@Finitum

Alas, per the U.S.A. Constitution, the President does indeed have the treaty power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and things have already changed since the 18th century.

So if it were ever tested in court, this Supreme Court, the most judicially activist in history, would probably strike down that law about not withdrawing from NATO without consent as unconstitutional.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-1-10/ALDE_00012961/

@ianbetteridge

#ConstitutionalLaw #USPolitics #NATO #USLaw

Update. "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-jews-penn-list-judge.html

Penn will appeal the ruling. “We continue to believe that requiring Penn to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide personal contact information, raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.”

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

@bytebro

One U.S.A. state has passed the law, and there are about 8 months to go before the law comes into effect, with the chance of fixing its problems being slim to none given the way that legislatures work and the time left.

But there are at least 4 others (Louisiana, Colorado, New York, Illinois) where it's still pending in the legislature and people have a chance of fixing the problems before things become law there.

Some people are trying. They have a hard task ahead, because it's actually quite hard to find a legal framework that does not have unintended consequences. I've tried.

California legislators (and Texas, Utah, and Louisiana before them with version 1.0 of this, we being now on version 2.0) simply didn't think outwith the smart 'phone and Microsoft Windows worlds at all. Colorado legislators at least know that those are not the entire world, now.

#AgeVerification #USLaw #ColoradoLaw #IllionoisLaw #CaliforniaLaw #NewYorkLaw #LouisianaLaw #AppStoreAccountability

@bytebro

#UKLaw and #EULaw have not followed in the footsteps of the U.S.A.. The two legal approaches (3, in fact, as Japan has another one) are divergent, and the U.K. and E.U. are already on another legal path where the fundamentals differ. They already have laws.

In fact, their laws came first. The relevant U.K. law was passed when Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister, for historical context. The E.U.'s was the year before that.

The fundamentals are things like exactly who is being legally required to verify, record, provide, and act upon information about people's ages. U.S.A. laws put these onuses on different classes of people than do U.K. and E.U. laws. Japan is different again.

One 'fun' part is that the U.S.A. laws differ on this from state to state, but #Debian Developers (and their counterparts in other Linux-based operating systems) always match the definitions regardless. Because they are both operating system and app store providers.

#AgeVerification #USLaw

Update. It's over. #Musk lost.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musk-loses-big-in-court-x-boycott-perfectly-legal/

"On Thursday, #ElonMusk lost his lawsuit alleging that advertisers violated #antitrust law by colluding on an ad boycott after he took over #Twitter, gutted content moderation teams, and disbanded the Trust and Safety Council."

#Boycotts #SocialMedia #X #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics