Visiting Washington Prisons and Why I Do What I Do
Doesn’t it make you feel foolish when something you’ve done to others comes back around to you? In the past, I’ve been highly critical of public figures, and not just for what they do or say, but also...
View ArticleWhat a Night of Fights! UFC 162
I don’t know where UFC 162 ranks on the best cards ever rankings, but I do know that it was, to use a phrase uttered during the broadcast, beautiful destruction. And it was definitely the best card of...
View ArticleConversations About the Law: A New Series from The CockleBur
Over the next three months, the CockleBur will provide a series of conversations about the law from a number of prominent legal journalists, practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and social justice...
View ArticlePaying Billions to Warehouse those Addicted to Drugs
We are one of the few Western countries in the world that deals with drug addicts primarily through incarcerating them, and especially incarcerating those that support their habit by selling small...
View ArticleConversations About the Law Series: Kathryn Watts
Over the next three months, the CockleBur will provide a series of conversations about the law with a number of prominent legal journalists, practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and social justice...
View ArticleA Couple Weeks of Media Craziness
I kind of figured what would happen after Adam Liptak from the New York Times called to say he was going to write a follow-up piece to his 2010 article about my life and legal successes while in...
View ArticleMy Written Testimony to the U.S. Senate on Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Today, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 (you can read a primer on the JSVA here). The JSVA would allow federal judges to sentence...
View ArticleConversations About the Law Series: Josh Blackman
Over the next couple of months, the CockleBur will provide a series of conversations about the law with a number of prominent legal journalists, practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and social...
View ArticleConversations About the Law Series: Roy T. Englert Jr.
Over the next couple of months, the CockleBur will provide a series of conversations about the law with a number of prominent legal journalists, practitioners, scholars, policy makers, and social...
View ArticleNFL Playoff Predictions
Hey football fans, we’re entering the final quarter of the season and while the majority of the playoff seeds have already been spoken for despite Seattle being the only team to have clinched a berth,...
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