Sotomayor writes that the court can’t update the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to protect telephone consumers from modern technology like Facebook’s, only Congress can. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
I recommend reading Alito’s concurrence about the uselessness of the series qualifier canon, which I find persuasive and frustrating.
It’s frustrating because, in p typical Alito fashion, when he senses that his logic is taking him somewhere doesn’t want to go, he just doesn’t apply his reasoning to the case.
Alito’s right that this use of the series qualifier canon is on the struggle bus. Its insistence that the law requires covered systems to “store... telephone numbers, using a random or sequential number generator” is frankly nonsense. Generators don’t store. They only produce.
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This piece rests on WaPo’s attribution of the recent surge in border crossings to Biden’s policy stances as the predominant driver of events and reticence to declare the Trump practice of expelling unaccompanied minors illegal, framing it instead as a useful but abandoned measure
Unfortunately for those arguments, WaPo published a piece that included this reporting six weeks before Biden took office. washingtonpost.com/immigration/mi…
It also seems to be WaPo’s sotto voce editorial position that “hundreds of families crowded into squalid camps” just outside US territory is a policy win, whereas letting them out of those camps and beginning a legal adjudication process is a failure.
The DC Circuit has announced that it is officially anti-Garamond.
It is possible Merrick Garland, like the little Dutch boy of legend, was holding back this tide of anti-Garamond sentiment single-handedly. Who’s to say?
ODNI report finds "prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump" were on the receiving end of "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy" pushed by Russian intelligence. dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
The ICA assesses that "Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach," a Ukrainian legislator who met with Giuliani and is believed to have supplied information to the investigation of Hunter Biden by Sens. Johnson and Grassley.
The chairmen deny relying on his info.
"Derkach, Kilimnik, and their associates... helped produce a documentary that aired on a US television network in late January 2020."
The DOD Inspector General’s report on now-Rep. Ronny Jackson found he drank and abused ambien on the job as WH Physician and disparaged, belittled, and humiliated his subordinates, as first reported by CNN. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2049…
The DOD IG decided not to interview then-current White House Military Unit staff who worked with Jackson for this report because the Trump White House Counsel’s office insisted on being present for every interview.
“When a drunk man comes to your room and they say, ‘I need you,’ your mind goes to the worst...”