I am visualizing the scene where it’s 3am and Meryl Streep appears at the foot of Bezos’s bed as the ghost of Katherine Graham, pointing at his inevitable future headstone.
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I am visualizing the scene where it’s 3am and Meryl Streep appears at the foot of Bezos’s bed as the ghost of Katherine Graham, pointing at his inevitable future headstone.
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If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.
We failed ourselves when we abandoned Reconstruction. In Foner's words, "Nearly a century elapsed before the nation again attempted to come to terms with the implications of emancipation and Reconstruction’s political and social agenda. In many ways, it has yet to do so.”
So Walz and Frey's political speech = crime of interfering with a gov't function, but Jack Smith is (as Prof. Turley put it) a "constitutional menace" for asserting criminal activity can involve the use of words to form a conspiracy. "For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law."
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
There is an argument - people may have various views on this, I imagine - that all political violence is inherently antisemitic. That is, violence as a response to disputes is "anti" to all that "shalom" means to say, what tikkun olam envisions, and what Isaiah 2:4 said about swords and plowshares.
I have a joke about Orpheus & Eurydice but, looking back, it's not all that great.
Justice Frankfurter was born in Austria but then became a naturalized citizen; I imagine he may have objected if the effect of a law was that his documents describe him as Austrian, although his birth there is a historical fact.
I take your point these are odd times. I think Smith was reasonable in thinking odds of a bad judge was not = danger of a serial killer. He'd tried serial killers in the Hague. We all know better now, I agree. But criticizing prosecutors for hewing to regularity feels like a downward cycle.
That is a fair point about the overall prospects. But blaming Jack Smith or calling it a mistake to “go by the book,” shifts way too much accountability away from Judge Cannon and the apparently corrupt parade of irregular decisions she made. It’s not the victim’s job to adjust to the abuser.
I guess she didn’t watch the 2025 “Superman” where Clark tried to change the rules after the interview started?
I thought in nearly all cases members of these groups are not eligible to vote in the US. So how do D’s keep winning elections in my state? 🤔
30 years ago Con law class covered Critical Legal Studies and Law & Economics- which weren’t really “law” as much as political preferences dressed up in moral reasoning. So not different. That said, different now in that with the “shadow docket”the “dress it up with reasoning” is gone- literally.
Would be interested in takes on whether this decision effectively means police departments can stop worrying about harmful bias in AI-powered policing. E.g., did SCOTUS just effectively say you can intentionally code race into an algorithm but not violate the 4th (or 5th) Amendment?
Super stoked to relate that the first single from my forthcoming record "Gilman Town Hall" is out!
A surf-rock number featuring some crunchy guitars, pounding drums, and a wee bit of electric sitar. Enjoy!
open.spotify.com/track/1Tqa7J...
Not gonna spoil the movie “Conclave” but if you have seen it you know.
Federal government “jawboning” apparently now more closely resembles what Samson did to the Philistines.
Seems to me if there are files with credible evidence of horrific sex abuse crimes (by persons of any political party or of none) the thing to do first would put them in front of a grand jury rather than release them to the public. And then announce the indictments. Am I wrong about that?
I’m not an economist but it seems quite possible the next President will be able to boost the economy (and get a news cycle out of it) without doing anything other than going back to what most economists would say we should have been doing anyway.
Good summary of some serious issues with “Agentic AI.” Suggests standards groups should consider how federated AI agents would work: set it up so there’s no one firm who has all the data (and all the authorizations) to do stuff.
Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
All the more true given the “that” in the play is to arrest the legally innocent but morally corrupt Richard Rich, who reminds me of the comic book character who is a child with insane amounts of gold and cash.
Seems like he's making a straw man argument. Asking for permission does not require developers to ask each creator individually. There are licensing models (similar to ASCAP for music) that can integrate respect for creators with promoting innovation. More at cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/12...
Polos!
Very very sad news. Not just my Senator, my neighbor. Peace and comfort to his wife, family, friends and constituents.
Whether you ‘attended’ the Judiciary Committee meeting at which Dr. Franks served as a minority witness or not, you *need* to read this analysis piece.
Oh God - yes, it was a horrible opinion but not necessary to bring up that painful moment
