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Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Carr, Trump threaten broadcasters unconstitutionally, experts attest, but the play's the thing

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Late last week, on Sunshine Week , former Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) officials, civil society organizations, and First Amendm...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Did Donald Trump go to prep school with Citizen Kane?

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I just re-watched the masterpiece  Citizen Kane  (1941) , and a line I'd never noticed before dropped my jaw. I'm teaching a seminar...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Whitman: Failing rule of law in America means, if not civil war, ever more dismal standards of living, dying

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Whitman speaks in Montreal. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Professor James Q. Whitman , Yale Law, just concluded an extraordinary lecture o...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Gutting consumer protection is not libertarian

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The Trump administration is gutting consumer protection upon a policy at odds with market freedom. Moves such as the dismantling of the Cons...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

'Take It Down' Act purports to redress revenge porn, but invites censorship by only incentivizing take-down

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Derived from Google Gemini, RJ Peltz-Steele CC0 President Trump signed into law bipartisan federal revenge porn legislation Monday—alas, not...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Are we at the end of 'Bretton Woods'?: White House reconsiders post-WWII world financial system

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Omni Mount Washington, Bretton Woods RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 "Bretton Woods," I said. "Are you sure it's still on...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Law students Costa, Osuagwu talk first 100 days

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Costa & Osuagwu ( WGBH ) Thrilled to see two of my star 1Ls/rising 2Ls, Cameron Costa and BJ Osuagwu , just finishing Torts II, represe...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Big Law cowardice calls legal licensure into question

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The WAMU podcast 1A put on an excellent show Monday on the White House threats against law firms. The show featured Princeton University ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Government used soccer tattoo, 'rock'n'roll salute' as evidence against Venezuelan deportee, lawyer asserts

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According to his lawyer, a tattoo and a hand gesture are the sum of evidence against at least one Venezuelan man who was deported to the El ...
Friday, March 7, 2025

FOIA committee meets after firing of National Archivist

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Yesterday, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , on which I am privileged to serve, held a public meeting, available o...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Civil conflict in Mali devastates innocents, while indifference, deference to Russia undermine U.S. policy

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U.N. peacekeepers, here a Togolese soldier near Mopti in 2018, provided enough security for local markets to function. MINUSMA (UN Mission i...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Free Syria regime stands at crossroads

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A lone demonstrator outside my local city hall today, in Barrington, Rhode Island, is getting plenty of horn honks for his sign, "Celeb...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

1901: Disgruntled laborer shoots, kills President

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Assassination of President McKinley by T. Dart Walker, c. 1905 Library of Congress In Buffalo , New York, this week, I felt obliged by recen...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

'Statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country'

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"The statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country," former President and Republican presidential front-runner Dona...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Grand juror in Ga. Trump probe says little

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Pres. Trump leaves Marietta, Georgia, in January 2021. Trump White House Archives via Flickr (public domain) The news is ablaze with the ...