Hey, same-sex marriage opponents, I have a question for you. “Traditional” marriages frequently involve arrangements being made by parents for the marriage, without bothering to ask the children to be married off what they think of the arrangement or whether… Continue Reading
Driving ten miles an hour below the speed limit? That’s a perfectly good reason for a police officer to pull you over, at least in the Volunteer State. And then search your car for drugs. Which is what I suspect… Continue Reading
I’ve enjoyed reading columns on CNN from Roland Martin. He comes from a very different perspective than me (he’s a Protestant minister) and I don’t always agree with him. But his commentary is always lucid and thoughtful. And today, he’s… Continue Reading
Many have made this point before me. But adherence to irrational supernatural beliefs can be deadly. Like when mobs go after “witches.” Not black-hat-and-broomstick witches like you’d see at Halloween or in a Harry Potter movie, but animistic witches, practicing… Continue Reading
I’ve made special appearances for colleagues before in criminal matters but I’ve never undertaken representation of a defendant facing actual criminal charges. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ll have to do it now. We’re facing some personnel challenges and that involves… Continue Reading
If the following things all apply to your photo-enforcement red-light violation case… 1. You were actually the driver of the vehicle; and 2. The police officer actually shows up and answers “ready” for trial; and 3. Prior to trial, the… Continue Reading
A little bit less than 1,900 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, all but two of them in the New Orleans and southern Mississippi region. Yet the landfall of a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, which has killed over… Continue Reading
If I get sick, please don’t pray for me. Instead, get me to a doctor. Don’t do what the obviously very faithful Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin (a rural town near Wausau, smack dab in the middle of… Continue Reading
This is about the most horrible story out of New York I’ve seen in a long time. It’s very hard to opine on the verdict, not knowing all the facts of why the police began shooting at these men who… Continue Reading
In spite of yesterday’s praise for Prof. Martin, I think his analysis of this Latin-dropping opinion from the Ninth is wrong. Quick and dirty facts: Lei Shi is a cook on a fishing ship. He is a citizen of the… Continue Reading