Ken White

Criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Lawsplainer and podcaster.

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2023-08-18 17:50:54

Jesus, can you imagine? And some people want me to go back.
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2023-08-15 17:00:12

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2023-08-15 13:44:48

On Serious Trouble, we’ve got Judge Chutkan and restrictions on Trump’s use of discovery, Twitter sanctioned for resisting a subpoena for Trump’s data, SBF jailed, Rudy Giuliani spelling and thinking badly, and rich little shits misbehaving. BUT we’re recording another episode today about Georgia!
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/this-episode-is-not-rico#comments

2023-08-15 03:11:31

https://youtu.be/aiVkyD1yzJg

2023-08-14 20:24:29

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2023-08-10 05:26:03

Okay. The folding chair meme is amusing. But society has rules. You can’t just go around beating racist bullies with chairs, firmly grasping two different points of the chair and rotating at the waist during the follow-through

2023-08-09 03:00:37

Confidential to R. — if you bring a lot of defamation claims based on your political hatred of the defendants or affinity for the plaintiffs rather based on merits you are going to lose a whole lot

2023-08-08 16:41:23

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@npub1v2j…kfdj He was a slightly more genteel racist shitbird, Jesse, the sort that impresses venture capitalists and rich dudes with Nazi memorabilia collections.

2023-08-08 14:01:55

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@npub1hfr…td5x So you don’t know how something works but you’d like it used somehow to censor people?
That’s why people think devil’s advocates are assholes, Mark.

2023-08-08 13:54:04

I’m really glad Barbie is doing so well because it’s providing work for so many people. It’s successful enough for Ben Shapiro AND Bill Maher to feed their families by being agitated about it.

2023-08-07 03:53:19

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2023-08-06 21:36:35

The Washington Post’s Trump-probable-sentence column was awful.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/beware-the-flood-of-trump-sentencing

2023-08-04 17:53:42

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@npub1cpy…lyn7 @npub1zcm…sn55 I did and the buried-late-in-the-article qualification is incomplete, misleading, and basically useless.

2023-08-04 17:52:54

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@npub15yg…wtqm Hi Ho The RICO the Chesebro stands alone

2023-08-04 14:16:33

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@npub13p6…feyr We’re already looking into it, thanks.

2023-08-04 13:06:45

OH WHAT THE SEVEN DIRTY WORDS IS THIS NONSENSE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/03/how-much-prison-time-might-donald-trump-actually-face/

2023-08-03 18:33:11

DoJ and federal prosecutors are pursuing Trump, who is awful. But don’t lose sight that DoJ and prosecutors are often awful and should not be trusted routinely just because you hate who they are prosecuting.
https://reason.com/2023/08/02/backpage-publisher-alt-weekly-entrepreneur-and-free-speech-warrior-james-larkin-has-died/

2023-08-03 15:05:21

This weekend in the NYT watch for an op-ed from OJ Simpson to put this in context
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4135422-desantis-vows-to-start-slitting-throats-on-day-one/

2023-08-03 14:28:43

Looking at the six co-conspirators, only one — Kenneth Chesebro - went to Harvard or Yale Law. This is disappointing. In this great nation’s history and culture, Harvard and Yale have played prominent and indispensable roles in destroying the Republic. Letting me down here.
Yes, two went to Georgetown Law. Nice work Georgetown. Way to get on the board! It’s a good start but see if you can start a few wars or overthrow something and get back to us.

2023-08-02 20:53:34

WARNING
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
WE ARE AT CONDITION MOMMY MILKY
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2023-08-01 17:41:38

A story in three parts.
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2023-07-31 00:44:36

Someone trying to tempt me back to Twitter with this screenshot, saying “come on, won’t it be fun to respond to this?” Their idea of fun may differ from mine.
Lots of people have made fun of my mental illness and openness about it, most often on Twitter. But I’m okay. So far I haven’t looked at one of them and said “wow they seem really happy and successful, I wish I had their life.”
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2023-07-06 16:03:47

If a little voice ever says to you “what if you stopped being artificially polite and just told people on social media what you think, and mirroring their attitude and tone back to them, for a day?” you should drink until the voice goes away.

2023-06-30 00:48:56

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay
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2023-06-28 18:33:32

BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly launching Mann Act investigation of former President Donald Trump
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2023-06-27 05:54:20

Good news! I can throw out the meds and ditch the therapy; my problem is bad character and weak self-discipline.
You can always look to a Kennedy for character advice.
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2023-06-25 22:49:05

My kids find it hard to imagine how we used to suffer through showers without some total fuckwit on YouTube turned up full volume on your laptop on the counter

2023-06-23 23:56:18

Glenn Greenwald: Mercenaries, whom I do not support, are acting like Nazis, whom I do not support, when they threaten Russia, which I do not support, instead of battling Ukraine, which I do not support, at the best of the West, which I do not support.

