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?
Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Independence Day 2023 Champagne Summit
Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. July 5, 2023—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its Independence Day Champagne Summit held in Orlando on July 4, 2023. Participants included correspondents from Dayton, Ohio; Novi, Michigan; Clermont, Florida; and Gastonia, North Carolina. The Summit examined regional-bank … Continue reading Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Independence Day 2023 Champagne Summit
The 17th Annual Robert M. Clinger III Invitational Golf Tournament
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 17th Annual Robert M. Clinger III Invitational Golf Tournament Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, February 21, 2023—The 17th Annual Robert M. Clinger III Invitational was held on Monday, February 20, 2023 at The Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Competition commenced shortly after 12:00 PM with a shotgun … Continue reading The 17th Annual Robert M. Clinger III Invitational Golf Tournament
Did the midterm elections produce a durable shift in the balance between federal and state authority on major social questions?
Wheeling, WV Correspondent — No, and the result makes that clearer than a different result would have. A narrow House majority for one party and a Senate that moved the other way is the definition of an outcome that settles nothing. Nothing structural passes for two years, which by default leaves questions where they currently … Continue reading Did the midterm elections produce a durable shift in the balance between federal and state authority on major social questions?
Is the increasing use of secondary sanctions and financial exclusion as foreign-policy tools creating long-term risks to the dollar’s reserve status?
Sydney, Australia Correspondent — These tools are powerful because the dollar and the clearing system are central, and overuse teaches targets and neutrals to build alternatives. What happened this year is a genuine escalation. Freezing a major central bank's reserves is a different order of action from sanctioning individuals, and every reserve manager in the … Continue reading Is the increasing use of secondary sanctions and financial exclusion as foreign-policy tools creating long-term risks to the dollar’s reserve status?
