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Harvard Law Today: “Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, and …
ACLU: “Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks to a combination of government overreach and technocratic infrastructure choices. Most Americans have a smartphone, and the average American …
404 Media / no paywall: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently invited staff to demos of an app that lets officers instantly scan a license plate, adding it to a database of billions of records that shows where else that vehicle has been spotted around the country, according to internal agency material viewed by 404 …
Follow up to previous post – Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching – See Also 404 Media / no paywall: “The IRS accessed a database of hundreds of millions of travel records, which show when and where a specific person flew and the credit card they used, without …
Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six …
Ongoing History of Protest Music – “Since there has always been social injustice in the world, there have always been people protesting many social ills. In many instances, people express oppression through chants and songs. Notable examples include Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (based on the Friedrich Schiller poem “Ode to Freedom”), which supported universal brotherhood …
The Verge: “Documents released by the House Oversight Committee shed light on Epstein’s day-to-day, largely via email — including his preoccupation with his Google presence…” See also The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency See also via beSpacific – Epstein’s Inbox – A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets …
The Government Lawyers Database [GLOW] is a publicly accessible record of the legal professionals who are or were involved in representing or supporting the legal positions of the US Executive Branch. The database is a work-in-progress. It’s the first-ever public record of U.S. Executive Branch attorneys’ conduct. The core problem: Government lawyers have a fundamental …
PBS: Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to U.S. cities have sparked a debate over their legality. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Frank Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, which …
ProPublica: “When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television. He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said, …
PEN America: “In response to the alarming rise of abuse and threats targeting journalists, PEN America and the Coalition Against Online Violence have released a groundbreaking guide, Best Practices for News Organizations: How to Protect and Support Journalists Harassed Online, to empower industry leaders to protect their people amidst an escalating crackdown on the free …
Washington Post via MSN: “The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys since the start of the Trump administration and has backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, with the process snarled by a lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays and hiring freezes, according to people familiar with hirings in the department. Last year, …