2023-06-11 19:07:54

Ha ha Ted Kacynski what a weird modernity-hating freak. Anyway, back to this tech billionaire who killing children with his robot-car alpha tests and turning a virtual town square into a incel klan rally

2023-06-09 18:10:41

Yes, now that we have an indictment, we are recording an episode today.
I will not call it an emergency episode because Josh gets very upset if I use that term because he says there’s no such thing.

2023-06-06 20:22:58

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@npub16m2…vj2a This year for the first time over in La Crescenta we have bunches of them.

2023-06-04 23:35:26

Jack boosting the lunatic RFK Jr. Is no surprise. Entrepreneurs, and particularly techbrahs, are vulnerable to the great-man-outsider narratives because they see it as resonating with their own stories. They’re suckers for all sorts of Kirkland-brand Ubermensch poseurs.

2023-05-30 22:27:03

Proposition: convince these people that toiletries — toothpaste, deodorant, toilet paper, soap — are gay and trans and woke, until they wind up looking and smelling like the newscasters from Batman after the Joker poisons stuff with Smilex.
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2023-05-25 20:39:08

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@npub1asa…n9sr @npub1lm2…cszn I think you must be not reading one of the words

2023-05-15 21:59:42

So just a reminder that a complaint, even if very entertaining, even if against a horrible person, even if it describes things the person would credibly do, even if it supports all your priors, is just an accusation.

2023-05-11 01:15:11

CNN right now
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2023-04-28 16:20:14

One of the kids has COVID and lost smell and taste. Wife bought special deserts for our 26th anniversary the other day but didn’t buy any for the kids. Kid complained. Wife [elaborate shrug]: “It’s not like you could taste it anyway.” That’s why I married her, readers.

2023-04-25 01:27:45

Apparently they didn’t even let Tucker Carlson record a final episode to wrap up plot lines and now we’ll never know if they caught those pooping Gypsies

2023-04-23 02:47:48

What if I told you there is no end point to Elon Musk’s insecurity, emotional brokenness, and spastic egotism

2023-04-19 21:56:30

Politicians leaving me voicemails asking me for money like I don’t have two kids in college.

2023-04-19 16:22:52

This week on Serious Trouble: an episode we had to record twice, because we were overtaken by 787,500,000 events. https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/wow-thats-a-lot-of-cash#details

2023-04-04 14:19:01

Happy New York State Criminal Procedure Expert Day to all who celebrate

2023-03-31 18:02:22

I just dropped a meme that’s old enough to drive. Kind of funny you can now out yourself as an Official Old just by which online memes you reference

2023-03-31 13:44:43

You know a grand jury would indicate a ham sandwich

2023-03-31 01:28:44

Ah, the judge who will take Trump’s arraignment is named Juan.
Imagine how that’s going to go over.

2023-03-31 01:23:35

Cry havoc, and let slip the contrived outrage of Fox

2023-03-30 22:55:09

God, how far Alan Dershowitz has fallen. He could start a pillow company at this point.

2023-03-30 22:47:49

This seems like a really excellent day not to be on Twitter any more.

2023-03-29 15:41:25

I continue to be mystified by the sentiment that being a First Amendment advocate means *socially* tolerating people I find obnoxious or contemptible. I keep getting “what kind of free speech advocate blocks people?” The kind who doesn’t deal with assholes when not professionally compelled to do so. The First Amendment isn’t a hair shirt.

2023-03-28 17:20:41

Looking forward to the Fifth Circuit giving this assclown qualified immunity on the theory that there’s no decision saying you can’t violate someone’s rights after announcing you know you’ve violating their rights.
Also this will agitate the FIRE-haters, which will be amusing.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/26/fire-sues-west-texas-am-over-its-blocking-of-student-groups-drag-show/

2023-03-23 09:40:25

Kind of enjoying watching the American media trying to maintain a week-long fever-pitch tension over OMG TRUMP BEING INDICTED TOTALLY TODAY

2023-03-17 20:21:54

Society: You can’t take or sell drugs or we’ll put you in jail. Drugs lead to a life of suffering and squalor.
People: So suffering and squalor are bad?
Society: YES
People: And you’ll help lift me out of suffering and squalor?
Society: lol no
People: . . .
Society: THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU CAN’T TAKE DRUGS

2023-03-17 17:34:08

The same week that some people are telling you that OBVIOUSLY “woke” has a clear meaning, and that only disingenuous people would argue otherwise, the 11th Circuit refused to stay the trial court ruling that Florida’s “dystopian” Stop WOKE Act violated the First Amendment.
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/politics/desantis-anti-woke-law-appeal-block/index.html

2023-03-11 00:52:16

I know I am extremely culturally biased but “Silicon Valley Bank” kind of screams “Juicero Pets.com Savings and CryptoLoan” to me.