What Ken White thinks about America
Criminal defence and First Amendment lawyer in Los Angeles, a former federal prosecutor, and the author of The Popehat Report. Co-hosts the legal podcast Serious Trouble.
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4 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Ken White has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingDemanding simple answers to hard questions is itself a political harm, not just an intellectual one.
Their wordsThe stubborn thirst for simple answers to hard questions is bad for America.
↗Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questionspopehat.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their words“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
↗My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsAs I’ve argued before, the so-called “objective standard” can be very difficult to administer in this big diverse messy country where we often don’t share a common sense of reality and there is no uniform “reasonable person.”
↗Supreme Court Clarifies "True Threats" First Amendment Exceptionpopehat.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsNow, finally, the Court has resolved the question: the First Amendment requires that, at a minimum, the government prove that a speaker was reckless about whether their statement would be interpreted as threatening.
↗Supreme Court Clarifies "True Threats" First Amendment Exceptionpopehat.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece