injunctions Are a Problem

A Modest Fourth Amendment Proposal

The Korean War Was a Special Case

The Withrdawal from Afghanistan Is a Triumph of American Democracy

"They Couldn't Make That Movie Now"

Actually Consistently Believing in Science is Tough

Everything Is International

A quick response to Mark Joseph Stern

The End of the Eviction Moratorium Is Not the Supreme Court's Fault

The Cost of Cynical Olympics Marketing

Most People Don't Want To Die for "Freedom"

Not Every Situation Is a Vehicle for Personal Expression

Exemptions from Generally Applicable Laws Should Be Hard to Get

People Don't Know as Much as They Think They Do

Liberal American Exceptionalism

The Party Message Machines, Not the Media, Control Political Discourse

What Joe Paterno's Story Tells Us About the Founders

Not Everything Is About Race

Empty Federal Death Row

Matt Yglesias Says the Quiet Part Loud

The SCOTUS Practice Cartel

Symbolic disbarments

Conservative Sports Fans Don't Hate Athletes

The Modern Joe McCarthy Mindset

Democrats Need To Embrace Sex And Drugs

Bring Back CNN's "Crossfire"

Why Are There No Female MLB Umpires?

Negotiating in Public Doesn't Work

Unequivocal Condemnation Is Underrated

Fixing Habeas Corpus

The Media Is Going To Talk To People You Don't Agree With

Nikole Hannah-Jones Was Right

About Those Cuomos

Lawyers Don't Have Magical Powers

Congressional Hostage-Taking

What the Kentucky Derby Scandal Tells Us About Systemic Racism

Stop Telling Justice Breyer To Retire

Most Prison Sentences Are Way Too Long

Pretrial Detention Is Terrible

The Myth of the Untainted Juror

Language Doesn't Matter Nearly As Much As People Think It Does

The Religious Freedom To Discriminate

Do Schools Have Lawyers?

Media Criticism Is a Racket

Selective Standpoint Epistemology

"How a Bill Becomes a Law" Has Changed

The Supreme Court Isn't Actually All That Conservative

For DC Statehood- But For a Compromise Too

What Can the Legal System Do About Police Violence?

The Federal Arbitration Act Needs an Overhaul

Free Speech Is More Important Than Whataboutism

Losing a War Means Not Being Able To Control What Happens Next

Legal Interpretation Is Hard, and Originalism Doesn't Work

OJ Ruined Cable News

Police Discretion in Traffic Stops in Unavoidable

The Legal System Is Too Expensive for Middle Class People

Congress Should Allow US Courts to Hear International Human Rights Claims

Legal Journalism Is Abysmal

Boycotting the Olympics Would Be Terrible

No, Conservatives Are Not Going to Rule the Constitution Prohibits Abortion

People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem

Facts Matter

Criminal Defense Lawyers Are Just Doing Their Jobs

A Discourse Rule That Applies Only to Criticism of China

Competitors Whose Sports Generate Significant Revenue Should Be Paid

Hiring a Lawyer Isn't Engaging in "Violence"

It's Not Biden's Fault We Don't Have a Coherent Immigration Policy

You Win Civil Rights Struggles By Making Good Arguments That Appeal to People's Morals

Educators Should Be Able To Teach Stuff You Disagree With

We Can't Control Guns. But We Might Control Gun Culture

We Don't Need To Execute the Mass Shooters

We All Read Death of a Salesman, Didn't We?

You Should Be Able To Sue Federal Officers Who Violate the Constitution

Be a Better News Consumer

The Legal System Is Much Bigger Than a Few High Profile Political Cases

We Need To Pass the Equality Act

Nonbinary People Are Not a Historically Oppressed Group

It's Hard for One Party To Control the Judiciary

Mostly law, some culture, a little bit of potpurri