by RG | Oct 15, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. BRACE YOURSELF, PEOPLE. I have something nice to say about Trump: I don’t think his recent proposal to the nine colleges was completely nuts....
by RG | Oct 15, 2025 | above the law
Dan Markel was a law professor who taught Criminal Law at Florida State. His life was cut short on June 18th, 2014 by Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera. But they weren’t the only ones responsible. Over time the evidence showed that Garcia and Rivera were paid to kill...
by RG | Oct 15, 2025 | above the law
The First Amendment does not have a bedtime of 10:00 p.m. The burden is on the government to prove that its actions are narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest. It has not done so. — Western District of Texas Judge David Ezra in a recent...
by RG | Oct 15, 2025 | above the law
Philosopher Paul Virilio wrote of the integral accident — with technological advancement there comes a corresponding new accident. Planes beget plane crashes, electricity begets electrocution. Artificial intelligence has, in turn, delivered the AI hallucination....
by RG | Oct 15, 2025 | above the law
Rule of thumb: you should never represent your client in a way that will make you need a lawyer down the line. As much as it is in your rights to argue up and down that your client is on the straight and narrow, once you cross in to moving money and making up...