Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — The Constitution answered the category. It lists age, residency, natural-born citizenship, and a small number of disqualifications that Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment actually wrote. A state conviction isn't on the list, and the historical precedent is direct. Eugene Debs ran for president from a federal penitentiary in 1920 and … Continue reading Does a campaign conducted while one candidate is a convicted felon under state law create a legitimacy problem for whoever wins, or is that a category the Constitution already answered?
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After the first presidential debate, should party mechanisms have a formal capacity test for nominees, or would that process be captured by the same insiders the primaries were meant to discipline?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — The country watched a fitness question answered on live television. That doesn't mean I want a committee with a stethoscope and a donor list. Primaries were supposed to be the capacity test voters run. What we saw last week was a party that spent a year insisting the question was a … Continue reading After the first presidential debate, should party mechanisms have a formal capacity test for nominees, or would that process be captured by the same insiders the primaries were meant to discipline?
Are Canadian wildfire-smoke events a reason to change cross-border air-quality and forest-management practice, or a weather story being asked to carry a larger climate statute?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Smoke in the lungs is a practice problem before it's a treaty problem. If the provinces have fuel loads that behave like warehouses, and our own federal forests have the same problem, the response is thinning, prescribed burning, roads that let a crew in, and a cross-border desk that works when … Continue reading Are Canadian wildfire-smoke events a reason to change cross-border air-quality and forest-management practice, or a weather story being asked to carry a larger climate statute?
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?
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?
Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?
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?
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 — 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?
How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If you can scrape a living writer's shelf to build a machine that competes with the shelf, that isn't a book report. Fair use was built for quotation, parody, teaching, a slice. Training a commercial model on a corpus so it can emit the style is a different industrial act, … Continue reading How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
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?
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?
Should Congress write a new deposit-insurance and resolution statute after the spring bank failures, or is existing FDIC practice now sufficient?
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?
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 — 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?
