An excerpt from Friday’s more-than-9000-word-long opinion in In re Bynum, by the Texas Special Court of Review (“Robert Burns, Chief Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals; Justice W. Bruce Williams of the Eleventh Court of Appeals, and Justice Jeff Rambin of the Sixth Court of Appeals”): Before this Review Tribunal is an appeal de novo from a Public Reprimand issued by the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct (Commission) against the Honorable Judge Franklin Bynum (Petitioner), former […]

Ver mais

From Silver’s Substack newsletter yesterday: So, the news is that Facebook is eliminating a partnership that began in December 2016 with independent fact-checking organizations and replacing them with a Twitter/X style Community Notes program. To which I say: that sounds fine, actually…. My impression is that journalists who label themselves as misinformation experts or fact-checkers have a relatively poor capacity for self-reflection, perhaps because these are such self-aggrandizing labels to begin with. But that’s a hard claim to prove. It might […]

Ver mais

Ver mais

The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past. Still, realities from previous administrations remain, such as a fiscal challenge that demands immediate attention. It may weigh on the newcomers even more than they realize today. We can only hope they take it more seriously than their predecessors have done. The longstanding notion that debt accumulation is benign, based largely on interest rates that for a time fell below growth rates, […]

Ver mais

Ver mais

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act into law on December 19, 2024, prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging reservations unauthorized by restaurants. Hochul celebrated the passage of the Act as “giving everyone a chance to get a seat at the dinner table.” But banning certain third-party reservation services from selling to consumers doesn’t create more seats at fine dining establishments, it just changes how you get one—or don’t. New York Sen. […]

Ver mais