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Lessig 🇺🇦

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Lessig 🇺🇦

@lessig

Law professor, activist.

Brookline, MA

Joined December 2007

Lessig 🇺🇦
@lessig
Jul 1, 2024
This is the money quote for the whole Trump v. United States case. Justice Barrett has it exactly right — and shows why the Court (and maybe the Special Counsel) is making this way too hard. The sole question should be whether acts relating to running for president are core
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@lessig
Dec 16, 2017
The ignorance in this tweet is astonishing. The Net was born neutral. From the beginning, the FCC and others fought to keep it neutral. The 2015 rules assured its neutrality. Then the clueless (or corrupt) took that protection away.
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
Dec 15, 2017
Snowflake, believing online propaganda: "OMG w/o net neutrality, the Internet is gone!" Informed observer: "You know, the FCC issued that rule in 2015. The Internet grew up wonderfully free from govt regulation & this restores the status quo ante." Snowflake: "Uh, never mind..."
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@lessig
Dec 13, 2016
We believe there are now at least 20 GOP electors considering a vote of conscience. Last week, there was 1. ow.ly/vHxS3076kVa
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@lessig
Mar 9, 2020
So @SenWarren is in a tough place, choosing btw a probable primary winner and his principled opponent. But remember: @JoeBiden is the only major Dem candidate NOT TO commit to making fundamental reform – what she calls anti-corruption reform – happen first. @SenSanders has.
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@lessig
Jan 13, 2020
Today I sued the @nytimes:
On suing the Times
From lessig.medium.com
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@lessig
Sep 16, 2019
Brilliant piece by Philip Howard. But let's not forget that @AndrewYang is also the most aggressive campaign finance reformer left on stage. That too is a critical part of fixing government: "Promising the moon, ignoring broken government" ow.ly/wxtb30pxMFU
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@lessig
Dec 9, 2016
“winner take all” is not in the constitution: the vote if electoral votes were allocated proportionally.
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@lessig
Dec 4, 2016
Why Bush v. Gore might mean that Clinton should be president: The EP argument against winner-take-all: #1p1vote
medium.com
The Equal Protection argument against “winner take all” in the Electoral College
In 2000, Republican lawyers, desperately seeking a way to stop the recount in Florida, crafted a brilliant Equal Protection argument…
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@lessig
Nov 23, 2016
Jill Stein could do something critically important here — help her?
Jill Stein raises over $4.5m to request US election recounts in battleground states
From theguardian.com
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@lessig
Jul 2, 2024
exactly, which makes this so bizarre. We all can understand that when the president is candidate, his obligations are different. He's got to pay for Airforce One, for example. Why the Court couldn't see this is bizarre.
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@lessig
Dec 20, 2019
My oped in the LA Times: Why Mayor Pete's 'wine cave' dinner is beside the point -
Opinion: Why Mayor Pete's 'wine cave' dinner is beside the point
From latimes.com
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@lessig
Jan 11, 2018
-@aaronsw, +5 Five years ago, we lost Aaron Swartz. None should rest, for still, there is no peace.
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@lessig
Dec 29, 2019
Brilliant event with @SenSanders tonight in Concord with @ZephyrTeachout. Every answer, perfect - especially his committing to @RoKhanna’s democracy vouchers and making reform issue number 1.
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@lessig
Dec 23, 2023
Can't quite believe this is happening, but Congress is gone so the law is not changing! Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain
Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter Public Domain: ‘It’s Finally Happening’
From variety.com
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