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Let’s say, hypothetically, you want to gerrymander some congressional districts to help your party win more seats. Here are a couple of options:
Do blatant partisan gerrymandering, which is cynical and corrupt but in most cases (tragically and unfortunately) perfectly legal under current US law.
Do racial gerrymandering, which will definitely get you sued and probably lose in court for violating...
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This won’t matter to Donald Trump or the dozens of administration officials who live to please him. In all likelihood, it will just lead to Trump and his administration smearing one of this nation’s allies for being weak on crime and too supportive of people who are being murdered by the US government.
But it should matter to everyone else. The United States was once the leader of the free world...
Last week we noted how the BBC has been tripping over itself to apologize to Donald Trump for some edits made to a BBC documentary. Admittedly the edits weren’t the best idea; they effectively cobbled together two different parts of Trump’s January 6 speech 54 minutes apart not to misrepresent, but to make it more clear that Trump actively encouraged an open, violent insurrection that resulted in...
It was only a few weeks ago that we wrote about a trademark dispute in the UK between a deli shop owner and a book publisher over the use of the word “sabzi.” Kate Attlee is the founder of Sabzi, the name of her deli, while Bloomsbury published a cookbook by Yasmin Khan called Sabzi: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes. Attlee threatened legal action over the title of the book, arguing that her trademark...
Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.
Ring plans to introduce a feature to its home surveillance cameras called “Familiar Faces,” to identify specific people who come into view of the camera. When turned on, the feature will scan the faces of all people...
This isn’t even the end of the fallout, but it’s a lot of it. A small Kansas town that basically conspired to silence local journalists who were asking too many questions continues to face the consequences of its actions.
That’s a relief. Far too often, power gets abused and the justice system sides with the far-more-powerful abusers. That hasn’t happened here. And maybe that’s because it...
A federal judge just ruled that computer-generated summaries of novels are “very likely infringing,” which would effectively outlaw many book reports. That seems like a problem.
The Authors Guild has one of the many lawsuits against OpenAI, and law professor Matthew Sag has the details on a ruling in that case that, if left in place, could mean that any attempt to merely summarize any copyright...
Not content to simply deport as many South American migrants from this country as possible, the Trump administration leaned into its lies about the latent threat to national security the mere existence of foreign people poses to national security.
This administration pretends everything is a “war,” even as it actively avoids seeking congressional approval to engage in acts of war. Migrants...
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