Author: TSA Press

Election
nerds
and
high
school
civics
teachers
will
absolutely
delight
in
the
new
PBS
special,

DEADLOCK:
an
election
story.
And,
frankly,
the
interesting
(if
overly
earnest)
documentary
is
worth
a
watch
for
anyone
looking
to
turn
down
the
highly
partisan
election
rhetoric.
The
special,
hosted
by
UC
Davis
School
of
Law
professor

Aaron
Tang,
plays
a
game
of
“what
would
you
do”
with
a
political
all-star
panel^[1]
roleplaying
how
they’d
handle
an
election
dilemma
in
the
fictional
state
of
Middlevania.

As
Tang
notes,
“The
current
climate
of
American
discourse
finds
us
deeply
entrenched
and
overconfident
in
our
own
beliefs.
DEADLOCK
aims
to
illuminate
how,
for
many
of
the
difficult
challenges
facing
our
nation,
the
honest
answers
are
nuanced
and
complex.
Our
goal
is
to
spark
open-mindedness
and
help
people
find
the
middle
ground
instead
of
retreating
to
our
usual
corners.”

Certainly
a
laudable
goal.
In
furtherance
of
that
bipartisan
tone,
the
show
is
introduced
by
Supreme
Court
justices
Sonia
Sotomayor
and
Amy
Coney
Barrett.
The
pair
highlight
the
similarities
and
differences
in
their
backgrounds,
both
telling
anecdotes
from
their
past
highlighting
their
belief
in
community
and
civic-mindedness.
The
justices
explain
that
they
see
the
program
as
a
way
to
rebuild
trust
in
institutions
—
something

the
Supreme
Court
is
acutely
interested
in,
one
imagines.

As
high
minded
as
those
goals
may
be,
the
inclusion
of
the
justices
rings
hollow.
I
was
provided
an
advance
copy
of
the
program
and
watching
Sotomayor
and
Coney
Barrett
trying
to

reclaim
the
veneer
of
neutrality
for
the
Court
just
felt
rich.
Over
the
last
four
years
(and
even
longer
than
that,
if
we’re
being
perfectly
honest)
the
conservative
majority
on
the
Supreme
Court
has
repeatedly
demonstrated
it’s
primarily
interested
in
advancing

partisan
policy
goals.
The
Court
is
stripping
rights
and
hoping
to

re-make
the
nation
to
their
liking
regardless
of
what

established
precedent,

norms,
or
even

public
opinion
says.

Sotomayor
KNOWS
this
—
that’s
why
she
says

she
cries
over
her
colleagues’
decisions
and
issued
a

dire
warning
for
democracy
in
the
dissent
in
the
Trump
immunity
case.
And,
not
for
nothing,
but
Coney
Barrett’s
plea
on
behalf
of
the
common
good
would
be
a
lot
more
meaningful
if
she
didn’t

use
her
role
on
the
High
Court
to

weaken
voting
rights
and
dilute
the
power
of
Black
voters.

But,
overall,
DEADLOCK
provides
an
interesting
look
at
how
people
sort
through
the
ethical
dilemmas
baked
into
an
election.
It
premieres
nationwide
tonight
Sept.
20,
2024,
9
p.m.
ET
(check
local
listings)
and
streams
on


PBS.org, YouTube and
the PBS
app.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
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so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
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with
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tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
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[1]
Panelists:
Dr.
Rachel
Bitecofer,
political
strategist;
Adrian
Fontes,
Arizona
secretary
of
state;
Dr.
Eddie
S.
Glaude,
Jr.,
James
S
McDonnell
professor
of
African
American
studies,
Princeton
University;
Katie
Harbath,
CEO,
Anchor
Change
and
former
Facebook
executive;
Astead
Herndon,
national
politics
reporter,
The
New
York
Times
and
host,
The
Run-Up;
Jeh
C.
Johnson,
former
secretary
of
Homeland
Security
and
former
general
counsel,
Department
of
Defense;
Elise
Jordan,
NBC/MSNBC
political
analyst;
Kris
Kobach,
Kansas
attorney
general;
Mick
Mulvaney,
former
U.S.
representative
for
South
Carolina
and
NewsNation
contributor;
Russell
Moore,
editor
in
chief,
Christianity
Today
and
author;
Scott
Pelley,
CBS
60
Minutes
correspondent;
and
Gabriel
Sterling,
COO,
Office
of
the
Georgia
Secretary
of
State

According
to
a
now-deleted
post
on

Reddit,
a
constitutional
law
course
at
the
West
Virginia
University
College
of
Law
“showed
us
3-4
min
of
hardcore
porn
in
class.”
Presumably
as
part
of
an
unconventional
approach
to
teaching
about
the
Third
Amendment’s
proscription
on
quartering
troops
in
private
homes.

We
reached
out
to
WVU
for
comment
and
they
did
not
respond
one
way
or
the
other,
though
multiple
posters
in
the
ensuing
thread
either
claimed
to
be
in
the
class
and
confirmed
the
story
or
purported
to
be
past
students
and
confirmed
that
this
comports
with
their
experience
in
class.

On
behalf
of
professors
everywhere,
I
am
once
again
encouraging
you
to
read
the
syllabus.
Where
it
says
“Debbie
Does
Blackacre,”
that’s
your
queue
to
gear
up
for
a
wild
ride.

Delivering
a
cold
pizza
might
trigger
the
implied
warranty
of
merchantability
and
that
kid
is
NOT
missing
those
points.

In
fact,
this
is
one
of
the
power
moves
that

forced
a
federal
judge
to
resign.

But
as
the
response
above
notes,
it
does
seem
as
though
whatever
pedagogical
value
exists
in
regaling
the
class
with
visual
aides
would
be
equally
if
not
better
served
by
showing

Last
Tango
in
Paris
or
something.
Deciding
not
to
show
the
stuff
falling
on
that
side
of
the
border
in
favor
of
someone
riding
a
sybian
(which
one
post
claimed
to
have
been
part
of
the
materials)
is
a
choice
to
be
provocative
for
the
sake
of
provocative
without
adding
much
educationally.

Though,
and
hear
me
out
here,
you
also
don’t
have
to

show
anything.

This
routinely
comes
up
whenever
some
white
libertarian
bro
professor
decides
to

drop
the
n-word
in
class
to
talk
about
free
speech.
It’s
always
defended
one
of
two
ways
(sometimes
both
at
once).

First,
the
classroom
performance
art
is
described
as
“necessary”
for
students
to
understand
the
underlying
controversy
as
though
every
law
student
in
America
is
breathtakingly
stupid.
As
we
wrote
before:

This
is
the
recurring
theme
of
every
one
of
these
incidents
—
there’s
never
a
scenario
where
just
saying
“racial
epithets
were
used”
doesn’t
accomplish
every
conceivable
pedagogical
goal
unless
you’re
teaching Intro
To
Correctly
Pronouncing
Slurs.
And
yet
we
keep
having
these
incidents
where
white
professors
seem
convinced
that
without
their
elegant
recitation
of
these
terms,
law
students
will
be
left
befuddled
as
to
what
could
have
possibly
been
said.
There
is
a
grand
paradox
in
how
these
professors
routinely
manage
to
cast
aspersions
on
the
maturity
of
students
for
needing
events
“sugar-coated”
even
though
it’s
precisely
because
these
are
highly
educated
and
sophisticated
students
that
they
don’t
need
to
a
full
dramatic
reproduction
to
be
able
to
fill
in
these
gaps.

This
goes
for
porn
too.
Every
other
law
school
manages
to
teach
students
how
to
navigate

Jacobellis
v.
Ohio
sufficiently
well
enough
to
pass
a
test
without
having
to
watch

The
Fertile
Octogenarian
(the
most
terrifying

legally
themed
porn
title).

Second,
they’ll
dial
up
the
toxic
bravado
and
explain
that
lawyers
need
to
be
tough
and
if
any
law
student
who
can’t
take
a
few
slurs
—
or
in
this
case
a
few…
other
things
—
they
aren’t
cut
out
for
the
profession.
Which
is
bullshit.
Some
aspiring
ERISA
attorney
isn’t
disqualified
from
the
profession
because
they
don’t
want
to
be
forced
to
experience
the
fact
pattern
of
every
case
they
read
in
law
school.

Seriously,
do
not
make
people
watch
porn.
This
shouldn’t
be
so
difficult.

Earlier:

Stanford
Joins
List
Of
Law
Schools
With
White
Professors
Using
The
N-Word
In
Class

---

Joe
Patrice is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
Feel
free
to email
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments.
Follow
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on Twitter or

Bluesky
if
you’re
interested
in
law,
politics,
and
a
healthy
dose
of
college
sports
news.
Joe
also
serves
as
a

Managing
Director
at
RPN
Executive
Search.

