If you have today's NY Times you can read the obituary I wrote for my dad. I buried him today :-( I will return to lamenting the awful things happening in our world but at the moment I can only think about this one.
How many Dred Scotts does Roberts plan to have to his name?
Maybe we should not have made an ineligible insurrectionist President.
Flashback to this earlier comment on the subject: [www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/w...](
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When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
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The argument that Musk might face *personal* liability for some of the shit he did in government should get renewed interest right about now.
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When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
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Today is World Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day. As a reminder, you know someone with it: [www.techdirt.com/2024/11/04/a...](
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A Bad Year For Catherines
I have no particular interest in the British royal family, but nevertheless I’ll be forever grateful to Princess Kate for telling the world about...
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A Bad Year For Catherines
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I have a new post on Techdirt about the Privacy Act litigation with respect to DOGE attacking the Social Security Administration, but in it I highlight a court's observation that there's a "probable cause" problem with what DOGE wants to do. [www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/e...](
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Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare
This post is about two things: that it looks like DOGE has violated an injunction, at least in spirit if not letter, and why it matters. The injunc...
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Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare
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So Musk is actively trying to kill our foreign service workers. All of our diplomats and staff in Juba, Sudan, live on a single compound. Today they woke up to find that all the vendors who provide them clean water, food, fuel, Internet, cell service, etc. ALL GOT TERMINATION LETTERS.
I dunno, guys, but maybe it wasn't a good idea to put a guy notorious for not paying his bills in charge of paying the country's...