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22 Oct 2023, 10:10 am by Gene Takagi
Supreme Court Could Widen the Racial Wealth Gap (Brakeyshia Samms, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy) Black entrepreneurs and DEI efforts face complaints and lawsuits — for racial discrimination (Char Adams, NBC News) New AI Tools Must Have Health Equity in Their DNA (Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH; Rebecca Voelker, MSJ, JAMA Network) Climate Change Articles & Resources: When Facts Don’t Matter: The Climate Case (Penny Abeywardena, Forbes) Opinion: To shut… [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 6:56 am by Gavin Wilde
For example, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, military scholars note that “the central question for President Kennedy wasn’t whether or not there were nuclear-capable missiles on the island. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The news organizations showed how Trump and others employed strategies to slash their federal tax bills, in some cases down to zero. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 3:38 pm
 Pix credit here For those of you who have been following my step by step encounter with Jan Broekman's path-breaking book,  Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023), I am happy to announce that the entire work is now ready for review as a discussion draft.The abstract described my intentions: Humans create but do not regulate generative systems of data based programs (so-called… [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 5:15 am by Ryan Goodman
It depends on whether the obligation itself could ever incur criminal liability (some obligations don’t), and it depends on whether the actors have the requisite mental element, or state of mind, to satisfy the elements of a crime (“mens rea” in legalese). [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Trump’s Claim That He Can’t Be Prosecuted Collides with Precedents Yahoo News – Adam Liptak (New York Times) | Published: 10/12/2023 Among the bold claims in a recent motion filed by Donald Trump seeking to dismiss the federal indictment accusing him of conspiring to undermine the 2020 election, there was a significant concession. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 4:18 am by Seán Binder
 “USCENTCOM stands firmly with our Israeli and regional partners to address the risks of any party seeking to expand the conflict,” said General Michael Kurilla, Commander of U.S. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 2:03 am by Tessa Shepperson
  Rachel Maclean can’t really speak for the Courts as they are in the Justice Department not the Department of Levelling up. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 2:38 pm by John Elwood
The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 5:50 am by Brian Finucane
Further, it emerged that some members of the committee want to give the White House legal authority to use force that President Biden isn’t asking for and doesn’t want. [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 11:48 am by Norman L. Eisen
Jean Carroll’s defamation and sexual battery civil case, where, among other things, he doubled down on the remarks he made in the infamous Access Hollywood tape bragging about assaulting women; mistook Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a decades-old photograph of him and Carroll, undercut his defense that he did not assault Carroll because she “wasn’t [his] type”; and attacked Carroll’s woman attorney with similarly derogatory claims about her… [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 10:10 am by Dave Maass
EFF Special Advisor Paul Tepper and EFF intern Michael Rubio contributed research to this report. [read post]