Thanks for sharing, Leilani! I'm relatively new here...

And I’m proud of my former colleagues, and the United States Capitol Police, for pushing back, to try to ensure that any transition is handled within the requirements of the law. Including the Constitution, which Trump says he “doesn’t know” if he has to uphold, notwithstanding his oath of office.

I fear what Trump is going to try to do next to one of our nation’s most revered institutions, where I’d worked as an attorney for more than 20 years.

I suspect that he also wants to purge the Library of much of its books and other collection items, as well as of the research and work performed by its staff.

What does remain, will get renamed. Gulf of America!

And to access to confidential information, including proprietary information, submitted in Copyright Royalty Board proceedings – as well as the power dictate those proceedings, which set the rates and terms for statutory licenses and the distributions of royalties collected thereunder.

Trump also wants access to reader/researcher records.

These communications are protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, Article I, Section 6, which is intended to protect the integrity and independence of Congress by ensuring members can speak freely without fear of retribution.

But wait, there’s more!

Trump also wants to access and control the work that the Library’s Congressional Research Service does for Congress.

Musk is an intellectual property nihilist. Intellectual property rights are based in the Constitution, which in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 “empowers Congress to grant authors and inventors exclusive rights in their writings and discoveries.”

What does Trump really want – beyond unfettered power and control, in itself?

He wants to dictate copyright policy, as evidenced by his then illegally firing the Register of Copyrights. The Copyright Office had, the prior day, issued a report about generative AI with which Elon Musk disagrees.

The Library of Congress is required by statute to receive a copy of every book published in the United States. It is not lending library, and you must be at least 16 years old to get a reader registration card.

Well, Trump is making up his justification for firing Dr. Hayden – who, unlike Todd Blanche – is an actual and respected librarian, who has skillfully helmed for nine years world’s largest library.

Trump named as Acting Librarian Todd Blanche, the man who unsuccessfully defended him in a criminal lawsuit about his hush money payments to a porn star, with whom he'd had an affair shortly after his son, Barron, was born.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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I think that many of us needed this dose of camaraderie and hope. I just wish I'd been able to hear the speakers. Better audio would have been helpful. Fortunately, there are recordings. And yes, let's keep this up!

Season finale or series finale?

Lovely photo of you two. Happy anniversary!