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"And so a chaotic effort to overthrow the government is not an insurrection"
Justices near agreement in 14th amendment case, almost certain to overturn Colorado ruling removing Trump from ballot
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/0…

TikTok sues the US government over law forcing a sale or ban, alleging it violates users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is "simply not possible" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appeal.html…

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

TikTok sues the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban, saying it violates users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is "simply not possible" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appeal.html…

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

Anti-abortion attorneys ascend federal government ranks with Christian right legal training
The conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom’s expansive ties include  federal judges and most recently Speaker of the House
The nonprofit law firm that helped Mississippi solicitor general Scott Stewart argue and win the #Dobbs case
— the Alliance Defending Freedom
— has work…

Anti-abortion attorneys ascend federal government ranks with Christian right legal training • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The U.S. house speaker is among a number of people affiliated with a conservative group that's trying to capture the courts.

I work in technology and what I know is that companies that ride the hype bullshit train and defraud people aren’t there for long https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112230203637467513

Judge puts brakes on new law banning foreign government spending on referendums | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/judge-puts-brakes-on-new-law-banning-foreign-government-spending-o…

A Canadian minister says the country plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hac…

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.

Georgian government holds massive anti-West rally as it aims to pass 'Russian-style' law: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/georgian-government-holds.html

Q&A with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on the necessity and the difficulty of writing about structural issues like dark money, the change in SCOTUS coverage, and more (Kevin Lind/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/qa_dah

Q&A: Dahlia Lithwick on the Colorado case, the election, and the press
In 1999, Dahlia Lithwick happened to be in Washington, DC, when the federal government was suing Microsoft over antitrust violations. Lithwick had studied English at Yale, then law at Stanford, but was not finding success as a family lawyer when she received a call from a friend of a friend suggesting that she cover the […]

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
On April 7, 1933, FDR signed the law that ended the US Government Prohibition due to the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned all intoxicating liquors, including beer. Let's play!<…

Policy Forum Pod
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Podcast: Policy Forum Pod Hosts: Professor Sharon Bessell and Dr Arnagretta Hunter Category: Education Sub-Category: Government & Law, Politics, Universities & GLAM First Episode: 2016 Policy Forum…

"UK Government faces legal challenge over home energy efficiency standards"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses

UK Government faces legal challenge over home energy efficiency standards
The Good Law project has launched a legal challenge to the UK Government’s mooted plans to limit local councils from setting energy efficiency standards that go above and beyond national policy requirements.

Germany publishes law that will make E2EE mandatory for messengers and cloud
https://tuta.com/blog/german-government-publishes-encryption-law

UK selling arms to Israel - legally iffy
“A warring party becomes unlawful if it cannot show that its actions have been proportionate. ...
“Countries supplying arms to Israel may now be complicit in criminal warfare. The public should be told what the advice says.”
- Sir Geoffrey Nice, "who was the lead prosecutor at former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević’s trial from 2002 to 2006"
("advice" there means legal advice given to the UK government)
#Israel #UK #law

Congrats? I guess? #HongKong

The government of a country that UK law redefined as safe for displaced people.
Attacking displaced people next door.
US blames #Rwanda and rebels for deadly camp strike - BBC News
https://www.

US blames Rwanda and rebels for deadly camp strike
At least nine people are killed in an attack on a camp in eastern DR Congo.

GovComms: The Future Of Government Communication
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Podcast: GovComms: The Future Of Government Communication By: contentgroup Category: Business Sub-Category: Government & Law, Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2015 Through conversation with…

Due to @…’s law, you already know the answer to this question:
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-whistle

A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company and the US government are improbable. But he still may have shaped how the app is viewed in Washington.

Protest isn’t harassment, says group suing UK government over law change https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-secretary-liberty-court-anti-protest-laws-james-cleverly-suella-braverman-palestine/

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-flee-conscription-law-army-thailand-cbf9fa999b8ac828ea3710ac58b2c157

Myanmar: Many want to escape compulsory military service and flee to Thailand
Ever since Myanmar's military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks, Thwel sees very few options. The 25-year-old schoolteacher in Myanmar’s southern Mon state believes she must flee the country or face fatal consequences. She's a supporter of the Civil Disobedience Movement, which carries out nonviolent resistance to military rule. Crowds of people have thronged to get passports and visas to neighboring Thailand in the two weeks since the government activated a law maki…

Citation needed: “This fall Republicans will prove that we can win on any maps because we have the better policy ideas for the State of Wisconsin.” https://www.wpr.org/news/evers-signs-new-maps-into-law-ending-wisconsin-redistricting-lawsuit…

Evers signs new maps into law, effectively ending Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit
Gov. Tony Evers has signed new legislative maps into law, potentially loosening the GOP grip on power in Wisconsin state government for the first time in well over a decade.

