Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin

It is as true now as it was then.

We do not need to go to extremes to protect ourselves from rare risks. Life is pretty darned safe already. Really, it is.

Great idea. They solicit donations on bsky, I will buy a raffle ticket next time

What about why have the Epstein files not been released as required by law?

Stop defending child rapists, shitbird.

We have this already. It's called a "press conference."

Were they Adobe or Auth0 ads?

Just wondering...

Details matter. Especially in law.

Taking notes is not illegal. Using a device to assist in taking notes is not illegal (speech to text use is ADA protected). Transcription is not the same as recording. As long as the device is not producing an audio recording, it is not recording audio. Transitory processing of audio is not the same as recording audio.

The devil is in the details, and they are carefully to stay within the letter of the law.

None of which is legally an adequate reason to remove someone's citizenship two decades or more later. Filing the wrong form would be considered a minor clerical error. It should have been rejected at the time, and she should have had to file the correct form at the time, but once citizenship is granted, that's moot.

There is a general presumption in the law that citizenship cannot be revoked unless all of the following criteria are true:

• That person misrepresented or concealed something
• The misrepresentation or concealment was willful
• The misrepresentation or concealment was material to the decision to grant citizenship

None of those apply, much less all of them. Omar did not misrepresent anything; her father did. The misrepresentation was probably not willful. See also the comments above about birth records in Somalia. And being born a year earlier is not material to the decision to grant citizenship. It is only material to whether that specific form would have been accepted or a different form would have been needed.

So absent some significant evidence that something else was omitted as a side effect of using the wrong form (which is incredibly unlikely), this would be a clerical error, subject to possible civil penalties against the father, were he still alive, and that's about it.

This isn't just a little bit short of the threshold required for removing citizenship. This is so far from reaching the threshold that even the most conservative immigration judge in the country would laugh in their faces for even making the attempt, and probably hit them with contempt charges for wasting the court's time.

'Cause even the mini pianos were too heavy.

I wonder how the Courts will interpret this in two-party consent states for phone conversations.

And since it's always on, it should be fun in two-party consent states. They claim it's simply listening and transcribing and doesn't store the conversations, but I wonder how the Courts will interpret this.

AI typically produces excessively complex code to perform tasks. Is that what you want in banking?

Laziness and abstraction layers.

In fact, we have many writings from the original authors of the US Constitution on exactly what they intended, and what they feared the unintended consequences might be. They were quite prolific in their musings. Of note is the fact that they did not all agree -they compromised.

Start with the Federalist Papers. Then read the Convention Records for Madison's notes on the arguments that occurred during the original US Constitutional convention. You can find writings by Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson preserved in the "Founders Online" collection by the US National Archives.

Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.

If only Alan Watts had known about the biological processes tied to the Schumann Resonance, 1G of gravity, and the Circadian Rhythm ... he would have come to the same conclusions.

Deep Space explorers are going to have to create mini Earths if they want to stay healthy.

This is very disappointing to the Platonists and Transhumanists.