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5 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING at SCOTUS: Google wins copyright battle with Oracle
Vote is 6-2, written by Justice Breyer. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Gist of ruling: Google's copying of some Oracle code to develop the operating system for its Android devices is "fair use".
Whoa, Justice Breyer brushed up on his Java in preparing this opinion. A lot of explainer passages like this paragraph.

Maybe he's contemplating a programming job after he hangs up his robes.
I mean...
Breyer even attached this appendix which he hopes some readers "might find...helpful"

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4 Apr
Some are arguing Georgia’s voting law is perfectly fine because other states have less early voting or similar rules. But Sec 2 of the VRA is about the specific circumstances in each state.
There’s no plausible way to describe George’s law other than a Republican attempt to chip away at voting opportunities for the constituencies that flipped the state blue in 2020 and 2021.
Whether that attempt will succeed in depressing the minority vote is an open question. But bad intent is enough to establish a section 2 VRA violation.
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30 Mar
A trio of lawsuits against Georgia’s new voting restrictions are well founded—but face an uphill battle. My ⁦@TheEconomist⁩ analysis economist.com/united-states/…
There are three main headwinds:
1. a kneecapped Voting Rights Act w/ a vestigial Section 5 as a result of the Shelby County decision in 2013
2. Uncertainty over the meaning of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the remaining teeth in the law which could be knocked out or filed down by a pending case that SCOTUS is set to decide in the coming months.
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30 Mar
NEW: a third lawsuit against Georgia's voting law brought by the NAACP-LDF, ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center emphasizes the harms to *all* voters in addition to the discriminatory effects and purposes against people of colour.
You can read the full complaint here: aclu.org/sites/default/…
To go along with this
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29 Mar
BREAKING: a second lawsuit is filed against SB 202, Georgia's new voting law. Georgia NAACP & other orgs allege purposeful discrimination in addition to harmful effects under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 1st, 14th and 15th amendments.
The full complaint is available here drive.google.com/file/d/13pT4Os…
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25 Mar
And she's one of three justices (along with Roberts and Barrett) who have not yet written for the October sitting.
This tweet had an even shorter shelf-life than most.
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22 Mar
Ah, the old “my defamation was too outlandish to be defamation“ defamation defense
The thing is, claiming someone is in cahoots with Venezuelan dictators is not “vituperative or abusive“ like calling someone a yellow-bellied scoundrel. It’s a highly specific defamatory factual claim.
Fox’s attorney, Paul Clement, all but threw Sidney Powell et al under the bus in his motion to dismiss the defamation suit against Fox.
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