UK bans devices with weak passwords
Under new rules, manufacturers must prompt users to change generic passwords during setup
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4202793/uk-bans-devices-weak-passwords

UK bans devices with weak passwords
The government has enacted a law that bans internet-connected devices from having weak default passwords.

“Unlike the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, those who do not vote or refrain from voting do not threaten violence. Nor do they obstruct the functioning of a governmental institution.
Yet through their inaction, they too impair the political freedom of America that arises from the democratic character of its government and thus violate their elemental duty of citizenship.
We vote to preserve democracy and thus our own freedom.”

Professor Owen M. Fiss on the Importance of Voting
In Why We Vote, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss stresses the importance of voting and examines Supreme Court cases that sought to enlarge the freedom that democracy generates, emphasizing that it's the Court's responsibility to uphold the democratic ideal of the Constitution.

The government of a country that UK law redefined as safe for displaced people.
Attacking displaced people next door.
US blames #Rwanda and rebels for deadly camp strike - BBC News
https://www.

US blames Rwanda and rebels for deadly camp strike
At least nine people are killed in an attack on a camp in eastern DR Congo.

Under Netanyahu, Israel has become a pariah state that deliberately and maliciously undermines international rule of law. The rest of the world needs to treat it accordingly until an Israeli government decides to respect the UN, the ICJ, and other agencies and bodies.
Israel lodges proposal with UN for dismantling of Palestinian relief agency

Forget "banning" whatever social media company your gov doesn't like, THIS is what a responsible gov does.
"The government says in a statement that the law would provide a way for it to go after social media companies for the harms their algorithms cause people, especially kids.”
Social Media is causing mental, physical, and societal harm.
Governments have a primary responsibilty to protect their citizens.

"Netanyahu has till Sunday evening to present a fix to Israel’s controversial conscription law. If he fails, his government likely fails with him."
How ultra-Orthodox conscription could destroy Benjamin Netanyahu - Vox
https://www.vox.com/polit…

How ultra-Orthodox conscription could destroy Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu has till Sunday evening to present a fix to Israel’s controversial conscription law. If he fails, his government likely fails with him.

Finally, a good news story. The law included healthcare and education workers, including teachers.
'Ontario Premier Doug Ford's law that imposed wage restraint on public sector workers violated their collective bargaining rights and is unconstitutional, the province's Appeal Court ruled Monday.
The law, known as Bill 124, capped salary increases for public sector workers to one per cent a year for three years.'

Ontario Court of Appeal rules Ford government's Bill 124 unconstitutional | CBC News
An Ontario law that imposed wage restraint on public sector workers violated their collective bargaining rights and is unconstitutional, the province's Court of Appeal ruled Monday, a decision many labour groups called a major victory.

Lockbit is back, no doubt with russian support because it's goals overlap with Putin's , fighting the FBI is in Russia's interest, also the founder votes for Trump in case anybody was wondering about that.
https://www.bleepingcomput…

LockBit ransomware returns, restores servers after police disruption
The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked their servers, and is threatening to focus more of their attacks on the government sector.

Kijk nou, de voordelen van het afschaffen van Europese aanbestedingsregels.
Totaal corrupt. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/111924901649487305

Government watchdog alleges Trump campaign broke the law trying to hide legal payments (Zac Anderson/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/donald-trump-campaign-legal-bills-complaint/73444749007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p99#a240424p99

"The central question that arises from this is of a constitutional nature, and is, in jurisprudential terms, as fascinating as it is new: is it acceptable, necessary even, to break the law in order to restore the rule of law?" - @…

“Slavery was a complex multistate system enabled by the federal government and protected by a sweeping body of law. The same government later promoted and propped up segregationist policies and failed to uphold the values of the 14th and 15th amendments across the Jim Crow South. To address systemic inequalities rooted in federal law, a federal reparations policy is required.”

Opinion | Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue
Federal reparations would help redress both the grievances of American history and the racial inequities that still define the present.

Banks 🧐
Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7178886

Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used Pegasus spyware illegally against a "very long" list of hacking victims (Vanessa Gera/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poland-gove

Poland's prime minister says authorities widely used spyware under the previous government
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of victims. Tusk made the comment during a news briefing alongside President Andrzej Duda, a political opponent. The use of Pegasus was alleged to have occurred under a government led by Law and Justice, a right-wing party with which Duda is aligned. Tusk said he was sharing information with Duda that…

Florida is continuing to “callously” strip healthcare coverage from thousands of children in
lower-income households
💥in defiance of a new federal law intended to protect them.💥
👉Since 1 January, more than 22,500 children have been disenrolled from Florida KidCare,
its version of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip) that is jointly subsidized by states and the US government for families with earnings just above the threshold for Medicaid.
Florida healt…

Public officials can be held liable for blocking critics on social media
"The court’s decisions came in a pair of cases, involving local officials in California and Michigan who blocked constituents who made repetitive and critical comments on their personal social media accounts."
#law #socialmedia

With apologies to The Angels…
No way, get f*****, f**k off.
https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112324992539325968

#Health insurers have been increasing top-tier #premiums at far higher rates than those approved by government—30% on average over the last three years, versus the 8.6% regulatory cap—yet, #Private

Health insurers accused of charging more for top-level hospital cover than price cap set by federal government
A report from consumer group Choice claims health insurers have been increasing premiums for top-tier hospital cover by more than three times the amount set by the federal government in the past three years without breaking the law.

As an election approaches listen out for all those local rail reopening projects! "Draft rail reform bill published ‘fittingly late’, Labour says" #GBR #BritishRail

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hacking-f-1851242790

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.

The National Security Podcast
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Podcast: The National Security Podcast By: ANU National Security College Category: Education Sub-Category: Government & Law, Politics, Universities & GLAM First Episode: 2018 The ANU National Security…

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hacking-f-1851242790

A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges
Donald Trump's 2024 White House campaign and its related political committees
engaged in a 🔸scheme to conceal who is being paid for much of the former president's legal work
🔸in a possible violation of federal law.
The complaint filed Wednesday by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit government watchdog,
centers on a company called

Government watchdog alleges Trump campaign broke the law trying to hide legal payments
The complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center alleges payments to Red Curve Solutions seem "designed to obscure" who is being paid for legal work.

"In 2011, the government’s Prevent strategy defined extremism as the 'active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs'."
Which party is it that wants to subvert democracy by requiring #VoterID in order to exclude the young and poor from voting?

Discussions of inheritance taxation often ignore that fact that, under US law, death is a wealth enhancing event. The government provides heirs with subsidies that increase with wealth.
The best known heir-subsidy is the increase in basis on inherited property. When computing capital gains, heirs use the value of the property at time of death. So, a sale of property before one's death might be heavily tax but one's heirs might sell the same property tax-free. Not fair.
<…

Making a case for the inheritance tax (with David Stasavage) - Pitchfork Economics
Over the next two decades, $30 trillion of wealth is expected to be transferred from Baby Boomers to their heirs. Journalists and financial experts have been referring to this event as the “Great Wealth Transfer,” and it's important that we understand the policies that make such a monumental transferral of generational wealth possible—not to mention the tremendous economic and societal implications of this unprecedented economic activity. In this episode, we have the privilege of speaking…

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard boarded and seized MSC Aries, an Israeli-affiliated shipping vessel, near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning local time.
No government other than the gov't of Israel have straight-up called this an "act of piracy" in violation of int'l law.

Enforce privacy laws! Enforce monopoly laws! Enforce NEW security laws!
The giant corporation "responsible" for handling our "private" data is UnitedHealth Group Incorporated. Their market capitalization is almost $.5 trillion. They can be forced by law, to spend $billions on new computer information security measures. Then they can afford to be broken into smaller, more responsible, corporations.

Banks 🧐
Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7178886

Your periodic reminder that *any* statute, law, ordinance, policy or other law or law-derivative that singles out any group of easily identifiable people, like #trans ppl, and subjects them to punishment or deprivation is unconstitutional.
Article I, sections 9/10, forbids 'bills of attainder', the anachronistic term for the use of government power to target and discriminate at the fed…

Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator (Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trudeau to Force Big Tech to Police ‘Harmful’ Online Content
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced an online safety law, joining European countries in trying to compel internet companies to actively regulate and remove harmful content.

