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19 Jan 2023, 12:09 pm by Corynne McSherry
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 by Jim Sedor
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 by Guest Blogger
            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 by Guest Blogger
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 by Eric Segall
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]
6 Jan 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
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]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
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]
15 Dec 2022, 8:04 am by Jim Sedor
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]
9 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
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]
5 Dec 2022, 1:48 pm by Ilya Somin
None has defined constitutional deviancy nearly as far down as Trump. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 12:12 am by Florian Mueller
" I would compare this to the sitaution at Google, where long-time non-founder CEO Eric Schmidt quipped that "adult supervision" was no longer needed when he stepped down and founder Larry Page took over.At the current FTC, it is Mrs. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court struck down limits in place for two decades that barred federal candidates from raising money indefinitely to pay off personal loans. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 4:14 am by Emma Snell
Radina Gigova, Larry Register and Tara Subramaniam report for CNN. [read post]
25 Nov 2022, 7:31 am
The rest is the stuff of melodrama.Anwar was freed in 2004 after Malaysia's top court overturned his sodomy conviction, a year after Mahathir stepped down as prime minister after 22 years in power. [read post]