Notices by Eric Goldman (ericgoldman@techpolicy.social)

"You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts"

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/you-do-not-under-any-circumstances-gotta-hand-it-to-chief-justice-roberts/

"Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's 1st Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees...our retired veterans deserve more respect from their Government, & our Constitution demands they receive it!"

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365.37.0_1.pdf

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

"if the concern had been that TikTok could be a conduit for Chinese government propaganda—a concern the Supreme Court declined to even consider—people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for U.S. government propaganda"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-tiktok-ownership-deal

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The truth is out there: a significant chunk of the UFO anecdotes are directly attributable to the US government lying to its employees & the public for decades

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e?st=5gehom&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Ruling in Perkins Coie v. USDOJ: "In a cringe-worthy twist on the theatrical phrase “Let’s kill all the lawyers,” EO 14230 takes the approach of “Let’s kill the lawyers *I don’t like*,” sending the clear message: lawyers must stick to the party line, or else."

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0716-185

I have been posting more frequently, and on more political topics, than my historical patterns. @mmasnick explains why https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

"Elon Musk is doing everything conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of" https://forward.com/opinion/697000/elon-musk-george-soros/

Similarly...Musk falsely claimed that social media services exhibited partisan bias, then he turned Twitter into a partisan weapon

(As the maxim goes, every accusation is an admission)

Blog Post: Initial Comments on the Supreme Court’s TikTok Ban Opinion–TikTok v. Garland 🤐

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/01/initial-comments-on-the-supreme-courts-tiktok-ban-opinion-tiktok-v-garland.htm

In FSC v. Paxton, Justice Barrett immediately asks how online age authentication is different from offline. My amicus brief on that very point: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4965327