Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It started as residuals and it won't end there. Streaming already broke the old arithmetic — fewer reruns, thinner backend, a season that's eight episodes and a hope. That fight was coming with or without a paragraph machine. The machine turned a compensation argument into a jurisdiction argument: who owns the … Continue reading Is the writers’ strike a narrow labor fight over residuals, or an early map of how generative tools will be bargained in other white-collar trades?

Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If the calendar of a case can be read like a campaign plan, the office needs a rule that can be read without a jersey. Special counsel was sold as insulation, and insulation that heats up in odd-numbered autumns isn't insulation. Reform I'd defend: charging clocks that don't allow a … Continue reading Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?

Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It settled the easy route. It didn't settle the appetite. The holding is that you don't turn a sentence in a 2003 statute about military emergencies into something like four hundred billion dollars because the podium wants a headline. A transfer that size is a bill or it's a stunt. Postponed … Continue reading Did the Court’s invalidation of the broad student-loan cancellation program settle the major-questions fight over mass debt relief, or only postpone a legislative version?

Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Yes. You took a dam off a river and left the mill race as the legal system. Ending a borrowed tool without writing a real one isn't a return to law. It's a return to the parts of the asylum statute that can't finish a case at volume, plus parole categories … Continue reading Has the end of Title 42 without a replacement statute left cities and border counties with an unworkable mix of parole, asylum backlogs, and shelter demand?

Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — Practice that guarantees everything after the fact isn't a statute. It's a habit, and habits in deposit insurance teach the next treasurer that the cap is a suggestion. The tools handled a weekend. They didn't handle the incentive, and the incentive is now public: a concentrated uninsured depositor in a … Continue reading Should Congress write a new deposit-insurance and resolution statute after the spring bank failures, or is existing FDIC practice now sufficient?

Gastonia, NC Correspondent — If the only thing that moves is the prompt, the decision got a costume rather than a compliance. The Court said race as a plus factor in the file is out. An institution that meant to comply would have to change the file — how readers are trained, what may be … Continue reading Did the Supreme Court’s decision ending race-conscious admissions require universities to change more than their essays, or will the old process continue under new labels?

Gastonia, NC Correspondent — A national stoppage isn't a seminar about feelings. It's groceries, chemicals, cars, and a plant that runs out of a part on Tuesday. The road is narrow. Force the last mile of bargaining under a clock that's real. Put the disputed items on a small table — attendance policy, time off … Continue reading How should Congress treat the pending rail-labor dispute so that a national freight stoppage is avoided without simply imposing terms that neither side will own?