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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner
78 posts
2025-08-15
Note: When thinking about justices' statements and public votes on applications, there are sometimes incentives to keep it off the docket if they think the merits issue could be coming soon.  (I'm thinking particularly about the Dem appointees here.)  —  Also: There are other big pending applications.
2025-08-15 View on X
New York Times

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks

Also: There are other big pending applications. Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor : It's absurd.  SCOTUS has held that even temporary violations of the First Amendment constitute irrep...

2025-07-09
Linda Yaccarino followed quickly behind.
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

2025-07-05
Bondi's letters are absurd or horrifying, there is no third option.  —  What's more alarming, with that in mind, is that the general counsel of some of the largest companies in the country said, “Sure, we'll take this,” and the companies kept TikTok in their app stores.
2025-07-05 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can clai...

Bondi's “reasoning” if you can call it that, is, essentially, the end of separation of powers.  There is not just a unitary executive — there is a unitary government.  —  Congress's determination in the TikTok law — signed by the president and upheld by SCOTUS — is meaningless if Trump says otherwise. …
2025-07-05 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can clai...

2025-07-04
Bondi's letters are absurd or horrifying, there is no third option.  —  What's more alarming, with that in mind, is that the general counsel of some of the largest companies in the country said, “Sure, we'll take this,” and the companies kept TikTok in their app stores.
2025-07-04 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

Bondi's “reasoning” if you can call it that, is, essentially, the end of separation of powers.  There is not just a unitary executive — there is a unitary government.  —  Congress's determination in the TikTok law — signed by the president and upheld by SCOTUS — is meaningless if Trump says otherwise. …
2025-07-04 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

2025-06-28
BREAKING: Supreme Court, 6-3, upholds Texas's age-verification internet law.  Thomas, for the court, affirms the Fifth Circuit's opinion, holding that the law is subject to and survives intermediate scrutiny review.  —  www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/ 24p...
2025-06-28 View on X
Politico

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law

[This distinction is illusory.  Today's AV technology is similarly prohibitive.  No adult wants to provide their face just to watch porn.] … Evan Greer / @evangreer : this is bad i...

2025-06-27
BREAKING: Supreme Court, 6-3, upholds Texas's age-verification internet law.  Thomas, for the court, affirms the Fifth Circuit's opinion, holding that the law is subject to and survives intermediate scrutiny review.  —  www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/ 24p...
2025-06-27 View on X
Politico

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law

The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older.

2025-05-17
My “an unauthorized modification was made at approximately 3:15 AM PST” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.  [embedded post]
2025-05-17 View on X
TechCrunch

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal S...

2025-05-16
My “an unauthorized modification was made at approximately 3:15 AM PST” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.  [embedded post]
2025-05-16 View on X
TechCrunch

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …

2025-04-19
NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump effort to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees. Judge Amy Berman Jackson set an April 28 hearing over whether the CFPB's attempted RIF violates a prior court order. “It's not going to happen in the meantime.” Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/...
2025-04-19 View on X
Reuters

A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce

again!  The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans scammed since its founding.  Any cuts to the #CFPB are to rip off working families in favor of big banks and...

BREAKING: The Trump administration's attempt to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees, which was to include cutting off employees' access at 6p today, will not go forward for now, federal judge orders. More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/
2025-04-19 View on X
Reuters

A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce

again!  The CFPB has returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans scammed since its founding.  Any cuts to the #CFPB are to rip off working families in favor of big banks and...

2025-02-25
Today's news leading up the “least surprising, most alarming” quadrant of the matrix: [image]
2025-02-25 View on X
NBC News

Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel.  ...

2025-01-21
Here is the order, for which there is no legal basis, and I am certain providers' counsel will say the same thing. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
2025-01-21 View on X
NPR

Trump signs an EO seeking to pause the TikTok ban for 75 days, in a bid to give him time to negotiate a resolution and protect TikTok's providers from liability

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to hit pause on a law banning TikTok and to provide a liability shield …

2024-12-29
The Trump amicus brief in the TikTok case is wild, not the least of which is because it explicitly is premised on “I'll be president soon” and because the brief — full of puffery (at best) — is authored by his choice for solicitor general, D. John Sauer. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ 24...  [images]
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app.  Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that.

The Trump amicus brief in the TikTok case is wild, not the least of which is because it explicitly is premised on “I'll be president soon” and because the brief — full of puffery (at best) — is authored by his choice for solicitor general, D. John Sauer. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ 24...  [images]
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans

2024-12-28
The Trump amicus brief in the TikTok case is wild, not the least of which is because it explicitly is premised on “I'll be president soon” and because the brief — full of puffery (at best) — is authored by his choice for solicitor general, D. John Sauer. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ 24...  [images]
2024-12-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans

2024-12-17
NEWS: As expected, TikTok goes to SCOTUS, asking Chief Justice John Roberts for an injunction blocking the law that could lead to TikTok being banned in the US in January. Trump's former solicitor general, Noel Francisco at Jones Day, is counsel of record. [image]
2024-12-17 View on X
NBC News

Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app

President-elect Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts.  He has since changed his position on the issue.

I highlighted this expected happening in Sunday night's Law Dork, in my “Closing my tabs” section for paid subscribers. Here's what I wrote: https://www.lawdork.com/... [image]
2024-12-17 View on X
NBC News

Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app

President-elect Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts.  He has since changed his position on the issue.

And, the “creators” group of challengers to the law also have filed their application for an injunction pending cert. Notable: Counsel of record here is Jeffrey Fisher, most well known for his criminal defense work before the court. https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... [image]
2024-12-17 View on X
NBC News

Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app

President-elect Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts.  He has since changed his position on the issue.