HARARE
–
Armed
men
claiming
to
be
law
and
order
police
raided
the
home
of
Daily
News
editor
Guthrie
Munyuki
at
dawn
on
Friday
after
sister
publication
The
Financial
Gazette
made
an
error
in
an
advert
which
suggested
President
Emmerson
Mnangagwa
was
dead.

Munyuki
was
not
home
at
the
time
but
the
gunmen
temporarily
seized
his
wife
and
children’s
phones
and
examined
their
communications,
a
Daily
News
executive
briefed
on
the
raid
said.

“Guthrie’s
brother
also
lives
in
the
same
neighbourhood
in
Westgate
and
he
too
was
woken
up
by
nearly
a
dozen
men
driving
in
a
Toyota
Fortuner
and
a
Toyota
Hilux.
They
demanded
to
know
Guthrie’s
whereabouts,”
the
executive
said,
speaking
on
condition
they
were
not
named.

When
she
left
the
house
on
her
morning
run
in
their
neighbourhood,
Munyuki’s
wife
reported
being
trailed
by
some
of
the
men,
while
others
guarded
the
house.

Lawyer
Alex
Muchadehama
was
due
to
meet
the
police
on
Friday
morning
seeking
clarity
on
the
situation.

The
Financial
Gazette
ran
an
advert
on
Thursday
inserted
by
the
Zimbabwe
Defence
Forces
congratulating
Mnangagwa
on
his
82nd
birthday.

The
advert
concluded:
“May
his
soul
rest
in
eternal
peace.”

On
Friday,
the
Daily
News
published
an
apology
blaming
the
error
on
“lapses
in
the
production
process.”

“We
apologise
profusely
to
President
Mnangagwa,
his
family,
his
office,
the
government
and
the
ZDF
for
the
anguish
and
inconvenience
that
this
inadvertent
mistake
caused,”
the
paper
said.

Advert
mistakes
are
not
uncommon
in
Zimbabwean
newspapers
as
adverts
are
managed
by
advertising
department
staff
who
typically
use
old
templates
for
regular
advertisers,
only
tweaking
the
wording.
Editors
rarely
see
the
adverts
before
publication.

The
timing
could
not
have
come
at
a
worse
time
for
the
publication,
just
days
after
a
military
helicopter
due
to
fly
President
Mnangagwa
from
Masvingo
to
Harare
crashed
while
taking
off
to
go
and
pick
him
up
from
Bikita.

Sources
said
paranoia
among
Mnangagwa
aides
and
loyalists
was
“running
rampant”
so
much
so
he
is
contemplating
skipping
the
annual
United
Nations
General
Assembly
in
New
York.

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As


attorneys
argue

over
the
free
speech
and
national
security
implications
of
the
U.S.
government’s
attempt
to
ban
or
force
the
sale
of
TikTok,
others
view
the
impact
of
the
popular
video
app
through
a
different
lens.

According
to
a
recent
Harris
Poll
of
1,006
adults
aged
18
to
27,


47%
wish
that
TikTok
had
never
been
invented.
Most
of
those
surveyed
are
regular
users
of
social
media,
with
62%
spending
at
least
four
hours
a
day
on
social
media. 

TikTok
isn’t
the
only
social
media
platform
whose
existence
many
Gen
Z-ers
regret.
Thirty-seven
percent
said
they
wish
Facebook
had
never
been
invented,
43%
feel
the
same
way
about
Snapchat,
and
50%
wish
X/Twitter
had
never
been
invented.

Challenge
to
TikTok
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Faces
First
Amendment
Scrutiny
at
DC
Circuit
[National
Law
Journal]

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Gen
Z
Has
Regrets
[The
New
York
Times]

Healthcare
leaders
are
finally
starting
to
take
cybersecurity
off
the
back
burner,
with
most
provider
and
payer
organizations

ramping
up
their
spending
in
this
area
in
the
midst
of
proliferating
cyberattacks.

During
a
panel
discussion
held
Wednesday
at

MedCity
News’

INVEST
Digital
Health
conference
in
Dallas,
healthcare
leaders
shared
their
insight
on
what
needs
to
change
in
order
to
improve
the
industry’s
defense
posture
and
resilience
to
increasing
threats.

