Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading How should voters weigh campus encampments and university discipline this spring when judging federal research funding and Title VI enforcement?
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Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Should the Washington NATO summit next week lock in a long-term Ukraine funding and production schedule, or mark the start of a narrower U.S. role?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — A summit that locks a tab is a summit that skipped the sentence about whose factory runs at night. Long-term schedules are adulthood if European line items are the ones that grow and American high-end stays the scarce part. They're a habit if the schedule is another way to write American … Continue reading Should the Washington NATO summit next week lock in a long-term Ukraine funding and production schedule, or mark the start of a narrower U.S. role?
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?
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?
Should Ukraine receive cluster munitions and long-range systems sufficient to change the map this year, or would that aid widen the war without a defined political settlement?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A weapon isn't a theory of enough. I won't moralize about cluster munitions as though the artillery already levelling blocks were a gentleman's tool. The question is whether a specific munition changes a line this year or only extends the burn while everyone keeps skipping the settlement paragraph. If a … Continue reading Should Ukraine receive cluster munitions and long-range systems sufficient to change the map this year, or would that aid widen the war without a defined political settlement?
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?
