Links

Lawfare Media: What Justice Scalia Thought About Whether Presidents Are “Officers of the United States” – In a 2014 concurrence and a short letter elaborating on it, Scalia indicated that the president was an “officer of the United States.”

Seth Godin nails it again, identifying powers that we all have but might not be aware of:

The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to lead, to encourage, to vote, to connect, to organize, to march, to write, to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’.

https://seths.blog/2024/01/unaware/

James Gallagher’s post on “The indie web” is getting some notice, but here is the quote I like the best: “The indie web is all about people sharing what they want to share and doing so on their own platform.” That is what I try to do with every post! Keep it up, James!

The Fulcrum: Scholars unmask Trump election lawyers’ use of falsified evidence – Study finds a cottage industry of bogus claims and statistics – the post links to a working paper (Dropbox link to PDF) analyzing 38 claims of election fraud “…Regardless of the reason why, every claim we analyze fails to provide evidence of illegality or fraud.” (page 3) (via Election Law Blog)

Arizona Republic editorial: Title: “Stay in this race, Nikki Haley, and make Donald Trump set himself on fire” – offers a speech that Nikki Haley could give to really enrage Trump, best quote is this one after the suggested speech: “That should do it. That should ignite the afterburners in Trump’s ears and eye sockets.”

CNN: Jury finds Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll (Love it!) (link is to CNN live blog of coverage for 1/26/2024, includes a lot of quotes from E. Jean Carroll’s closing statements).

New York Times: “Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election” by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman – Gives an overview of how state legislators could direct electors on how to cast their electoral votes, and some ideas to stop this. I would say this could happen – let’s be careful out there!