Maker of Rifle in Texas Massacre Is Deep-Pocketed GOP Donor MSN – Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 5/27/2022 The owners of Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the rifle apparently used in the massacre of 21 people in Uvalde, Texas, are wealthy Republican donors, giving to candidates and committees at the federal and state level aligned against limits on access to assault rifles and other semiautomatic weapons. [read post]

In a previous post about a memoir Brandeis dictated to his secretary, I wrote about how that secretary, Alice Grady, helped run the public relations campaign for Brandeis after he had been nominated for the Supreme Court. [read post]

How the Trump Campaign Came to Court QAnon, the Online Conspiracy Movement Identified by the FBI as a Violent Threat Philadelphia Inquirer – Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 8/2/2020 President Trump and his campaign have courted and legitimized QAnon adherents. [read post]

Facebook Has Floated Limiting Political Ads and Labeling That They Aren’t Fact-Checked, Riling 2020 Campaigns Connecticut Post – Tony Romm and Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 12/4/2019 Facebook has weighed whether to label political ads to indicate they have not been fact-checked, rather than vetting what candidates say, one of a series of proposals the company has floated to Democratic and Republican operatives as it seeks to head off controversies… [read post]

One of the most important, if not the most important, United States copyright cases decided in 2013 is The Authors Guild, Inc. v Google Inc. 2013 WL 6017130 (S.D.N.Y. [read post]