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Trivia
Question
of
the
Day!
What
is
the
current
name
of
the
oldest
surviving
law
review
in
the
U.S.?
Hint:
The
publication
started
out
as
the
American
Law
Register,
and
was
first
published
in
1852.
See
the
answer
on
the
next
page.
Yesterday,
Politico
released
a
bombshell
expose
on
a
young
Republican
group
Telegram
chat
with
wildly
offensive
rhetoric.
It’s
being
referred
to
in
the
press
as
the
“I
love
Hilter”
chat
because…
yeah,
that’s
one
of
the
things
they
said.
Along
with
multiple
variations
on
the
N-word,
“the
watermelon
people,”
pro-slavery
chatter,
talk
about
raping
their
enemies,
slurs
galore,
putting
their
political
opponents
in
gas
chambers,
and
much
more.
Politico
calls
it
“an
unfiltered
look
at
how
a
new
generation
of
GOP
activists
talk
when
they
think
no
one
is
listening,”
and
it’s
truly
a
horrifying
collection
of
id
gone
wild.
The
private
chat
reportedly
got
leaked
to
Politico
as
the
result
of
a
Young
Republicans
internal
feud.
The
chat
included
a
variety
of
Young
Republican
leaders
in
New
York,
Kansas,
Arizona
and
Vermont,
including
William
Hendrix,
vice
chair
of
the Kansas
Young
Republicans;
Bobby
Walker,
head
of
the
New
York
State
Young
Republicans; Peter
Giunta,
the
former
chair
of
the
New
York
State
Young
Republicans;
Annie
Kaykaty,
New
York’s
national
committee
member; Alex
Dwyer, the
chair
of
the
Kansas
Young
Republicans;
Samuel
Douglass, a
state
senator from
Vermont; Luke
Mosiman, chair
of
the
Arizona
Young
Republicans;
and
Rachel
Hope,
the
Arizona
Young
Republicans
events
chair.
And,
of
course,
there
are
some
attorneys
on
the
chat.
Michael
Bartels,
senior
adviser
in
the
office
of
general
counsel
for
the
U.S.
Small
Business
Administration
and
Joe
Maligno,
id’d
himself
as the
general
counsel for
the
New
York
State
Young
Republicans.
Politico
notes
Bartles
was
mostly
quiet
in
the
chat.
But
Maligno
used
racial
slurs
and
joked
about
Nazism,
saying,
“Gas
chambers
don’t
fit
the
Hitler
aesthetic.”
Life’s
coming
fast
at
the
members
of
the
group.
The
Young
Republican
National
Federation called on
them
to
“immediately
resign
from
all
positions.”
New
York
Governor
Kathy
Hochul,
a
Democrat,
called
for
them
to
be
kicked
out
of
the
Republican
party,
“This
bullshit
has
to
stop.”
New
York
Republicans
Rep.
Elise
Stefanik
and
state
Senate
Minority
Leader
Rob
Ortt
renounced
the
chat.
The
Kansas
Republican
party deactivated their
state’s
Young
Republican
organization.
Douglass,
the
Vermont
state
senator,
is
facing
calls
for
his
resignation.
Vermont
Governor
Phil
Scott condemned
the
messages.
(Vice
President
JD
Vance
turned
it
into
an
opportunity
to
attack
Democrats,
because
of
course.)
And,
yes.
Several
members
have
already
lost
their
jobs.
Many
of
them
were
out
of
work
as
Politico
investigated
the
story.
Now,
only
a
day
later,
there’s
more
fall
out.
Maligno
*was*
the
Associate
Court
Attorney
to
Hon.
Mary
A.
Kavanagh,
but
no
more.
A
spokesperson
for
the New
York
State
Unified
Court
System
confirmed
he’s
no
longer
an
employee.
Bartels,
the
only
member
of
the
group
chat
to
be
confirmed
as
a
member
of
the
Trump
administration,
still
has
a
job.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email
her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter
@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon
@[email protected].
Rule
of
thumb:
you
should
never
represent
your
client
in
a
way
that
will
make
you
need
a
lawyer
down
the
line.
As
much
as
it
is
in
your
rights
to
argue
up
and
down
that
your
client
is
on
the
straight
and
narrow,
once
you
cross
in
to
moving
money
and
making
up
misleading
documents
to
make
your
case,
it
is
only
a
matter
of
time
before
you’re
going
to
be
on
the
other
side
of
the
law.
That
time
eventually
caught
up
with
Ari
Lauer.
Reuters
has
coverage:
A
California
attorney
on
Tuesday
pleaded
guilty
a
week
before
he
was
set
to
face
trial
on
criminal
charges
stemming
from
his
role
in
an
estimated
$912
million
Ponzi
scheme
involving
California
solar
power
supply
company
DC
Solar.Ari
Lauer
pleaded
guilty
before
U.S.
District
Judge
Dale
Drozd
in
Sacramento
to
23
counts,
including
bank
fraud
and
wire
fraud
affecting
a
financial
institution.
The
finer
details
of
the
scheme
reads
like
one
of
those
“You
have
two
cows”
entries.
Over
the
span
of
about
7
years
DC
Solar
entered
contracts
promising
to
sell
solar
generators.
Totally
fine
at
face
value,
but
things
go
south
pretty
quickly
once
you
realize
DC
only
actually
had
about
half
of
the
17,000
or
so
generators
they
promised
to
sell
and
padded
out
the
numbers
that
didn’t
add
up
with
fraud.
Lauer’s
sentencing
is
scheduled
for
January
26th.
If
the
members
of
his
cohort
are
any
indication
of
what
he’s
in
for,
he’s
looking
at
some
serious
time.
Both
of
the
owners
of
DC
Solar
earned
a
good
deal
of
time
behind
bars:
Paulette
Carpoff
got
11
years
and
her
husband
Jeff
got
30.
That
said,
whatever
amount
of
money
Lauer
is
going
to
be
on
the
hook
for
will
be
dwarfed
by
the
$790M
Jeff
was
ordered
to
pay
back
to
the
people
he
frauded.
That
said,
this
might
be
the
end
of
his
law
license.
Solar
Firm’s
Lawyer
Pleads
Guilty
To
Ponzi
Scheme
Charges
[Reuters]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.
HARARE
–
Police
on
Tuesday
said
nearly
a
dozen
National
Youth
Service
graduates
were
“persons
of
interest”
after
they
appeared
in
a
viral
video
calling
for
the
fall
of
President
Emmerson
Mnangagwa’s
government,
amid
rising
tensions
ahead
of
protests
called
for
October
17
by
war
veteran
Blessed
Geza.
In
a
statement
on
Tuesday,
national
police
spokesperson
Commissioner
Paul
Nyathi
said:
“Reference
is
made
to
a
video
that
has
gone
viral
on
social
media
platforms,
in
which
some
members
of
the
Zimbabwe
National
Youth
Service
Graduates
Association
are
engaged
in
an
unsanctioned
gathering.
These
members
are
persons
of
interest.”
The
warning
comes
as
Geza
—
a
former
Zanu
PF
central
committee
member
and
vocal
critic
of
Mnangagwa
—
has
urged
citizens
to
join
what
he
calls
the
“Million
Citizens
March
for
Zimbabwe’s
Future”
on
Friday.
The
protest
call
has
cast
a
shadow
over
Zanu
PF’s
annual
conference
in
Mutare,
which
runs
from
October
13
to
18.
In
the
video,
a
spokesman
for
the
youth
service
graduates
—
flanked
by
nine
others,
some
wearing
uniform
—
said
the
2017
military
coup
was
meant
to
“restore
the
dignity
of
black
people,
fight
corruption
and
stop
those
abusing
President
Robert
Mugabe’s
powers
for
personal
gain.”
“Now
to
our
horror,
the
conditions
that
led
to
the
military’s
2017
Operation
Restore
Legacy
have
returned
twenty-fold.
As
trained
graduates
of
the
youth
service,
we
call
upon
Zimbabweans
to
join
us
in
fighting
corruption,”
the
speaker
declared.
He
added:
“We
are
encouraged
that
the
vice
president
(Constantino
Chiwenga)
has
called
for
the
arrest
of
these
corrupt
individuals.
We
are
giving
law
enforcement
24
hours
to
act.
If
it
fails,
we
will
go
into
the
streets
—
all
Zimbabweans
must
reaffirm
that
Zimbabwe
does
not
belong
to
one
person
but
to
all
of
us.”
