“The big tech companies like to see themselves as invested in spreading knowledge and curiosity. In fact in order to survive they must promote stupidity. The tech oligarchs have just as much of a stake in the ignorance of the population as the most reactionary feudal autocrat.“
11.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Opinion | The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do
The justices and the American people must hold the line together.
“If the administration continues its defiance, including by potentially defying an even more direct and clear ruling from the nation’s highest court, then the country will face its greatest test to the rule of law since the Civil War.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
19.04.2025 13:20 — 👍 905 🔁 305 💬 45 📌 9
“ … Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” (L. Hand)
31.03.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“It is the president’s deliberate intent to chill the nation’s largest law firms from representing cases that he dislikes”
29.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
But law firms are also supposed to care about the rule of law
25.03.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unlike Polish law firms during PiS government American law firms are much more cautious
25.03.2025 07:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One big law firm objects to Trump. Another bends the knee. wapo.st/41ZOcTB
25.03.2025 07:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
07.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 6275 🔁 3244 💬 209 📌 612
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic…
Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
09.03.2025 20:38 — 👍 2647 🔁 854 💬 199 📌 64
Opinion | If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What? (Gift Article)
Judges are constrained in their ability to make the president obey their orders.
“If the Trump administration chooses to defy court orders, we will have a constitutional crisis not seen before. Perhaps public opinion will turn against the president … Or perhaps, after 238 years, we will see the end of government under the rule of law. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
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