REPOST:  For those of you who couldn’t download my “Stand Your Ground” dissent on SSRN a few days ago, I am reposting.  (For reasons that were never quite clear to me, SSRN took it down for a while.)

HOT, HOT, HOT!!: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has finally released its report on “Stand Your Ground” laws. My fellow commissioners were disappointed that the staff’s independent empirical research didn’t support their preconceived beliefs … so they buried it. Read my dissenting opinion here.