Milt Policzer

Los Angeles

Columnist at Courthouse News Service

Independent Online Media Professional at Freelance

Courthouse News columnist; racehorse owner and breeder; one of those guys who always got picked last

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Pay the man

2 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

President Trump gets sued a lot — and that may be good for lawyers — but it hasn't been all that effective. There's a better way to change White House policies. Maybe suing the president isn’t the right way to go. If you’re one of the people suing, you’re spending a lot of money and energy and maybe not getting satisfying results.
Do it yourself

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

I have the solution to California’s State Bar exam crisis: self-help. Quick recap in case you don’t know about this: The bar association decided to save money by dumping the standard Multistate Bar Exam in favor of creating its own test. It also hired a company to administer the test and enable remote exams so the bar wouldn’t have to spend as much on room rental. This was supposed to save up to $3.8 million a year. That’s not what happened.
The right to bear arms against bears

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

You can tell you’ve been reading too many news stories when random sentences immediately remind you of current politics. I had this experience the other day after running across this sentence in an Alaska Supreme Court decision: “The harvest of older male bears reduces the hunt’s impact on the population’s sustainability.”Didn’t I read something like that in an article about Democrats wanting younger leaders?
Full employment

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Sometimes it’s hard to decide whether something is good news or bad news. The American Bar Association has reported that the employment percentage rate for 2024 law graduates hit an all-time high even though the class was much bigger than the previous year. Good for new lawyers. Maybe not so good for everyone else because that means — or might mean — there’s a lot more litigation going on. Or maybe it’s a Trump bump. He likes to sue. Other people like to sue him.
Let this sink in

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Are you obsessed with politics? Can you not get enough? If so, you need therapy. I’m not a therapist, however, so instead I’m going to help feed your addiction with a new game: Find the Politics. All you have to do is log on to the social media outlet of your choice and search for any random topic — the randomer the better. Then prepare to be astonished (or horrified) to find political/Trumpy content. Give yourself points for finding as many of these unexpected (or expected?) items as you can.
Full employment

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

There’s always more than one way of looking at things. Bad news can be good news if you’re in the right kind of job. I point this out because I’ve been feeling a little guilty lately even though I’m not guilty (and, yes, I know that’s what everyone says). I make a living in the news/sarcasm business because bad and dumb things happen pretty much all the time. If society had no problems and everyone was sane and smart, I’d be out on the street.
007 reimagined

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

I’ve been thinking a lot about James Bond lately. It’s not because I’m a Bond fan. Womanizing action heroes aren’t my thing, but I won’t think less of you if you like them. What I do, however, enjoy is change, variety and originality. You’ve got to admit — love them or not — that all the Bond movies are pretty much the same. Variations on a theme. So I was pretty excited when the news broke that the producers of the Bond films had sold the Bond rights to Amazon.
Reverse cow

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Evil thought: There’s more than one way to blackmail a law firm. The White House has convinced (extorted?) a group of Big Law firms to pledge millions of dollars of associate slave labor in exchange for not having their security clearances revoked. (Pause for a moment if you haven’t already to consider whether this has anything to do with security since the law firms were suddenly secure again after they caved.)The cowed Big Law firms (as opposed to the uncowed — lioned?
Rogue rulings

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

Finally, a Trump-supporting conservative congressman has had the courage to introduce legislation that everyone should agree on. A couple of years ago, a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, named Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling banning the sale of an abortion drug. It was one of a number of rulings in cases affecting the entire country that for some reason just had to be heard in Amarillo, Texas. You can’t blame lawyers for wanting to appear before their favorite judges.
Constitutional crisis

Mar 24, 2025 | courthousenews.com | Milt Policzer

What exactly is a constitutional crisis? We keep hearing about constitutional crises these days, but no one warning us has told us what exactly one looks like. How do we know we’re in one? How do we prepare for one? Do we need to stock up on eggs? Are weapons involved? Do constitutional crises get names like hurricanes? Will we be taken by surprise if there’s no National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? Is not having the NOAA the crisis? It seems important to be prepared for a crisis.