Brief of the Onion as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner [pdf]
supremecourt.govThis is so brilliant because it's funny and persuasive, and the fact that it's funny is essential to what makes it persuasive. Just a wonderful piece of self-referential writing, that also serves a serious purpose.
I’ve been reading the Onion since it was a local paper in the early 90s.
It used to be a lot more edgy. And cynical.
I guess you can’t take risks once you’ve achieved a certain amount of fame.
Same, but for Vice Magazine
> In 2016, Anthony Novak was arrested for making a Facebook page that parodied the local police page.
> He was charged with disrupting a public service
> sets dangerous precedent undermining free speech
Is this different from FBI reaching out directly to facebook and making them remove content. Mark admitted that FB was(is?) guided by the FBI on their content policy. I find that more insidious and 'dangerous' than the case above. I find it even more surprising that there is no commotion about this.
This is one of those things I wish I could write.
Persuasive, funny, well-reasoned, learned -- absolutely amazing.
I really want to believe that the lawyers legally changed their last names in order to sound funnier.
The clerks must appreciate a change from their usual heavy reading.
In their newly-majoritarian efforts to be intellectually absurd, the conservative justices have met their match. Let freedom ring!
> newly-majoritarian efforts to be intellectually absurd
The phrasing of this is very odd indeed
Well, the Court's right wing now has a secure majority that doesn't even need Roberts, and their opinions smashing precedents are not stellar works of legal reasoning.