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RES IPSA HITS 43,000,000

crowd vj dayLast night, we passed the 43,000,000 mark in views on the blog. The blog continues to grow at a record and accelerating pace. The continued growth is due primarily to our loyal readers who return every day to discuss contemporary legal, political, and occasionally bizarre stories. We have used these moments to give thanks for our many regular readers around the world and give you an idea of the current profile of readers on the blog. We continue to rank with the top legal blogs in the world  and I am particularly proud of our growing international readership. As always, I want to offer special thanks for Darren Smith who has continued to help manage the blog and help out folks who encounter posting problems.

So here is our current profile:

Yesterday, we hit 19,185 posts — an amazing figure. We have also experienced a huge increase in those following us by email and Twitter. On Twitter alone, we now have roughly 200,000 active followers.

In the last 90 days, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. Netherlands
7. European Union
8. France
9. India
10. Ireland

The top five posted in terms of readership in the last 90 days are:

1. Two New York Attorneys Arrested For Throwing Molotov Cocktail At Police [Updated]

2. President Obama Declares “There Is No Precedent That Anybody Can Find” For The Flynn Motion

3. Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department

4. Did The Mueller Team Violate Brady and Flynn Orders?

5. University of Massachusetts Nursing Dean Fired After Saying “Everyone’s Life Matters” [Updated]

Thank you to all of our regular commentators. We remain an extraordinarily broad and diverse body of commenters from different parts of the world and different political and social backgrounds. Thanks again.

32 thoughts on “RES IPSA HITS 43,000,000”

  1. Apparently people are still interested in the law. Most Americans are blissfully unaware of this wonderful thing that we have called the Constitution which as far as I know is unique in the world. Without it, all of those rights we take for granted become privileges to be doled out at will. It’s sad that that’s what a lot of people seem to think they want. Thank you for your hard work on the blog and for caring about the law and defending it. That’s truly a service to posterity because we are teetering on the brink. Now, for the love of heaven would you please hire a proofreader.

  2. My Tor Broswer connection indicates my IP address is in Germany. other days it indicates France, Netherlands, UK, Canada and United States. It has never piggy backed onto an IP address in Australia though.

    2. Canada
    3. United Kingdom
    4. Australia
    5. Germany
    6. Netherlands
    7. European Union
    8. France

  3. Greetings from NZ. This blog is part of my daily ritual. I am trying to convince my 20 yr old son that if he wants a balanced view of the important arguments around free speech and other issues, this is where he should come. I lean more right than the author of this blog, but I find the commentary here to well and truly pass the ‘fair and balanced’ test. This is a very important voice! Cheers.

  4. 50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong.
    50,000,000 Englebert Humperdiink fans can be wrong.

  5. Prof. Turley –

    Thank you for your continued defense of free speech, your always-civil tone, and your commitment to applying the law equally to all. I’ve stopped reading most news, but I look forward to reading your commentary every day.

  6. Professor, I’ve always enjoyed your commentary on news shows. It was only a couple of months ago that I found you had a blog. It’s been informative, and I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts. In this age of people screaming at each other, it’s so nice to read calm, well explained positions. Well done, and THANK YOU!

  8. A pleasure to read your columns. I often wish the objective way you look at the law would be extended to the comment section. Maybe one day you can write a column as to how one maintains objectivity when dealing with legal issues.

  10. It’s the Twilight Zone. An interview with the commentators

    Where are we? What are we? Who are we? Those are the questions we asked ourselves. Nameless things with no memory.

    1. The American Founders blazed the trail out of the hellish existence depicted in this Twilight Zone episode. Doubt and confusion as to the freedom of men are the reasons the American Founders gave Americans maximal individual freedoms, rights, privileges and immunities through the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as they severely limited and restricted Congress and government to the simple provision of security and infrastructure. The problem with America; the singular American failure for 231 years, has been and remains the Supreme Court. The Supreme court, through many multiple treasonous and capital offenses, has abused power it does not possess and usurped power provided to the legislative and executive branches. The Supreme Court has failed in its sole charge which is merely to assure that actions comport with law and fundamental law – the “manifest tenor” of that law. The corruption of the judicial branch must be excised utterly. The mechanism provided for such excision is impeachment and has not been employed by the dishonorable, corrupt and treasonous, anti-Constitutional, anti-American elected representatives in Congress. The trail out of the depicted hellish existence has not be taken by elected officials. The restricted-vote of the restricted-vote republic has been corrupted while one man, one vote democracy always leads to dictatorship and a politically hellish existence.
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      “[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

      – Alexander Hamilton
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      “the people are nothing but a great beast…

      I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”

      – Alexander Hamilton
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      “The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”

      “If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”

      Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted, 1775

      1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg disparaged the Constitution, which she is required to swear to support by fundamental law, to an audience in a foreign country and persists willfully in a condition of demonstrable incapacity, both as acts of treason by definition – America is not to powerless to correct the course of this traitor.

  11. Congratulations! Courage and intellectual rigor still have an audience!

  14. I can think of several reasons why your site is getting so many views. You allow comments even when they are not part of the current indoctrination/narrative regarding systemic racism, etc. Since fewer websites and publications are presenting viewpoints beyond a narrow spectrum, your site is a breath of fresh air. Additionally, you provide viewpoints that aren’t always one-sided or of just of one persuasion;I believe that some of the people here are trying to talk you out of some of those viewpoints because you threaten the current narrative and you’re not a Democrat who toes the line when the line is unethical, immoral, illogical, racist or repulsive.

  15. There are only about 6 people on here who ever agree with me. Does that mean I am in a minority of .00000014? The only thing I can think of that would be lower is the number of journalists in the main stream media.

    1. honestlawyermostly, did you mean to say the number of UNBIASED journalists in the mainstream media?

  18. It’s a pleasure to read something from someone who speaks with intelligence & reason.

  20. Well, you are one of the few few sain voice out there….. the world is going NUTS..

    1. I’m sure when you used the word ‘sain’ you meant the adjective ‘sane’ instead of the verb,’sain’ but both are appropriate and good in their own ways.

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