Ken White is a criminal defense attorney and civil litigator from Los Angeles, California. A former federal prosecutor, he has defended clients for 13 years against complex state and federal prosecutions, and has successfully represented a wide variety of defendants against abusive defamation suits. At the pro-liberty group blog Popehat.com, he writes about systemic threats to free speech and critiques the security state and the criminal justice system. He also lights the “Popehat Signal” to find pro bono attorneys to defend bloggers threatened with frivolous defamation suits.