Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-copyright-official.html

by donohoe • 9 months ago

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garciasn• 9 months ago

https://archive.is/CW6uI

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There is no detail as to the 'why' to other than 'because we said so.'

pseudalopex• 9 months ago

The 1st attempt to fire her was the day after her office issued a report which said copying without permission to train generative AI may not be legal always.[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-asks-supreme-...

Razengan• 9 months ago

These cyclical democracies really need a way to easily Ctrl/Cmd+Z the damage done during a despotic episode.

embedding-shape3• 9 months ago

Maybe we could reset a democracy every N years (50?) and basically say "Out with everything" and start from scratch.

Wowfunhappy• 9 months ago

How on earth would this work? Would you throw out all of contract and business law? Any permits people have get reset? Is the military disbanded and restarted from scratch?

salawat2• 9 months ago

Originally, Jefferson imagined a state where all acts of legislation came with sunset dates. The idea being that a State would cap out and auto prune itself through the inherent friction of having to reapprove only the most important foundations of itself. Instead of accruing cruft, it'd allow for an equilibrium of law and liberties constantly returning to the public, and only the most unanimously supported measures to stay in force. A government for the living, rather than one of the legacies of the dead, which was favored by Madison.

krapp• 9 months ago

There is an obvious solution but unfortunately it only seems to work on good Presidents.

quuxplusone• 9 months ago

Now, now. McKinley's record was mixed at best.

(And no matter what you think of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt must count as an upgrade, right?)

lschueller• 9 months ago

Another chapter of how undermining societal decision making by ongoingly circumventing instances, which do not act in favor of the own goals. It's highly disturbing how ineffective and weak the judicial system looks like sometimes.

mandolingual• 9 months ago

The judicial system rolls up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court is compromised. It's not a matter of weakness.

bigbadfeline• 9 months ago

An appeals court sided with the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying her role is to work with Congress. ... her post is part of the Library of Congress.

This could be just noise and theatrics, but I won't be surprised if SCOTUS invents another creative interpretation and allows the POTUS to do whatever he wants with the Library of Congress, then with Congress itself and... the sky is the limit.

Not that this particular Congress would even notice.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official

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