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The DPA does not permit the government to seize businesses and their operational assets. Or do you mean require Starlink to provide services in return for fair remuneration?

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I majored in German. Does that make me, never mind

Which also proves it somehow too!

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To work as an attorney for the federal government, a jd has to pass the bar and be in good standing. For non-attorney positions, no such requirement but, I know a number of people with law degrees in non-legal positions who do not hold themselves out as attorneys, even though they passed the bar

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Still, it seems wild to me that derived citizenship is contingent forever on whether the government can find a reason to disapprove retroactively and revoke without process.

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Update: Show me the woman (of color) etc.

Me neither, so I hope someone can tell us whether derivative naturalization can simply be revoked after many decades on evidence of a paperwork error or something.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How would they remove her without first having denaturalization procedures?

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It does seem like he broke something tho

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is the search warrant available? What evidence of this could they possibly hope to find in her home?

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word Our Man in Havana Pants

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Since “super intelligence” already had a meaning, maybe they should have gone with “supermaxxx intelligence.”

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, is (Army) Military Intelligence going to be Military Super Intelligence or Super Military Intelligence? Or maybe Super Oxymoron?

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unscrupulous users of spy-specs can exploit the awkwardness of your failing to recognize them when they know *so* much about you, scammer’s dream

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just FYI, Most Senate non-public records remain closed to the public for 20 years (50 years for certain matters), but that timeline is subject to exception.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Apparently there’s no conflict of interest if there’s no duty to be representing our interests in the first place. Maybe I’m reading this wrong but

A spokeswoman for Mr. Witkoff said that he
"takes no salary and travels the world on his own plane, at his own expense, working on behalf of President Trump to negotiate peace and bring hostages home to their families." She added that Mr. Witkoff "has no conflict of interest and no financial stake in this matter."

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But think how great “saving sunshine” will be for the northernmost reaches of Alaska. I’ve never been there, but I’m sure changing the clocks is a major inconvenience.

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Practice for climbing those steeples to change the clocks back twice a year? I hear that’s a thing.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is so confusing. What does “Sunshine” need “protection” from? I thought we were supposed to protect ourselves against harmful UV rays, so … won’t this bill increase cancer? 🙄

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

See, by avoiding those not-so-lucrative entanglements that might suggest you owe some duty to the US government and taxpayers, you can pursue other interests without conflict.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anybody read the Church Committee report? All that got unearthed after Congress decided maybe it should take a look at what the coequal branch was up to?

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why do I keep thinking of that scene in The Poseidon Adventure, where the true believers keep heading to the top of the ship to be rescued, only it’s upside down?

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or order people to order you to fight them

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(BTW this is OLC’s interpretation, as I understand it, not mine.)

Irreparable, one might say. Although SCOTUS seems to have a different definition for that

The typewriter ribbon itself would have to be held under lock and key.

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To be classified that way, it would have to contain intel sources and methods, wouldn’t it? Which should be redactable without obscuring legal justification, I would think. 🤔

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Just because it’s an armed conflict doesn’t mean it equals “hostilities” under the WPR, which has to amount to “war in the constitutional sense.” OLC has never found one of those, I don’t think, at least in a public opinion.

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So the bot consults CRS reports. Seems like a good sign. I’ll check have to check it again in a week.

Last night, I asked it about options to use a national emergency to override prohibitions on using troops at the polls, and it gave a fairly decent answer, even citing my posse comitatus report (which doesn’t address that question). I posed the same question again just now, and got similar response

I asked it a couple of questions and was surprised the responses weren’t bad. Of course, it cited some of my work, so I guess I *would be impressed. (One thing it gets wrong must be my fault for not getting my report update published yet 🙂)

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If the President declares a national emergency, can the military seize election equipment?

A national emergency declaration does not, by itself, authorize the military to seize election equipment.
What a national emergency does
Under the National Emergencies Act, a declaration does not unlock every emergency statute automatically. The President must specify which laws will be used. Congress can terminate an emergency by joint resolution. See 50 U.S.C.
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Limits on using the military
• The Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids using the Army or Air Force (and related forces by other law) to execute civilian law unless the Constitution or an Act of Congress expressly allows it. See 18 U.S.C.
§ 1385 and CRS,
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• Separate criminal law restricts armed forces interference in elections. 18 U.S.C. $ 593 7 makes it a crime for an officer or member of the Armed Forces to, among other things, try to set voter qualifications, prevent qualified voters from voting, or interfere with how an election is run.
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It’s not the being in proximity to someone else on the enemy list that’s the problem, it’s the *lying* about being in proximity to someone else on the enemy list. Probably.

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They sometimes flee to those places to avoid being sent to The Hague. Potential cause for confusion?

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Remember how W wanted to use his Dad’s AUMF? (Which wasn’t as nutty as it sounds, just a reason for repealing old ones.)

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Iowans are used to having our state confused with Idaho, so this will probably come as no surprise

22 U.S. Code § 2291 - Policy, general authorities, coordination, foreign police actions, definitions, and other provisions

Since the Mansfield Amendment restricts the military’s ability to conduct arrests in connection with drug enforcement ops overseas, maybe cooperation in other than direct action will be deemed discouraged? www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

law.cornell.edu

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having seven Americadays is going to make keeping up with meeting schedules even harder.

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This may be a bit off topic, but how did Cedar Rapids get moved to Waterloo?

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I haven’t heard it, but fortunately I also haven’t read that Rolling Stone piece so I have no idea what I just admitted to actually thinking about it.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s bad enough that we have to pay for cable and yet are still forced to watch ads, but now we are also forced to pay to make the ads that we are forced to pay again to be forced to watch? Where does it stop?

Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If only there were some way to discover which insurance companies are defrauding the government of ACA subsidies without kicking all enrollees off their policies if they haven’t filed a claim.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People who don’t exist can hardly be committing fraud. The claim seems to be that insurance companies are committing fraud by enrolling phantom healthy people. But language used to describe the proble—and the solution to it—sure makes it sound like people getting insurance is the problem.

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Jennifer Elsea @jnklz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are definitely political obstacles, but I’d be curious to know what legal obstacles funding cut-offs would face if enacted, per @gregsargent.bsky.social