Zdeněk Kühn
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“The big tech companies like to see themselves as invested in spreading knowledge and curiosity. In fact in order to survive they must promote stupidity. The tech oligarchs have just as much of a stake in the ignorance of the population as the most reactionary feudal autocrat.“
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“The big tech companies like to see themselves as invested in spreading knowledge and curiosity. In fact in order to survive they must promote stupidity. The tech oligarchs have just as much of a stake in the ignorance of the population as the most reactionary feudal autocrat.“
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
Opinion | How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
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June 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
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“If the administration continues its defiance, including by potentially defying an even more direct and clear ruling from the nation’s highest court, then the country will face its greatest test to the rule of law since the Civil War.”
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do
The justices and the American people must hold the line together.
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April 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“If the administration continues its defiance, including by potentially defying an even more direct and clear ruling from the nation’s highest court, then the country will face its greatest test to the rule of law since the Civil War.”
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“ … Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” (L. Hand)
March 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“ … Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” (L. Hand)
“It is the president’s deliberate intent to chill the nation’s largest law firms from representing cases that he dislikes”
March 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“It is the president’s deliberate intent to chill the nation’s largest law firms from representing cases that he dislikes”
Unlike Polish law firms during PiS government American law firms are much more cautious
One big law firm objects to Trump. Another bends the knee. wapo.st/41ZOcTB
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March 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Unlike Polish law firms during PiS government American law firms are much more cautious
One big law firm objects to Trump. Another bends the knee. wapo.st/41ZOcTB
wapo.st
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
One big law firm objects to Trump. Another bends the knee. wapo.st/41ZOcTB
Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda
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Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda
Impeachment threats against judges — and sometimes physical threats to their safety — compromise the independence of the judiciary, experts warn.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic…
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March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
Great writing on one of the free speech classical precedents www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? (Gift Article)
New York Times v. Sullivan and other landmark Supreme Court decisions protect the press’s ability to investigate public figures. But a growing right-wing movement seeks to overturn them.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great writing on one of the free speech classical precedents www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/m...
“If the Trump administration chooses to defy court orders, we will have a constitutional crisis not seen before. Perhaps public opinion will turn against the president … Or perhaps, after 238 years, we will see the end of government under the rule of law. “
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Opinion | If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What? (Gift Article)
Judges are constrained in their ability to make the president obey their orders.
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March 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“If the Trump administration chooses to defy court orders, we will have a constitutional crisis not seen before. Perhaps public opinion will turn against the president … Or perhaps, after 238 years, we will see the end of government under the rule of law. “
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