I'll grant your point, absolutely. Like with most headline legal cases, the actors tend to be marred in all sorts of misery, misdeeds, and confusion. Analogousl

I'll grant your point, absolutely. Like with most headline legal cases, the actors tend to be marred in all sorts of misery, misdeeds, and confusion. Analogously, free speech cases almost always come down to defending assholes, because they're the ones who cause trouble in the first place. Probably I'm objecting to your 'procedural misconduct' phrasing, which appears to minimize an ethical disaster into an understandable mistake in the course of a busy day.