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2 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
The results were impressive: By 2010, civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped by 20 percent, with deaths from air strikes down over 60 percent. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
Should the plaintiffs' position be overreaching, than only to a gradual extent as far as I can see based on the evidence that has been put out in the open.Google's argument comes down to saying that there are millions of documents--enough to build a case on--and that even if anything relevant was said in those Google-internal chats, it wouldn't add anything new. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 7:45 pm
National/Federal 2-Year Sentence for Hawaii Woman’s Trump Lobbying Scheme MSN – Associated Press | Published: 1/18/2023 An American consultant was sentenced to two years in prison for an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
Larry Kramer and other popular constitutionalists remind us that words designed to be implemented by courts are far more likely to have legal meanings than words designed to be implemented by a dominant political party or virtuous elites in the elected branches of national government. [read post]
22 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
In complex systems, every breakdown—at least, every breakdown worth correcting—is the product of many actors, all of whom move events farther down the causal path. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 12:09 pm
As Professor Larry Lessig once said, “Fair use is the right to hire a lawyer” – and many of us don’t have the resources to do that, nor access to pro bono counsel. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am
The first is that the platforms have the power to decide what content to keep online and what to take down, free from government oversight. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Gore’s self-restraint, in short, represents one of the great moments of constitutional statesmanship in American history.[5]Nevertheless, it would be fool-hardy to expect future Vice-Presidents to follow him down this path if a third-par [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 6:33 pm
Pix Credit HEREThe state of the economic stability in Cuba has been very much in the news since the effects of the COVID pandemic, combined with geopolitical challenges, have pushed the Cuban economy to a crisis that comes close to matching that when its subsidies disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet Union. [read post]
14 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
According to Larry Solum, whose account accords with my memory, its first use was by Richard Epstein.[2] It's not clear to me that even in the physical sciences it takes a Theory to beat a Theory.[3]Without trying to borrow trouble by “relying on” authorities in other fields, I think that one version of the current view is that theory-change occurs in the physical sciences through a combination of the identification of anomalies that the Theory in question has trouble… [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 4:30 am
As he so elegantly put it: 'It is a strange originalism indeed that would be unanimously voted down by the enacting generation.' I might have said 'not recognized' but the point is pretty much the same. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 4:33 pm
By Larry K. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 3:00 am
Others are using the money to keep a foothold in the public arena, slowly spending down what is left on political donations, charitable contributions, and administr [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 3:30 am
And we shall return to our wifi-enabled Mustelidae further down. [read post]
1 Jan 2023, 6:38 pm
Pix Credit CiberCubaPix Credit Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba Orunmila! [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable onVoting Rights, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022.Sanford Levinson First I must express my continued thanks to the persons actually behind this remarkable project, Richard Albert, Ashley Moran, and Trish Do. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down Roe v. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am
National/Federal Advocates Seek Federal Investigation of Multistate Effort to Copy Voting Software MSN – Emma Brown, Aaron Davis, and Jon Swaine (Washington Post) | Published: 12/12/2022 An effort by supporters of former President Trump to copy sensitive voting software in multiple states after the 2020 election deserves attention from the federal government, including a criminal investigation and assessment of the risk posed to election security, according to election-security… [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 10:52 am
” Larry Bache successfully argued the case before the appellate court. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
Trump Mar-a-Lago Special Master Struck Down by Appeals Court MSN – Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 12/1/2022 A federal appeals court panel halted an outside review of thousands of documents seized from former President Trump’s Florida residence, ruling a lower-court judge was wrong to appoint an expert to decide whether any of the material should be shielded from criminal investigators. [read post]
