…“If the #Trump Justice Department takes the position that the #OLC opinion applies retroactively, we might see #NARA being forced to declare that records of past administrations covered by the PRA should always have been considered ‘personal’ in nature, & that courts are without jurisdiction to entertain lawsuits…for access to those records,” said Jason R. Baron, fmr litigation director for the Archives.

#law #accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy

Trump’s Office Of Legal Counsel Says Trump Doesn’t Need To Follow The Presidential Records Rules

Leave it to the president that makes us nostalgic for Nixon-era corruption to claim that a law Nixon made necessary is no longer a law. The Presidential Records Act was summoned into existence by N…

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日本発のディズニークルーズ、オリエンタルランドが運営会社を設立。2026年度後半に造船開始、新ロゴをお披露目

 オリエンタルランドは3月24日、同社全額出資の子会社「オリエンタルランド・クルーズ」の設立を発表した。4月3日より事業を開始する。

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Since Last May, ICE Officers Have Been Told They Don’t Need Warrants To Enter Homes

The thing afforded the highest protections of the Fourth Amendment is a person’s home. This isn’t even a controversial statement. It has been that way ever since this amendment was rati…

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Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them

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Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them

This administration isn’t content to be normal awful. It insists on being ghastly awful as often as possible. Not content to eject hundreds of migrants into foreign torture prisons, the admin…

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オリエンタルランド、ディズニークルーズの進捗に言及。「クルーズを新たな文化として根付かせる」と髙野CEO

 オリエンタルランドは11月7日、「総合報告書2025」を発行し、特集・クルーズ事業で2028年度就航予定の「ディズニークルーズ」について言及した。

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#Trump has stacked the #DOJ & the #Pentagon with personal #loyalists, & has tended to bypass the Office of Legal Counsel [#OLC] — the institution traditionally responsible for vetting the legality of executive actions. Although the standard guidelines & procedures for past #domestic deployments remain on the books, there is substantial reason to doubt that the civilian leadership will follow them.

#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #military #NationalGuard #Marines #LosAngeles #autocracy

National Library Workers Day

A happy National Library Workers Day to all who celebrate! That should be ALL of us, by the way. From the American Library Association website: "The ALA Allied Professionals Association (ALA-APA) invites library advocates, patrons, and staff to show their support of our nation’s library workers by posting words of encouragement and appreciation for their local library stars at http://bit.ly/librarystar. Academic, public, special, school library patrons can “Submit a Star” by […]

https://medi-nerd.com/2025/04/08/national-library-workers-day/

An eye-crosser for us non-lawyers but a foothold on understanding the particulars of our predicament.

As usual since it was invented, the Office of Legal Counsel serves here as a de facto court of judicial truncation. Being part of the DoJ, the #OLC is especially poisonous now. Predictable, of course.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-meaning-of-article-ii-and-'executive-power'-to-trump

The Meaning of Article II and 'Executive Power' to Trump

President Trump has cited Article II to justify everything from deportations to firing civil servants—these assertions present a challenge to constitutional order.

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I like Open Location Coordinates AKA #olc #plusCodes as these are a compact, readable easily sharable open way to identify global coordinates.

There's 2 renderings though, a full one and a version that's abbreviated but needs a locality name.

The long one is great, the other one is useless because an app would need a massive db of placenames.

Guess which version #googleMaps gives access to...