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Charles Star’s Biography

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Attorney, writer, comedian. Host of Persuasive Authority CLE series at Caveat. Host of Hostile Witness podcast (soon), Mic Dicta podcast (in days gone by) and guest lawman on This Week in Atrocity podcast.

Law-writing at Vice, Slate, The Outline and Deadspin (RIP), sportswriting at The Classical (RIP).

Charles Star’s Journalist Portfolio

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Yes, sending Kurt Eichenwald a GIF can be a crime

Yes, sending Kurt Eichenwald a GIF can be a crime

An analysis of the assault statute used to charge an alt-right troll with assault for sending an epiliptogeni…

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Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong

Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong

You wouldn't want a news cycle to pass without something to read about Michael Avenatti, and lord knows he wo…

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You Say You Sell “Le Big Mac,” but Why Should We Believe You?

You Say You Sell “Le Big Mac,” but Why Should We Believe You?

The European Union just canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs. Wait, what?

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Anthony Kennedy Was Never Really a Friend to Liberals

Anthony Kennedy Was Never Really a Friend to Liberals

A look back at Kennedy's record shows that but for a few high-profile rulings, he was a conservative justice …

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Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti's Petty Beef, Explained by a Lawyer

Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti's Petty Beef, Explained by a Lawyer

Can Trump's lawyer block Stormy Daniels's lawyer from appearing in court because he's an asshole?

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Here's What That Supreme Court Decision About Sports Betting Actually Does

Here's What That Supreme Court Decision About Sports Betting Actually Does

There are wiser ways to start an article about sports betting than this but still, I have to warn you - the S…

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Articles

Of course they had been lying to the court

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By Charles Star, Luke O'Neil Verified
| Welcome to Hell World
There was a development in the story of the beautiful and quite frankly perfect Bill Barr memo the other day. Politico writes: Being too stupid to understand or remember what any of all that shit was about I asked Charles Star to explain. (Note for subscribers: This will go out in the next newsletter in a few days with some other stuff.) Find previous discussions in Hell World with Star and a piece he wrote on qualified immunity here and here and here.
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If we tase him he is going to light on fire

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By Charles Star, Luke O'Neil Verified
| Welcome to Hell World
Today Charles Star joins us to write about the case of a man in Texas who was threatening to set himself on fire so the cops tased him thereby instantly setting him on fire. Maybe they had somewhere to be and wanted to get it over with. In February the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the cops had used reasonable force in setting the man on fire. I wrote about this in here before briefly.
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Yes, sending Kurt Eichenwald a GIF can be a crime

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By Charles Star
| The Outline
On December 15, 2016, after appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show to argue about Trump, journalist Kurt Eichenwald opened his Twitter account at his home in Dallas to a tweet from a man named John Rivello. The tweet contained an animated, epileptogenic GIF, and that GIF — as intended — triggered a seizure for Eichenwald, who is epileptic.
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Interview

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What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

news hashtags are a terrible source of humor

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

DM on Twitter. I'm not always affirmatively looking to write but I don't turn down the chance to turn something around quickly.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

None. I'm not the guy to ask that question. J school seems like a scam though.