Obviously, I love Michael Penix — he’s the best QB my NCAA team of choice has produced since Mark Brunell if not Warren Moon, and he took them closer to a national championship than anyone could have even hallucinated 3 years ago. I would rank McCarthy ahead of him — don’t tell Campos — but he’s certainly a legit NFL prospect. Had the Falcons not signed Kirk Cousins — and in my view they should not have — I would have still urged them to trade down where he still probably would have been available, but whatever salud. But they did sign Cousins! To ~$100 million guaranteed! So the plan is to h ..read more

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 18: Caleb Williams #13 of the USC Trojans passes the ball during the first half of a game against the UCLA Bruins at United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on November 18, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) Here’s your thread to talk about the NFL draft. Let’s see how the Bears can screw this up. The post NFL Draft Thread appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money ..read more

Background here. Note that this means that the majority of USC’s graduating undergraduates will have missed both their high school commencement (because of Covid) and their college commencement (because upper university administrators have evolved into an invertebrate species.) The post USC cancels its commencement appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money ..read more

One thing that can’t be emphasized often enough is that verdicts in criminal trials are not intended to be and absolutely should not be treated as verdicts on historical truth. For example: Further, if Trump is elected in 2024, he can end this and the other federal prosecution against him. He also is likely to try to pardon himself. And the Supreme Court will be complicit in much of this. — Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) April 25, 2024 I agree completely with Hasen’s basic points here, but we should not be using the criminal process to pass judgment on Donald Trump as a matter of historical, as o ..read more

LSU Tigers Football vs Florida State Gators, Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, NCAA College Team, SEC – Tammy Anthony Baker, Photographer, FB: tammyanthonybaker X: tmabaker Inst: tabinla Who is as ready for the NFL Draft as we here at LGM? No one! Scott, Rob, and I sat down last night to hash through a bunch of the issues in the draft, including the state of the quarterbacks. We also more or less went through the first half of the first round, considered trade options, and I think made fun of the Broncos. At least I hope we did. Draft starts tonight, we will have a thread on it. Transcrip ..read more

I (or Paul or both) will have more on the Trump immunity case when I’ve had a chance to read the transcript, but Sam Alito was in very Alito form today as he was yesterday: Justice Alito suggests that, if former presidents are subject to prosecution after leaving office, they'll be more likely to seek to unlawfully remain in office after they were defeated for re-election/their term has ended. JFC. — Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) April 25, 2024 “If we don’t allow the [Republican] president to perform autogolpes without conequences it might undermine the stability of democracy” is Alito jur ..read more

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Idaho abortion case. Ian Milhiser summarizes the legal situation: EMTALA requires hospital emergency rooms that accept Medicare funding to provide “such treatment as may be required to stabilize the medical condition” of “any individual” who arrives at the hospital’s ER with an “emergency medical condition.” Though the law does not specifically mention abortion, it is written in capacious terms. So, if a patient has an “emergency medical condition” and the proper treatment to stabilize that condition is an abortion, the hospital must provide ..read more

As an interregnum in our discussion of Rural White Rage, Rick Perlstein’s fascinating account of attending an affair hosted by Silicon Valley libertarian asshole Marc Andressen contains this highly instructive anecdote: I KNEW FROM THE NEW YORKER THAT ANDREESSEN had grown up in an impoverished agricultural small town in Wisconsin, and despised it. But I certainly was not prepared for his vituperation on the subject. He made it clear that people who chose not to leave such places deserved whatever impoverishment, cultural and political neglect, and alienation they suffered ..read more

The founder of Sun Microsystems, who was also the first investor in Google back in 1998, when the company didn’t even have a bank account yet (it was basically just an idea being kicked around by three Stanford students), is probably doing OK financially. But not OK enough not to try to steal a little more: Twenty one years later, Mr. Bechtolsheim may have seized a different kind of opportunity. He got a phone call about the imminent sale of a tech company and allegedly traded on the confidential information, according to charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The profit fo ..read more

Well damn that’s um… sad, or something: The founder of the Gateway Pundit, the infamous conspiracy theory site, announced on Wednesday that the company had declared bankruptcy. Jim Hoft published a message on the website that read, “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.” Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shay ..read more