In
a
series
of
letters
dated
October
11
and
posted
on
his
X
account,
Geza
and
a
group
calling
themselves
the
Concerned
Citizens
of
the
Republic
of
Zimbabwe
appealed
directly
to
Mnangagwa
to
order
the
arrest
of
businessmen
Kudakwashe
Tagwirei,
Wicknell
Chivhayo
and
Scott
Sakupwanya
over
alleged
“grand
corruption”
and
“criminal
capture
of
the
state.”
Geza
accused
the
trio
of
looting
billions
of
dollars
from
public
coffers
through
government
contracts,
mining
deals
and
opaque
financial
arrangements,
and
demanded
their
arrest,
prosecution
and
the
forfeiture
of
their
assets.
“We
are
compelled
to
address
you
not
out
of
malice,
but
from
a
place
of
profound
national
duty
and
deep-seated
concern
for
the
future
of
the
Republic
of
Zimbabwe,”
Geza
wrote.
“The
avenues
of
accountability
which
your
government
is
constitutionally
mandated
to
uphold
appear
entirely
compromised
and
unresponsive
to
one
of
the
most
staggering
acts
of
brazen
looting
in
our
nation’s
history.”
He
alleged
that
Chivhayo
defrauded
the
government
of
US$192,761,700
through
six
companies
—
IMC
Technologies,
IMC
Communications,
Kings
Excellence,
IMC
Agriculture,
IMC
Plant
Hire
and
Eden-breeze
—
all
allegedly
linked
to
inflated
or
non-existent
government
contracts.
Geza
demanded
“the
immediate
arrest
and
prosecution
of
Wicknell
Chivhayo
and
every
single
government
official
and
accomplice
named
in
this
scheme,”
as
well
as
a
“transparent
forensic
audit”
involving
the
Ministry
of
Finance,
the
Reserve
Bank
of
Zimbabwe
and
all
commercial
banks.
In
another
letter,
he
accused
Sakunda
Holdings
boss
Tagwirei
of
masterminding
the
“fraudulent
extraction
of
US$1.9
billion”
through
Kuvimba
Mining
House
—
a
transaction
he
said
diverted
state-owned
mining
assets
into
private
hands.
“A
forensic
juxtaposition
of
the
CBZ
Capital
Valuation
Report
of
October
2023
with
the
known
history
of
the
assets
reveals
a
scheme
of
staggering
brazenness,”
Geza
wrote,
alleging
that
Tagwirei
had
seized
control
of
mines
previously
owned
by
the
military
—
including
Great
Dyke
Investments
and
Sandawana
Mines
—
and
calling
for
international
investigations.
On
Sakupwanya,
Geza
claimed
the
Zanu
PF
MP
and
gold
dealer
presided
over
a
“sophisticated
financial
fraud
scheme”
known
as
the
“Gold
Tollgate”,
which
he
said
siphoned
between
US$800
million
and
US$1.2
billion
from
the
treasury.
“It
is
with
deep
respect
for
your
office
and
a
firm
belief
in
the
principles
of
justice
and
accountability
that
we
lay
these
facts
before
you,
appealing
for
your
immediate
and
decisive
intervention,”
he
wrote.
In
all
three
letters,
Geza
urged
Mnangagwa
to
“choose
the
path
of
integrity”
and
“side
with
the
millions
of
suffering
Zimbabweans,”
warning
that
his
legacy
would
be
defined
by
how
he
responded
to
what
he
called
“a
moment
of
profound
crisis.”
“The
people
of
Zimbabwe
are
watching,”
he
warned.
“Act
decisively
to
end
this
grand
corruption
and
ensure
justice
is
served.”
While
Geza’s
previous
calls
for
nationwide
protests
have
largely
fizzled,
the
timing
of
this
latest
one
—
coinciding
with
Zanu
PF’s
conference
and
amid
reported
tensions
between
Mnangagwa
and
Chiwenga
—
together
with
the
police
statement,
points
to
growing
official
concern
over
the
convergence
of
youth
groups
and
activists
ahead
of
the
planned
demonstrations.
The
accident
happened
when
a
bus
carrying
91
passengers
from
the
Eastern
Cape
to
Zimbabwe
veered
off
the
Zoutpansberg
mountain
and
plunged
down
a
steep
slope.
