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If you're looking for a link to your daughter's 'Bratz'-collecting blog, do you really want to receive traffic from the people who come here to read about law, theism, Hegelian idealism, crime, or cannibal zombies and the destruction they wreak, destruction that can only be ended by killing the brain so the body will die? And we're mild-mannered men compared to some of our readers, who cuss like sailors.

2 A Twitter account under the same name was later established, and has amassed hundreds of. Its primary blogger, American attorney Ken White, writes about law, scams, and freedom of expression on the Internet.

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If you wish to join that company, bear in mind that we feel free to speak our minds about anything. 1 According to its tagline, Popehat is a 'group complaint about law, liberty, and leisure'. We'd be happy to link to your blog, if you link to ours and meet our exacting standards (non-splog, non-porn, more than twenty posts, updated more than once every thirty days). Complaining to dad about mom's high-handed, arbitrary decision on your comment will only get you sent to the bushes, to cut a switch. If you're an orphan, we're like the Communist Party. But when it comes to YOU, we have one perspective.

Different authors have different perspectives. Or we may arrange it that you can never read this site, much less comment here. If you go out of your way to cause trouble, we may not do anything. There's an invisible line that moves with our mood. If you think we're jerks, do a better job at that than we do. You comment as a guest, so please act like a guest we'd like to invite over again. This is our living room, not your living room.

If you reasonably think that your comment was caught in it (say, if your comment hasn't appeared for a couple of days), feel free to drop us a line. We also use a robust comment-spam filter. That means the first time you comment, or if you include more than one link, one of us must approve the comment. You can contact Popehat authors at PolicyĬomments are moderated. Most of us are employed, but the site has nothing to do with our jobs, and isn't endorsed or approved by our employers. Popehat's authors write in their capacity as private citizens. The name 'Popehat' arises from an inside joke, and isn't a religious reference of any sort. We talk about art, movies, books, and anything else that moves us. Our authors met on a now-defunct gaming website called Gone Gold we also like to talk about games and what you might call geek culture. But Popehat isn't a law blog, and what you read here isn't legal advice. Often its authors want to talk about free speech, liberty, criminal justice, the legal system and its foibles, and related issues. What is Popehat about? It's about whatever its authors want. It has undergone many changes in form and appearance, and its members have come and gone. I’m a writer, but the platforms that publish me are not affiliated in any way with this newsletter.Popehat is a group blog originally established in April 2004. I’m a podcaster, but this newsletter is not affiliated with KCRW or Legal Talk Network and those entities do not manage, approve, or support its content. I’m a lawyer, but this newsletter is not sponsored, funded, endorsed, or affiliated with my law firm, which has no role in its content or management. Please feel free to write me at Disclaimer Popehat is a reference to that attitude of infallibility that seems to be a prerequisite to writing online.ĭo You Have Suggestions, Questions, Threats, Or Abuse? A friend make origami miters and wore them playing poker. But the name “Popehat” is an inside joke among online friends and not an actual reference to religion. I also do speeches and debates on free speech and criminal justice issues. I’m the host of the First Amendment podcast Make No Law, and the cohost of KCRW’s All the President’s Lawyers, a podcast about the Trump Administration’s legal travails. I’ve been published in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Reason Magazine, and I’ve been a Contributing Writer at The Atlantic. For the last ten years or so, I’ve written a lot on Twitter. Since 2004, I wrote at the blog Popehat, which is now mostly defunct. I’ve written a lot about federal criminal law, the criminal investigations surrounding the Trump Administration, First Amendment disputes and adjacent cultural disputes, and the intersection of free speech law and the internet. I also like to talk about the gulf between what the law is supposed to do and what it actually does.

I enjoy writing “lawsplainers” - attempts to make somewhat esoteric legal issues clear and entertaining to non-lawyers (and to reasonably tolerant lawyers). I mostly write about criminal justice and free speech issues. I’m also a husband of 23 years and a father to three children, all adopted internationally. I began my career as a federal prosecutor, and for the last twenty years have defended people in state and federal criminal proceedings and represented them as both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of civil matters, with a growing focus on First Amendment issues. I’m an attorney in Los Angeles, California, where I’m a partner in a small firm practicing criminal defense and civil litigation.

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