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[ad_1] A key paragraph from Tuesday’s opinion in Scott v. Ill. Hum. Rts. Comm’n, decided by Justice Rena Van Tine, joined by Justices David Ellis and Debra Walker: In his response, attorney Cole says that he “want[s] to completely avoid legalese and speak directly to this Court.” We will speak directly to him: this is unacceptable. Attorney Cole’s response should have included scrupulously accurate and precise citations. Instead, it is yet another sloppy filing that misstates the law and creates more work for this court. We do not know why attorney Cole feels compelled to rush out obviously flawed filings,…

[ad_1] As Disability Pride Month comes to a close, the Trump administration has marked the occasion by making it difficult-to-impossible for disabled federal workers to do their work. Workers from multiple agencies allege that the Trump administration has been systematically denying or stalling accommodation requests and rescinding telework as an accommodation. Several employees say they have faced retaliation for requesting telework accommodations in the first place. When the second Trump administration took office, one of its first moves was to mandate a return to in-person work for federal workers. While the order noted that the memorandum should be “implemented consistent…

[ad_1] By themselves, license plates, which debuted in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, are pretty low-tech. But when combined with a network of AI-assisted automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), those aluminum rectangles stamped with numbers and letters become tracking devices that can provide a comprehensive history of a driver’s movements, potentially revealing sensitive information about his habits, health, relationships, political affiliations, and religious beliefs. Police departments across the country nevertheless deploy such systems and routinely search the information they collect without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, a warrant, or any sort of judicial supervision. Police in…

[ad_1] They were killed by the oligarchs and empire managers whose decisions sent them to die in yet another middle eastern war based on lies, and who will never lose a wink’s sleep over it. Reading by Tim Foley: More US troops have died in Trump’s insane war of aggression against Iran, so of course we’re seeing a bunch of phony bullshit from American warmongers about what a heroic sacrifice these soldiers made in order to justify further escalations. “Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve,” tweeted Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in response to the news that two US troops were killed…

[ad_1] Paul Skalnik’s resume was long. At different times throughout his life, he was a Southwest Airlines executive, a high-powered attorney, a Vietnam War hero, and one of the most prolific jailhouse snitches in American history. Even more impressive is that only the latter was actually true. How is it possible for those things to coexist? Such is one question at the heart of Catch the Devil, the New York Times best-selling book by Pamela Colloff. The author chronicles Skalnik’s storied career as prosecutors’ trusted tool for securing dozens of convictions—despite that the state was well aware Skalnik himself was a…

[ad_1] Will reports of foreign influence campaigns be used to discredit valid criticisms of artificial intelligence? Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to a March 2026 Gallup poll, which found that majorities of Democrats (75 percent) and Republicans (63 percent) would oppose construction of an AI data center where they live. Overall, 71 percent of those surveyed expressed opposition to data center construction, a significantly greater figure than the 53 percent who said they would oppose a nuclear power plant being built near them. But that opposition is not necessarily as straightforward as it seems, at least according…

[ad_1] From today’s opinion in Whateley v. Lackey, written by Fourth Circuit Judge Pamela Harris and joined by Judges Agee and Keenan: In Virginia, drivers may personalize their license plates with their own chosen character combinations. Virginia allows them to do so for a fee, and subject to certain restrictions for vulgarity and the like. Curtis Whateley took advantage of this opportunity and applied for a personalized license plate with the characters “FTP&ATF”—by which he meant, “Fuck the Police & Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.” Virginia first issued the plate but then revoked it on the grounds that it was vulgar…

[ad_1] From Lento Law Group PC v. Estrada, decided last week by Judge Mia Roberts Perez (E.D. Pa.): This case involves negative online reviews posted by a client who retained Plaintiffs Lento Law Group PC and Lento Law Firm (together, “Lento Law”) as counsel in two legal matters in the fall of 2024. Dissatisfied with Lento Law’s communication, advice, and representation, Defendant Kris Emmanuel Estrada wrote critical reviews on multiple online platforms asserting Lento Law was unprofessional, unethical, and uncommunicative, and that it altogether provided inadequate legal services. Lento Law holds itself out as a national law firm specializing in…

[ad_1] We have been ambushed. We should be talking about the dangerous, destabilizing things being done to this country. We should be talking about the data centers spreading across the landscape, draining electricity and water, straining local infrastructure and expanding the technological machinery needed to track, profile and control the population. We should be talking about the government’s growing network of detention centers and its family-separation policies, which have resulted in an estimated 145,000 American children experiencing the detention of at least one parent—including more than 22,000 U.S.-citizen children whose entire household of co-resident parents has been detained. We should…

[ad_1] Sen. Rand Paul has pointed to a line in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary to claim that the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately “knew” in January 2020 that the coronavirus did not come from a wet market, saying this contradicted Fauci’s public statements regarding a natural origin of the virus. That misconstrues Fauci’s original statement. The origin of the virus that causes COVID-19 hasn’t been definitively proven, so the question remains open. But the scientific evidence supports a natural spillover from an infected animal to humans rather than a leak from a lab.…