The UK proposes a new law banning foreign states and officials from holding direct stakes in newspapers, putting the UAE-backed bid for the Telegraph at risk (Jane Croft/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar

The National Security Podcast
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Podcast: The National Security Podcast By: ANU National Security College Category: Education Sub-Category: Government & Law, Politics, Universities & GLAM First Episode: 2018 The ANU National Security…

‘It isn’t acceptable’: Garrick Club remains a bastion of male elitism | Men | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/garrick-club-bastion-male-elitism

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hacking-f-1851242790

Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.

UK protest law - good article from Natasha Walter
"If you refuse to engage with those who are seeking change, it doesn’t make the causes of their actions go away. We can still see the floods, feel the heatwaves, read the research, watch the news and recognise that our government is not moving in the direction that we need."
#UKLaw #climate #protest

Wyoming Governor vetoes bill on concealed carry of guns in public schools
The Republican governor of Wyoming, Mark Gordon, has vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed guns in public schools and government meetings.
In his veto letter Friday night, Gordon said he had concerns the bill would exceed the separation-of-powers provision in the state constitution since any policy, further regulation or clarification of the law could only be implemented by the Wyo…

Split Tales
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Podcast: Split Tales By: Split Tales Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Finance & Investing, Government & Law, Personal Stories, Sexuality & Relationships First Episode: 2023 Split Tales shares…

Ireland and Nato enter new agreement to counter Russia threat – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/02/09/ireland-enters-wide-ranging-agreement-with-nato-aimed-at-countering-r…

Ireland and Nato enter new agreement to counter Russia threat
Deal gives Ireland greater access to Nato resources, including intelligence, but is not a step towards full membership, Government insists

"Humza Yousaf, who succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as first minister and as SNP leader, has put less emphasis on #climate action, despite its significance in the deal with the Greens.
1/2
#Scotland’s pledge to cut emissions by 75% by 2030 ‘no longer credible’ | Green politics | The Guardian

Donald Trump is going to quickly realize that all the tricks he's used to survive politically are not going to help him get out of a criminal trial, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday
"Once this moves into a court of law proper, he won't be able to say and do the things that he has been saying and doing to tear down our institutions of government day in and day out.
And once the rules of law and procedure and evidence apply,…

Trump is going 'down in flames' when 'powerful' evidence hits at trial: ex-prosecutor
Donald Trump is going to quickly realize that all the tricks he's used to survive politically are not going to help him get out of a criminal trial, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday.This comes amid reporting that the former president's allies are fearful abou...

Good Morning #Canada
The Dominion Lands Act was passed by the Canadian Government on April 14, 1872. The law was designed to encourage the settlement of the Canadian Prairies and to help prevent the area being claimed by the United States. The Ontario version (1868) brought my paternal grandfather from Pennsylvania to North Bay, and my wife's father from Czechoslovakia to Kapuskasing.
#CanadaIsAwesome #homesteading #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dominion-lands-policy

Mushroom Case Daily
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Podcast: Mushroom Case Daily Host: Kristian Silva Category: News & Current Affairs Sub-Category: Government & Law, True Crime & Investigations First Episode: 2024 Once the proceedings begin…

Persons Of Interest
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Podcast: Persons Of Interest Host: Sandra Di Girolamo Category: News & Current Affairs Sub-Category: Government & Law, True Crime & Investigations First Episode: 2024 From murderers to money…

UK government nonsense
An article mainly about Home Office staff doing crimes, but the line which caught my eye was
"The government’s safety of Rwanda bill, which states that Rwanda is a safe country..."
What a spooky rejection of the very concept of reality. It's like something out of "1984".
What next, a law that says no-one in the UK is currently hungry? or that gravity is halved? or that covid no longer exists?
#UK #government #WishfulThinking #nonsense

WorkSafe HSR Podcast
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Podcast: WorkSafe HSR Podcast By: WorkSafe Victoria Category: Business Sub-Category: Government & Law, Health & Wellness First Episode: 2024 WorkSafe Victoria is proud to launch the HSR Podcast series.

The Deal Room
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Podcast: The Deal Room Host: Joanna Oakey Category: Business Sub-Category: Finance & Investing, Government & Law First Episode: 2017 Welcome to Australia’s First and Only Mergers and Acquisitions…

F! It!
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F! It! | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: F! It! Host: Julie Ballangarry Category: News & Current Affairs Sub-Category: Culture & Identity, Government & Law, Politics First Episode: 2024 IWDA is proud to present F! It!