A question for Law Mastodon, because I have absolutely no idea:

Does Elon Musk using Starlink to intentionally disrupt a Ukraine military operation against Russia potentially violate laws about who may conduct foreign policy? (Logan Act, Article II, whatever, who knows??)

#legal #law #uslaw

#SheldonWhitehouse

Yeeesss

Sen. Whitehouse Lodges Ethics Complaint Against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

10 min video

one of the few politicians that have long spoken on the capture (another word for usurpation in my mind) of the courts by us wealth.

https://youtu.be/rt3d9RZtIgw

#uslaw #scotus #uspol #WhatRepublic

"The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had filed charges or at least launched investigations related to roughly $8.6 billion in alleged coronavirus aid fraud since the start of the pandemic. That included hundreds of new cases, pleas, sentences and other developments secured as part of an enforcement campaign it ramped up from May through July."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/23/covid-aid-fraud-justice/

#covid #fraud #USlaw

"Plaintiffs' attorney Hawley, who is married to Sen. Josh Hawley, the Republican from Missouri, argued that physicians who oppose abortion would be facing a moral injury if they had to care for a woman who had a complication after taking mifepristone."

I suffer from moral injury knowing we have the tools to provide safe healthcare for pregnant people, but extremist politicians are preventing health professionals from using them.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/16/1194280392/ruling-deals-blow-to-access-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone-but-nothing-changes-ye

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #USlaw

Texas Prisoners DIE IN DROVES From Lack Of AC | The Kyle Kulinski Show

https://youtu.be/P4g3F0BPoQM

#texas #heatwaves #uslaw #uspol

Ah Church and State united. Christianity, not quite with a gun to your head, but freedom instead.

West Virginia can't force an atheist inmate to profess Christianity
9 min video

In order to be eligible for parole, inmate required to profess faith in God.

https://youtu.be/Yjtq96se02c

#christianity #comservatism #uslaw #uspol #fascism

"A lawsuit in Texas asserting that the state’s abortion ban imperils women by dissuading doctors from ending dangerous pregnancies could provide a template for similar challenges across the country...more than a dozen Texas women, argue that doctors and hospitals denied them necessary care because the providers were afraid to run afoul of the law."

https://stateline.org/2023/08/01/lawsuit-over-texas-abortion-ban-could-be-a-model-in-other-states/

#USpol #reproductivejustice #pregnancy #USlaw

Big media lookin to kill small media

News Giants Attempt Social Media Takeover & Family Of FTX Founder Linked To Crypto Collapse

8 min video

https://youtu.be/Dh9kqHGMw5M

#media #news #journalism #uspolitcs #uslaw

@sittiparusvarius awesome!! here are some hashtags to use:
#birds #insects #painting #landscapes #introduction #jewellery #crochet
#Korean #scifi #fantasy #environmentalscience #environment #USlaw #uspoli #videogames

White Supremacist Fatally Stabs Black Man In Public, Cops ABANDON Murder Charge

6 min video

Neglected story.

https://youtu.be/pCB8DX0dGLI

#police #law #uslaw

When #USlaw #discriminates differently against #Black #NativeAmericans
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/us/politics/freedmen-mcgirt-ruling-oklahoma.html

"In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New York cleared the way for a bankruptcy deal for opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma.

The deal will shield members of the Sackler family, who own the company, from future lawsuits...The Sacklers earned billions of dollars from the sale of OxyContin and other opioid pain medications."

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178850879/sackler-family-purdue-pharma-immunity-lawsuits-oxycontin-opioid

#publichealth #opioids #USlaw

Wondering wtf is up with #ScheduleA and #DesignPatents?

@ericgoldman has you covered in “A SAD [Schedule A Defendants Scheme] New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation” at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4381824

(thanks to @design_law for the pointer)

#USlaw #law #patents

Interesting, and surprisingly persuasive, story from Marketplace yesterday on what is the debt ceiling, the "mint the coin" proposal to solve it, etc.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/whats-really-at-the-heart-of-the-debt-limit-debate/
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#Marketplace #APM #DebtCeiling #MintTheCoin #money #uslaw #uspolitics

News of the latest #Facebook #privacy settlement is going around the Fediverse in pieces and often without hashtags to help people link up the information.

I think it's important to note that Facebook users in the USA who aren't opting out of the settlement to sue on their own may file a claim for the court-issued payment and object to the settlement.

To be clear, officially objecting does not disqualify claimants from filing for a share of the money.

https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

#Meta #USLaw

American Justice.. all up for sale

Judges Caught In "Kids For Cash" Scam With Prisons & Scientists Link Weedkiller To Convulsions

Privatization 4 U

6 min video

https://youtu.be/yYoKsyH1T5A

#uslaw #childAbuse

@staidwinnow

Oh, I forgot to include a link to the full opinion, which I finally managed to come across just a few hours ago.

I feel like so much has been said about this before the actual ruling made rounds, kind of solidifying a narrative before the evidence was in.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmojgodvr/ND%20Texas%20Abortion%20Pill%20Ruling%202023-04-07.pdf

#USPolitics #USLaw #Texas

FBI simply buys your data now. No more pesky courts.

2min video America’s Lawyer

https://youtu.be/jwp3yvonfAQ

#uspol #uslaw

More Perfect Union:

Models Tell All: Exploitation And Abuse In The Fashion Industry

9 min video

https://youtu.be/-YC1fOZV43k

#usLaw #labor

We've always taken a keen interest in the affairs of Mr. Trump, who seems to share our goal of destroying the United States. I am puzzled, however, by all today's talk about the "crime-fraud exception".

I mean, where Mr. Trump is concerned, isn't crime and fraud the rule, rather than the exception?

The American legal system is a mystery to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/20/judge-howell-ruling-trump-corcoran-testify/

#CrimeFraudException #law #USLaw #DonaldTrump #legal