A
total
of
40
people
were
injured.
Ramathuba’s
office,
said:
“Working
with
authorities
from
Zimbabwe
and
Malawi,
the
province
hopes
they
will
be
able
to
run
fingerprint
comparisons
on
their
side
since
some
of
the
deceased
do
not
have
identification
documents.“It
is
only
then
they
will
be
able
to
repatriate
them
for
their
families
to
have
closure.”
Ramathuba
said
photographs
of
all
the
deceased
have
been
taken
and
encouraged
families
searching
for
their
loved
ones
to
visit
Tshilidzini
Hospital
to
help
with
the
identification
process. She
said:
“The
victim
identification
team
will
start
collecting
fingerprint
sets
from
all
the
bodies.“It
is
anticipated
by
Wednesday
the
forensic
pathology
teams
would
have
concluded
postmortem
examinations.”
Ramathuba
said
17
families
had
already
arrived
at
Tshilidzini
Hospital
to
identify
their
loved
ones,
and
the
process
will
continue
on
Wednesday
for
the
remaining
families.
She
added
that
19
patients
have
been
discharged
and
reunited
with
their
families
in
Zimbabwe
and
Malawi.
Authorities
will
investigate
why
the
bus
travelled
such
a
long
distance
with
so
many
passengers,
she
said.
Police
have
opened
a
case
of
culpable
homicide,
while
the
Road
Traffic
Management
Corporation
is
finalising
a
technical
report
on
the
cause
of
the
crash.
Chiwenga’s
document,
which
he
submitted
to
Mnangagwa
on
17
September,
began
by
referencing
the
November
2017
military
intervention
that
brought
the
pair
to
power.
He
accused
Mnangagwa’s
close
allies
of
“corruption,
capture,
and
betrayal”
of
the
ideals
of
the
2017
operation.
The
vice
president
singled
out
four
individuals,
Kudakwashe
Tagwirei,
Wicknell
Chivhayo,
Scott
Sakupwanya,
and
Delish
Nguwaya,
alleging
that
they
used
illicit
funds
to
“bribe
fellow
comrades
and
party
structures
to
gain
support,
protection,
and
influence.”
Chiwenga
claimed
they
had
“not
only
enriched
themselves
but
are
using
their
stolen
wealth
to
capture
the
Party,
manipulate
state
institutions,
and
compromise
key
officials.”
In
response,
a
document
authored
by
ZANU
PF’s
legal
secretary,
Ziyambi
Ziyambi,
and
presented
to
the
Politburo
on
Tuesday,
14
October,
described
Chiwenga’s
dossier
as
“fundamentally
flawed,
treasonous,
and
showing
a
lack
of
understanding
of
party
procedures
and
the
national
constitution.”
Said
Ziyambi:
“At
its
core,
the
document
advocates
for
the
unlawful
removal
of
a
constitutionally
elected
President,
which
is
palpably
treasonous.“The
document
not
only
undermines
the
President
but
also
the
economy
and
individuals
who
work
hard
to
support
the
Party.“One
wonders
whether
the
placement
under
sanctions
of
some
of
these
individuals
was
not
a
result
of
such
reckless
utterances.“Such
reckless
utterances
have
cost
our
economy,
His
Excellency’s
goodwill
in
the
international
fora,
and
individuals
who
have
been
unduly
placed
under
sanctions,
and
in
the
end,
no
investor
would
want
to
invest
in
our
country.“What
is
equally
troubling
is
how
such
a
document
found
its
way
into
the
hands
of
hostile
media
houses
across
the
country.“The
circumstances
under
which
the
author
obtained
access
to
the
documents,
now
in
the
public
domain,
remain
highly
questionable
and
amount
to
a
violation
of
the
Official
Secrets
Act.“The
presentation
bears
a
striking
resemblance
to
the
narratives
perpetuated
by
Geza,
Western
media
and
all
our
detractors
bent
on
undermining
our
sovereignty
and
constitutional
order.“Whilst
the
author
castigates
certain
individuals,
he
has
never
castigated
Geza,
a
rebel
who
was
expelled
from
the
Party
and
is
bent
on
inciting
chaos
in
the
country.“The
Party
remains
committed
to
fostering
an
environment
where
constructive
criticism
and
dissenting
views
are
valued,
but
such
views
must
be
presented
in
a
manner
that
is
respectful,
factually
accurate,
and
in
good
faith.“The
author
of
the
document
does
not
understand
the
tenets
of
democracy
and
the
difference
between
civilian
and
military
conduct,
which
prompts
a
reorientation
course
at
the
Chitepo
School
of
Ideology
for
the
whole
Politburo
and
Central
Committee,
on
the
Supremacy
of
the
Party
and
basic
tenets
of
democracy.“The
document’s
intention
is
suspect,
and
its
allegations
are
baseless
and
devoid
of
evidence.“We
are
compelled
to
re-emphasise
that
any
attempt
to
stage
a
coup,
whether
through
treacherous
acts,
misrepresentation
of
facts,
violation
of
others’
privacy,
incitement
of
violence
and
despondency,
or
willful
blindness
to
positive
development,
is
a
grave
offence
that
undermines
the
stability
and
unity
of
our
nation
and
should
be
liable
to
immediate
censure.”
