by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
While you spent the weekend working through your leftover turkey, the conservative legal movement embraced a new passion project: digging up the remains of a long-dead Supreme Court justice. These people are very, very normal! Justice William O. Douglas — still the...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
As I was drafting this piece, Cloudflare experienced an outage that froze the AI tools I needed for background information. The outage lasted several hours. Imagine if I’d been working on a brief due in an hour. While the legal profession debates AI hallucinations,...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Partisans can make everything partisan. For example, who causes a standoff? Both sides. It takes two to stand off. If either side gave in to its opponent’s position, there would be no standoff. So who caused the government shutdown? Both sides, of course. The...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Sometimes the legal universe gifts us a moment of pure, uncut joy… the kind of cosmic alignment where the docket reads less like a court filing and more like a setup for a joke you’re pretty sure you can’t tell at the office. And today, friends, that moment arrives...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. People in the U.K. may continue to refer to it as Ashurst, but I think in the U.S., unfortunately for the double brand, it will be known as Perkins, which is what happens when these large law firms come...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Sending a White Supremacist back to class is a strange way to start the month but hey, it is Florida. Back in August the University of Florida expelled Preston Damsky over an antisemitic tweet. Damsky had earned notoriety earlier as the guy who got an A for writing a...