There
needs
to
be
an
organization-wide
culture
of
awareness

When
it
comes
to
cybersecurity,
a
company
is
often
only
as
strong
as
its
weakest
link,
pointed
out
Andrew
Molosky,
CEO
of
Tampa-based

Chapters
Health
System
as
well
as
its
subsidiary

CareNu,
which
focuses
on
value-based
care
in
the
Medicare
Advantage
space.

One
employee
opening
a
phishing
email
could
be
all
it
takes
for
a
cybersecurity
disaster
to
strike,
so
healthcare
organizations
must
build
a
culture
of
cybersecurity
awareness
among
all
employees,
he
said.

“We
have
clinical
protocols,
financial
protocols
and
technological
protocols
for
all
our
environments.
If
you
have
the
notion
that
for
some
reason
cybersecurity
is
a
task,
or
that
it’s
just
a
department,
or
that
it’s
somebody
else’s
problem
—
you’re
already
off
to
a
bad
start,”
Molosky
declared.
“When
everybody
wearing
a
name
badge
for
the
organization
in
any
capacity
recognizes
this
as
being
just
as
critical
as
the
procedures
or
as
the
pharmaceuticals
or
as
any
other
component
of
the
medical
delivery,
then
all
of
a
sudden
you
have
an
actual
cultural
awareness.” 

In
order
to
improve
their
defense
posture,
healthcare
organizations
need
to
make
sure
that
all
employees
have
at
least
basic
cybersecurity
training,
he
noted.
In
his
view,
cybersecurity
can’t
be
viewed
as
a
specialized
practice
—
it
must
be
a
core
consideration
in
the
organization’s
daily
operations.

New
tech
must
be
built
with
a
high
regard
for
cybersecurity

Healthcare
organizations
are
adopting
new
technologies
at
a
rapid
rate
—
a
report
released
this
week
by
Bain
&
Company
and
KLAS
Research

showed
that
three-quarters
of
the
nation’s
providers
and
payers
say
they
have
increased
their
tech
and
IT
spending
over
the
past
year.

With
all
this
new
technology
also
comes
additional
risks,
noted
John
Mowery,
chief
information
security
officer
at

Houston
Methodist. 

“We
can’t
manage
the
deluge
of
the
innovation
that’s
coming
in,
nor
the
immaturity
of
the
security
of
those
[tools].
That’s
a
tidal
wave
that
we
can’t
manage,”
he
declared.

As
new
solutions
continue
to
enter
the
market,
the
industry
needs
to
come
together
to
ensure
these
tools
are
being
built
with
a
security-first
mindset,
Mowery
said.

He
also
noted
that
it’s
important
for
hospital
leaders
to
stay
engaged
with
their
innovation
ecosystem
and
try
to
be
aware
of
all
new
technologies
that
are
being
deployed
within
the
organization.

Oftentimes,
a
new
tool
will
be
introduced
in
a
physician
network
or
specialty
group,
and
then
the
hospital’s
cybersecurity
leaders
won’t
find
out
about
it
until
it’s
nearly
installed,
he
said.

“That
creates
challenges
and
risk
for
the
organization,
but
also
it
increases
the
burden
on
us,
because
we
now
have
to
go
figure
out
how
to
remediate
all
of
that
risk,”
Mowery
explained.

Maybe
healthcare
needs
some
more
cybersecurity
leaders
from
outside
the
industry

Healthcare
organizations
looking
to
build
out
their
cybersecurity
programs
should
look
for
leaders
with
a
diversity
of
experience,
recommended
Ben
Schwering,
chief
information
security
officer
at

Premier.

“A
lot
of
times
when
I
talk
to
healthcare
organizations,
or
I
see
job
postings
for
security
leaders
or
engineers,
I’ll
always
see
‘must
have
10+
years
in
healthcare’
or
‘must
have
25
years
in
healthcare.’
I
don’t
agree
with
that. 
I’d
much
rather
see
someone
with
some
diverse
experience
come
in
because
they
will
look
at
things
in
a
new
way,”
he
explained.

Leaders
who
come
from
outside
the
healthcare
world
will
often
flag
things
that
might
go
unnoticed
by
people
who
have
been
hyper-focused
on
healthcare
for
their
entire
careers,
Schwering
noted.

Photo:
Nick
Fanion,
Breaking
Media