ZANU
PF
insiders
who
spoke
to
ZimLive
said
that
Chiwenga
also
faced
criticism
from
the
party’s
national
chair,
Oppah
Muchinguri.
She
reminded
him
that
they
had
all
fought
in
the
liberation
war,
but
their
paths
diverged
at
independence,
with
Chiwenga
becoming
a
soldier
while
others
entered
government.
Muchinguri
reportedly
told
Chiwenga,
a
retired
commander
of
the
Zimbabwe
Defence
Forces,
that
there
was
“nothing
special
about
coming
from
the
barracks.”
ZANU
PF
legal
secretary
Patrick
Chinamasa
also
reportedly
criticised
the
vice
president,
saying
his
attacks
on
the
Land
Tenure
Implementation
Committee,
led
by
Kudakwashe
Tagwirei,
overlooked
the
fact
that
“the
president
owns
all
land.”
In
response,
Chiwenga
reportedly
spoke
briefly,
but
the
room
fell
silent
after
he
spoke.
He
reportedly
said:
“I’ve
listened
to
all
your
presentations
and
I’m
convinced
that
all
of
you
support
zvigananda.
It’s
okay.
I
acknowledge
it.”
Philosopher
Paul
Virilio
wrote
of
the
integral
accident
—
with
technological
advancement
there
comes
a
corresponding
new
accident.
Planes
beget
plane
crashes,
electricity
begets
electrocution.
Artificial
intelligence
has,
in
turn,
delivered
the
AI
hallucination.
Lawyers
do
it,
judges
do
it,
our
clients
do
it.
When
Mata
v.
Avianca
came
down
—
the
ur
text
of
lawyer
AI
hallucination
screw
ups
—
we
defended
the
technology
against
critics,
stressing
that
the
problem
in
this
case
remained
fundamentally
human.
It
shouldn’t
matter
where
the
fake
cite
comes
from…
lawyers
have
an
obligation
to
check
their
filings
for
accuracy.
Don’t
hate
the
(video)
game,
hate
the
player.
Now,
after
a
couple
years
of
sustained
hallucination
embarrassments
across
the
industry,
we
have
to
wonder
if
it’s
time
to
start
hating
the
game.
It
seems
like
they’re
just
not
stopping
and
it
doesn’t
seem
to
matter
if
the
sanctions
are
understanding
or
draconian.
There’s
another
story
coming
out
of
last
week:
Christine
Lemmer-Webber
described
generative
AI
as
Mansplaining
As
A
Service,
and
I
don’t
know
if
an
AI
tool
suggested
telling
the
judge
that
there
were
attached
cases
that
weren’t
attached,
but
it
raises
the
mansplaining
bar.
How
is
this
still
happening?
There’s
an
interesting
back-and-forth
among
law
professors
today:
In
response,
Professor
Frye
states:
Which
is
fair.
Plagiarism
should
be
your
friend
in
a
common
law
legal
system.
Whenever
an
enterprising
lawyer
tries
to
assert
copyright
over
their
public
filings,
a
puppy
dies.
But
there’s
an
art
to
knowing
what
to
properly
copy
to
advance
the
client’s
argument.
