This would, indeed, be disappointing.

Every time I dig into the discovery in a new federal drug case I'm blown away by the amount of public resources devoted to enriching foreign criminal enterprises and incarcerating poor folks here desperate enough to work for them.

Now if you spent years pretending to believe that you think compliance with federal document-retention rules is a top-tier issue and now egg is on your face, I do feel kind of bad for you but the lesson is to be less dishonest in the future.

The day after effectively firing the entire commission that oversees public defense in Oregon, Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters has named four new members to the Public Defense Services Commission. Others (Ludwig, Solomon, Ramfjord, Williams, Harvey) were reappointed.

It tears barristers like me apart to strike, but the government has left us no choice | Simon Spence theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

John Hendrickson (John Hendrickson) has a curious relationship with language. As a journalist and author, he writes words for a living. But he also has a stutter and struggles to say them out loud. nyti.ms/3AGkW7N

Imagine if instead of approaching struggling folks with violence and putting them in dungeons, we approached them with kindness and put them in safe clean spaces. Imagine if that cost about the same. nytimes.com/2022/08/24/opi…

Interviewer: So they need to work harder? Judge Albrecht: They need to get some of the cases that have been pending for a long time resolved. Which is what their job is.

Last time I checked, my job was to zealously defend my client, not manage the court’s docket efficiently.

“One of the hardest things about stuttering is that it’s invisible until the moment it happens.” nytimes.com/2022/08/29/bri…

Tahoma appearing to vent but then saying "no no it's just a cloud, I'm fine" is such a classic passive-aggressive PNW move

Revisiting the atmosphere shortly after 9/11: 87% of Americans reported feeling angry, and the public was more concerned that the Bush administration wouldn't respond quickly enough than worried it would respond too quickly (49% vs. 34%). #September11 pewresearch.org/politics/2021/…

🧵 Seldom-quoted #MLK: “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society…

The The New York Times apparently couldn't find someone to cover AZ politics that knows Arcadia is the name of a neighborhood, not a suburb. nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/…

“predicting, as he puts it, ‘a military power beyond conception, a judiciary power with severe, restrictive laws and a school system to educate senseless brutes in the ecstasy of self-sacrifice.’” nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opi…

Indigenous groups in the U.S. and Canada are leading efforts to restore bison across North America more than a century after European settlers drove the species to near extinction. Tribes now have a collective 20,000 bison, and that’s growing steadily. apnews.com/article/scienc…

My statement on the FBI reviewing new evidence in Clinton email probe: