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#statutes — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #statutes, aggregated by home.social.

  1. theconversation.com/us-israeli. "Donald #Trump neither tried to obtain #Congressional approval, nor did he pursue a [UNSC] #resolution ahead of these actions. And the attack has come in the middle of talks between #Tehran & #Washington. The facts are clear. This is an #illegal #war, both in terms of US #law & #international #statutes."

  2. #US. #District #Judge #ThomasParker, a #Trump #appointee, #ruled the #dragban “is an #unconstitutional #restriction on #speech.”

    The District Attorney wrote in a three-page “#notice” addressed to #BlountPride organizers and distributed to local #law #enforcement, “however if sufficient #evidence is presented to this office that the #unconstitutional #criminal #statutes have been #violated, our office will ethically and justly prosecute these cases in the interest of justice.”

  3. Carlson mused, “It does seem like #anarcho-#tyranny is one of these ideas, you know, that some political philosopher thought up a long time ago.”

    Well, no. The expression belongs to #Sam #Francis—the late #paleoconservative columnist whose disgust with establishment Republicans, managerial elites (of any party), and the idea of a majority-minority America has led him to be widely cited by intellectuals of the #MAGA movement.

    Francis’ idea was not that anarcho- tyranny was an age-old problem, but rather that it was the product of an “entirely new form of government” that was “unique in human history.”

    In a 1994 article, Francis proclaimed that a first-of-its-kind “Hegelian synthesis” had been created by the upper class as the 20th century closed. This perversion forced the aggrieved masses to live under both anarchy and tyranny at once.

    Here, he suggested, was a government imposing on "us" while allowing "them" to do as they pleased.

    And the identities of us and them were clear: Francis wrote from a home office that was once #Robert #E. #Lee’s childhood bedroom. He was pushed out of the right-wing Washington Times in 1995 for, essentially, being #too #bigoted. He obsessed over any restrictions that could touch a middle-class white person: #speed #limits, the #tax #code, #gun #laws, and even #child #porn #statutes.

    But he often ignored other oppressions enforced by the state: #slavery, #Jim #Crow, and generations of deliberate #economic #dispossession.

  4. Kid is going to kindergarten in #florida and I got an email from the school about #textbook adoption.

    I admit I haven't been paying as close attention to anything other than the news articles-- but as we know the real stuff is in the #statutes, not the #media.

    Can those familiar with how these are being implemented/enforced please help me with responding to this the email from the school.
    🧵
    cc: #blackmastodon #queer #boost #DeSantis #school #equality #transrights #queerrights #gayrights

  5. Meet The #Judges Sitting For The #SupremeCourt #SameSexMarriage #Hearing

    The #petitioners seeking to move the #court for a broader interpretation of #marriage have challenged legislation governing it. The petitioners are challenging the #HinduMarriageAct, the #SpecialMarriageAct, the #ForeignMarriageAct, and the #CitizenshipAct for a more liberal reading of these #statutes to give same-sex marriages the same status #heterosexual #marriages enjoy in #India.

    shethepeople.tv/news/supreme-c

  6. Turns out #GPT4 helps understand/simplify statutory language:

    In #lawschool, my prof — a non-technical person — suggested breaking down #statutes into IF THEN statements.

    As a litigator/lawyer, I've found the practice very helpful — helping me (and clients + courts + juries) to better conceptualize [poorly drafted/structured] statutes.

    GPT-4 does really well at this! (See screenshots)

    P.S. @lexpedite , have you experimented with this?

  7. @dynaml

    If you work for an agency you should always read a copy of their #budget, their #statutes, and #regulations. Outside the current political environment that’s all they care about at the top.

  8. New study: 48% of 204 states & jurisdictions do NOT have a "minimally viable" #OpenAccess database of their #statutes.
    doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac032

    A database of statutes was considered minimally viable when it was "(i) provided online & free for all without…registration or payment, (ii) searchable [by] statutes’ titles, (iii) searchable [by] full texts…, (iv) provided in a reusable text-based format & (v) comprehensive in its coverage of at least the laws currently in force."

    #law

  9. Auditing the public inputs and outputs of #Liz #cheney 's bank account reveal that she's gained considerable wealth from public service.

    Beyond that, she's also on record committing crimes defined by the #Rome #Statutes of the ICC, article 5.

    6 min
    youtu.be/cCvMat-VRJk

  10. CW: British Law Query

    It has become very obvious that the #English and #US legal systems, despite their shared roots in #CommonLaw, have almost 250 years of diverging #Precedents and #Statutes.

    I have never heard of anything in #England like the #Discovery in the #USA

    How much should I trust an #English #Barrister when they comment on a #US #Trial?

  11. Meet The #Judges Sitting For The #SupremeCourt #SameSexMarriage #Hearing

    The #petitioners seeking to move the #court for a broader interpretation of #marriage have challenged legislation governing it. The petitioners are challenging the #HinduMarriageAct, the #SpecialMarriageAct, the #ForeignMarriageAct, and the #CitizenshipAct for a more liberal reading of these #statutes to give same-sex marriages the same status #heterosexual #marriages enjoy in #India.

    shethepeople.tv/news/supreme-c

  12. Meet The #Judges Sitting For The #SupremeCourt #SameSexMarriage #Hearing

    The #petitioners seeking to move the #court for a broader interpretation of #marriage have challenged legislation governing it. The petitioners are challenging the #HinduMarriageAct, the #SpecialMarriageAct, the #ForeignMarriageAct, and the #CitizenshipAct for a more liberal reading of these #statutes to give same-sex marriages the same status #heterosexual #marriages enjoy in #India.

    shethepeople.tv/news/supreme-c

  13. Meet The #Judges Sitting For The #SupremeCourt #SameSexMarriage #Hearing

    The #petitioners seeking to move the #court for a broader interpretation of #marriage have challenged legislation governing it. The petitioners are challenging the #HinduMarriageAct, the #SpecialMarriageAct, the #ForeignMarriageAct, and the #CitizenshipAct for a more liberal reading of these #statutes to give same-sex marriages the same status #heterosexual #marriages enjoy in #India.

    shethepeople.tv/news/supreme-c