Though
even
with
a
“human
in
the
loop”
—
the
industry
polite
phrasing
for
“you’re
still
responsible,
dumbass”
—
does
the
human
process
of
finding
good
material
and
copying
it
lose
something
when
automated?
On
a
surface
level,
it
shouldn’t.
However
the
material
gets
there,
the
human
checking
it
should
make
sure
it’s
right
before
it
goes
out
the
door.
But
returning
to
Virilio,
another
of
his
core
arguments
was
that
speed
changes
the
nature
of
an
event.
Applying
this
sort
of
dromological
displacement
to
the
process
of
writing,
Virilio
might
say
that
these
tools
aren’t
just
typing
faster,
but
changing
what
a
“brief”
(or
“opinion”)
even
is.
Is
the
brief
merely
the
manifestation
of
the
argument
to
the
tribunal,
or
is
it
also
the
site
of
the
lawyer’s
thinking
through
of
the
argument.
To
the
extent
it’s
the
latter,
automation
collapses
that
temporal
space.
The
lawyer
doesn’t
write
with
time
anymore,
as
much
as
they
write
against
it.
When
we
talk
about
how
AI
accelerates
the
process,
a
lawyer’s
conception
of
the
workflow
itself
can
change
and
the
human
act
of
tediously
checking
cites
becomes
so
jarring
when
juxtaposed
to
the
writing
process
that
we
look
down
upon
it
as
an
obstacle
to
be
half-assed…
or,
probably
inevitably,
turned
over
to
yet
another
bot.
The
hype
surrounding
“Agentic”
AI
tends
to
suggest
the
industry
has
a
hankering
for
this
“GPT-sus
Take
The
Wheel”
approach.
Truly
Agentic
AI
is
miserably
inaccurate.
Thankfully,
most
agentic
applications
in
legal
are
can
only
very
tenuously
be
called
“agentic,”
which
may
irritate
marketing
teams,
but
should
make
lawyers
more
comfortable.
Regardless,
the
fact
that
we’re
talking
about
Agentic
AI
as
a
goal
is
indicative
of
a
desire
to
erode
the
human
from
the
loop.
There’s
a
fundamental
difference
between
(1)
the
iterative
process
of
querying
the
bot,
checking
the
output,
refining
the
query,
checking
the
output,
rethinking
strategy,
running
the
query
again,
checking
that,
and
then
moving
to
step
2
in
a
five-step
workflow;
and,
(2)
showing
up
after
an
AI
churned
through
the
five-step
workflow
uninterrupted
and
trying
to
reverse
engineer
the
delivered
work
product
to
make
sure
it
makes
sense.
Because
the
first
option
is
where
AI
more
or
less
exists
as
a
legal
tool
now
and
the
second
is
the
“promise”
of
agentic.
And
anyone
who
doesn’t
believe
there’s
a
difference
between
the
two,
consider
how
you
would
normally
work
on
a
brief
with
junior
associates
every
day
and
assigning
the
brief,
taking
a
three-week
vacation,
and
then
editing
a
draft
for
the
first
time
six
hours
before
it’s
due.
Those
are
two
very
different
processes.
Which
brings
us
back
to
the
question:
has
AI
made
lawyers
dumber?
Is
it
just
shining
a
light
on
lawyers
who
were
already
too
careless,
or
has
it
changed
the
whole
process
in
a
way
that
creates
more
carelessness?
And
if
it
is
the
latter,
the
answer
isn’t
to
reject
the
technology.
There
may
well
be
a
catastrophic
bubble
bursting
sometime
soon,
but
the
underlying
technology
will
find
a
way
to
go
on.
How
do
lawyers
adapt
to
this
psychological
reordering
of
the
process?
Like
most
continental
philosophy,
Virilio
isn’t
saying
speed
is
necessarily
bad,
it
just…
is.
And
understanding
what
it’s
doing
to
you
is
half
the
battle.
Joe
Patrice is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law
and
co-host
of Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
Feel
free
to email any
tips,
questions,
or
comments.
Follow
him
on Twitter or Bluesky if
you’re
interested
in
law,
politics,
and
a
healthy
dose
of
college
sports
news.
Joe
also
serves
as
a Managing
Director
at
RPN
Executive
Search.
The
First
Amendment
does
not
have
a
bedtime
of
10:00
p.m.
