In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Friday April 14, 2023

First, from missionlocal.org: Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech - Mission Local
Police have arrested a tech executive in the April 4 killing of Bob Lee, an influential tech executive in San Francisco. The suspect, Nima Momeni, was apprehended in Emeryville and is alleged to have known Lee. Police have ruled out robbery as a motive and believe the two men had a confrontation prior to Lee's death. San Francisco's homicide rate remains low relative to historic trends, though Lee's death has garnered national attention.

Next, from www.propublica.org: Clarence Thomas Didn’t Disclose Harlan Crow Real Estate Deal — ProPublica
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently sold three properties in Savannah, Georgia to a Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. The sale, which included a single-story home and two vacant lots, was never disclosed by Thomas, which appears to be a violation of a federal disclosure law passed after Watergate. Ethics law experts have now questioned whether the transaction was an effort to put cash in Thomas' and his family's pockets. Crow's statement said he bought the properties to preserve them for posterity and to eventually create a public museum dedicated to Thomas.

Finally, from www.washingtonpost.com: Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group - The Washington Post
A young man, nicknamed “OG”, is believed to be the source behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets. He shared hundreds of pages of classified material with a group of far-flung acquaintances on a Discord chat platform. He posted a message laden with strange acronyms and jargon, which appeared to be near-verbatim transcripts of classified intelligence documents from a “military base”. OG lectures his members about world affairs and secretive government operations and the documents posted traversed a range of sensitive subjects. The Pentagon and the FBI are both investigating the source of the leak.

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Today's paper of the day is Hardball and/as Anti-Hardball written by David Pozen. This short essay introduces the idea of "anti-hardball" as a potential antidote to the apparent rise of constitutional hardball in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. It suggests that short-term hardball tactics are more justified in relation to a longer-term anti-hardball strategy.

For a link to the paper and much more, check out our show page. As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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