David Roth

New York

Writer at Defector

Host at The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

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Articles

At Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge

6 days ago | defector.com | David Roth

It's not quite a large enough sample to be significant, and too inherently insignificant to really be worth the sampling, but we've done enough Drew Is About To Go On Vacation episodes of the podcast by now that I can detect their specific vibrational energy.
SCOTUS Reins in Fifth Circuit Over FDA E-Cigarette Application De

1 week ago | natlawreview.com | David Roth

In 2021, after a multi-year regulatory process, the Food and Drug Administration denied more than a million applications from tobacco manufacturers seeking to sell various flavored e-cigarette products.
Point/Counterpoint: JD Vance Drops The National Championship Trophy

1 week ago | defector.com | David Roth

During Monday's White House visit by the FCS National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes, former Ohio Senator and current Vice President JD Vance attempted to pick up the National Championship trophy and did not succeed; Vance fumbled both the top and the bottom of the trophy, the base of which tumbled to the ground. Here, Defector presents two perspectives on the incident. Boy, JD Vance sure did it biff it big time when he tried to pick up the National Championship trophy at the White House yesterday.
Is Reacher Too Big Now? A Roundtable Discussion

1 week ago | defector.com | David Roth

Tom Ley: Wow, I can’t believe this. After having been separated for more than a year, the Reacher Creatures have once again come back together to help each other in our time of need. The mission: Try to find something that any of us actually liked about Season 3 of Reacher. Roth, I believe you are the only one among us who had a good time watching this season. Perhaps you could explain to us your values? Now?
Beavises In The Code Base, With Tim Marchman

1 week ago | defector.com | David Roth

It is a longstanding workplace value at Defector not to take journalism too seriously. The work, however serious it might be from one moment to the next, is worth taking seriously and trying to do well. The industry and practitioners and accumulated lore and pomposity, on the other hand, must never get even a moment of respect.
Octavio Dotel Made A Life In Baseball

1 week ago | defector.com | David Roth

Different types of baseball careers have different kinds of shapes. Many, most, don't have any shape at all; they unfold entirely out of sight, under the waterline and in the minor leagues, and generally very quickly. Those are lives in the game, too, and the existence of even the most minor of Major League careers is a triumph simply for having existed.
Supreme Court Blocks EPA from Imposing Water Quality End-Result R

2 weeks ago | natlawreview.com | David Roth

Under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), the EPA issues permits limiting the pollutants that regulated entities can discharge into federal waters. Those permits generally operate either by establishing effluent limitations for certain pollutants or by imposing narrative requirements, like requiring the permittee to use “best practices” to limit pollution.
Where'd She Go To College? With Maitreyi Anantharaman

2 weeks ago | defector.com | David Roth

It is a fact that seven of the eight teams in the men's and women's Final Four were the top seeds in their respective brackets, but what that means is a different and much more debatable thing. (That the sole exception is two-seed UConn in the women's bracket is less debatable, that one is just funny.) Is it bad, or even a letdown, that the good teams are pretty much exactly as good as advertised?
Supreme Court Expands Definition of "Use" Under Section 924(c)

3 weeks ago | natlawreview.com | David Roth

Federal law provides a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for a person who uses or carries a firearm during a “crime of violence.” In Delligatti v. United States (No. 23-825), the Supreme Court addressed whether a crime of omission involves the “use” of physical force, thus subjecting a defendant to the sentencing enhancement. A 7-2 Court held that it does. Salvatore Delligatti is an associate of the Genovese crime family.
Supreme Court Clarifies “False Statements” Under 18 U.S.C. § 1014

3 weeks ago | natlawreview.com | David Roth

William Blake once observed that “a truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.” It turns out the Supreme Court agrees, at least for escaping liability under 18 U.S.C. § 1014. In Thompson v. United States (No. 23-1095), a unanimous court held that this statute criminalizes only false statements and not statements that are misleading but literally true. Patrick Thompson took out three loans from the Washington Federal Bank for Savings at various times.