The
burden
is
on
the
government
to
prove
that
its
actions
are
narrowly
tailored
to
achieve
a
compelling
governmental
interest.
It
has
not
done
so.
— Western
District
of
Texas
Judge
David
Ezra
in
a
recent
decision
finding
that
a
Texas
law
barring
otherwise
protected
speech
on
campus
by
students
is
likely
unconstitutional,
and
granting
plaintiff
student
groups
an
injunction
from
the
enforcement
of
the
statute.
The
law
prohibited
expressive
activities
from
10
p.m.
to
8
a.m.,
with
additional
restrictions
during
the
last
two
weeks
of
the
academic
term.
Ezra
noted
the
statute
contradicts
itself
by
instructing
universities
to
uphold
the
First
Amendment
but
mandating
the
schools
“adopt
policies
that
violate
those
very
constitutional
protections.”
The
credits
were
generated
by
a
clean
cookstove
project
led
by Cicada
Carbon,
a
member
of
the Zimbabwe
Carbon
Association,
local
media
has
reported.
It
is
said
to
be
the
first
private-sector
initiative
globally
to
receive
the
CA
designation—an
accounting
mechanism
that
prevents
double
counting
of
emissions
reductions
by
ensuring
they
are
not
claimed
by
both
the
host
country
and
the
buyer.
Approximately
112,000
credits
from
the
project
have
been
tagged
with
CAs,
with
up
to
3
million
credits
projected
over
five
years,
as
confirmed
by
Gold
Standard.
Under
Zimbabwe’s
Carbon
Trading
Regulations,
one-third
of
the
credits
will
be
reserved
as
levies.
The
development
positions
Zimbabwe
to
access
compliance
carbon
markets,
including
the
United
Nations’
aviation
offset
program, CORSIA.
A
technical
review
could
make
Cicada
Carbon’s
project
only
the
second
in
the
world
to
meet
CORSIA
eligibility
after
Guyana’s
REDD+
project.
The
move
could
offer
a
practical
reference
for
other
African
nations
looking
to
operationalize
Article
6
mechanisms
while
retaining
sovereign
control
over
their
emissions
reductions.
While
the
long-term
economic
effects
remain
to
be
seen,
this
milestone
reflects
a
broader
shift
toward
stronger
oversight
and
institutional
maturity
in
regional
carbon
markets.
Its
success,
however,
may
depend
on
how
effectively
countries
balance
investor
access
with
equitable
benefit-sharing
and
alignment
with
national
climate
policies.
HARARE
–
A
police
officer
who
grabbed
national
attention
in
August
after
declaring
himself
as
the
new
police
chief
has
been
indefinitely
committed
to
Chikurubi
Psychiatric
Unit
after
being
declared
mentally
unfit
to
stand
trial.
Harare
magistrate
Tapiwa
Kuhudzai
made
the
ruling
after
receiving
medical
reports
from
two
state
doctors
and
one
private
doctor,
all
confirming
that
Assistant
Inspector
Simbarashe
Mandizvidza
was
not
of
sound
mental
health.
Mandizvidza
had
been
charged
with
transmitting
false
information
with
intent
to
cause
harm,
breaches
of
the
Road
Traffic
Act,
and
causing
disaffection
among
police
or
defence
forces.
The
charges
stemmed
from
a
series
of
viral
recordings
Mandizvidza
made
while
at
his
official
residence
at
ZRP
Hatfield
Police
Camp.
He
made
declarations
giving
all
Chinese
nationals
living
and
doing
business
in
Zimbabwe
a
48-hour
ultimatum
to
leave.
He
had
also
been
accused
of
stealing
a
police
vehicle
after
misrepresenting
to
his
superior,
Fidios
Chiteure
–
the
officer
in
charge
of
Police
General
Headquarters
Pay
and
Records
–
that
he
had
been
sent
by
Commissioner
Makomo
to
use
a
police
Ford
Ranger
for
official
errands.
He
drove
the
vehicle
to
Waerera
Village
in
Bindura,
where
it
was
recovered.
Mandizvidza
will
be
committed
to
Chikurubi
Psychiatric
Unit
for
an
indefinite
period
and
his
prosecution
has
been
formally
abandoned
until
doctors
confirm
his
recovery.