Professa Murray
I am a law professor at Marquette University. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight.
- My basic read on these op-Ed’s in NY Time: leaving is a luxury too; when Ida Wells Barnett exposed the authoritarian lies behind lynching in the Red Record, she just moved to Chicago.
- This should be fun folks! DOGE remains an unconstitutional organization under the Appointments and Appropriations Clause. To say otherwise, is to put lipstick on an unconstitutional pig.
- JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a block on efforts by CREW to obtain details of DOGE's operations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- @mrose.ink summing up the situation nicely: “The president has as much legal power to fire the Register of Copyrights as I do, which is to say: none,” Meredith Rose, legal counsel for intellectual property nonprofit Public Knowledge.”
- SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training. On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired. Today, two men claiming to be Trump appointees—including a new acting USCO director—showed up at the office: www.wired.com/story/us-cop...
- Roll Call has a good article summarizing the state of play here, rollcall.com/2025/05/12/t.... The Article raises an interesting question related to the ways in the LOC serves Congress in confidential communications.
- I am not sure any of this morning’s confusion was intentional. The Trump Administration is so used to appointing vacancies as a practice that they may have wandered into stepping on the toes of Congress here. This all can be resolved by President Trump nominating a new Librarian.
- If true, I am concerned b/c: (A) the Copyright Office is legislative agency so a DOGE Quick Strike Team has no authority; and )B) while Pres. Trump had the authority to fire the Librarian of Congress he does not have the authority to appoint under the Vacancy Act.
- @chup.blakereid.org predicted this very firing a mere 48 hours ago. The Head of the Copyright apparently refused to let Elon Musk use copyrighted materials to train his AI.
