It’s not necessarily legal.

The judge hasn’t ruled yet on whether Musk broke the law. He simply declined to issue a preliminary injunction.

A preliminary injunction tells someone to stop what they are doing while the court case plays out. In order to get a preliminary injunction, you have to convince a judge that there will be irreparable harm by letting someone continue.

In other words, a judge might rule against an injunction but nevertheless end up ruling against the defendant. Especially if the judge thinks the harm has already been done.

Summary judgment just means neither side needs to call witnesses or engage in discovery.

I’m not sure that applies here, but if so it doesn’t necessarily favor the DA.

• This is a lawsuit, not criminal charges. It could be bad for Musk (see: Engoron decision) but there is no risk of arrest or jail. Yet.
• Defendants who lose lawsuits cannot be pardoned. Only criminal charges can be pardoned.
• “All parties must be present” means someone on the defendant’s side must be present. It is not unusual for only the lawyer(s) to attend.
• The case has been moved to federal court for now. But it could be moved back if the federal court decides it belongs in state court.

You don’t need ID to register to vote in Virginia. You just need to fill out a form.

You do need ID to actually vote, though. So bring it to the poll regardless.

Fun fact: 90% of the cells in your body are bacteria.

Countries have complicated trade for centuries. Free trade is a modern exception, not the historical rule.

And in principle, countries have as much right to restrict trade with Cuba as they do with Russia and Israel. It’s the same principle that allows people to call for boycotts of Amazon and Starbucks. All of these things can affect the lives of millions, in an effort to bring about political change.

Doubtful. For the same reason that Trump criticizing / threatening judges isn’t grounds for recusal or mistrial.

People born in American Samoa generally consider themselves citizens of American Samoa. Even though they have US passports, they can vote for their own government and write their own laws. Including laws that might be overturned by American courts if American Samoans were fully US citizens.

For example, there are restrictions on buying land in American Samoa if you are not a “blood” descendant of American Samoans.

It is prohibited to alienate any lands except freehold lands to any person who has less than one-half native blood…

If a person who has any nonnative blood marries another person who has any nonnative blood, the children of such marriage cannot inherit land unless they are of at least one-half native blood.

In other words, Mark Zuckerburg cannot swoop into American Samoa and buy half of an island.

That’s why it’s not so surprising that the government of American Samoans, as well as a majority of its citizens, is opposed to becoming US citizens. They have seen what happened to native Hawaiians, and they don’t want the same.

Ok, technically they are US nationals but not US citizens. They still have US passports, but their passports are slightly different.

International law defines a “stateless” person as neither a national nor a citizen of any country. So the UN Conventions on Statelessness do not apply to American Samoans. Likewise the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights provide guarantees of “nationality”, not citizenship.

Which islanders are you referring to?

People born in Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa all have American citizenship (just like Puerto Ricans).

Musk isn’t giving everyone a million dollars. He’s giving people lottery tickets, and they might be worth a million dollars but are far more likely to be worthless.

You can buy such lottery tickets yourself, and they cost about the same as a cup of coffee.

There are lots of cafes that give free coffee to people wearing “I voted” stickers on Election Day. Is that illegal? Because it’s basically the same thing.

IQ is your performance on an IQ test. It’s not subjective at all, for the same reason that SAT math scores are not subjective.

The real question is whether SAT scores and/or IQ scores have anything to do with what we consider “intelligence”.

“When working for them” means “when they pay you”. The point is that the corporation must financially compensate the artist. That’s how copyright makes art into a livelihood.

Without copyright, corporations can use art without ever paying the artist at all.

Once the heart stops beating, the organs fail. Including the heart itself.

That’s kind of the point of defining brain death. Normally death is declared after the heart stops beating. In brain death, the heart is beating but the brain is not receiving any blood.

She was caring for him for three years.

You cannot be brain dead for three years. Brain death is legal death. Once you are declared brain dead, you are officially a cadaver and won’t be going home. You are going to the morgue that day, with possibly a brief initial stop in the operating room if you’re an organ donor.

Without copyright, the artist would be unemployed. Because the corporation he now works for could just take his photos without paying him.

Copyright protects his livelihood. And THAT is one massive reason why copyright is necessary.

Sadly, rape and murder are all too human evils.

Maybe they are trying to convince you that Hamas is evil.

Well, Israeli war aims included diminishing Hamas. But they also included returning any hostages who are still alive. So I think the fighting will continue at least in the short term.

For those curious this is not as bonkers as the title suggests. Just run-of-the-mill police state injustice.

The artwork prompted school authorities to file a police report, leading to the investigation of Moskalyov’s social media activity.

Moskalyov was sentenced to two years in prison, following his outspoken online posts against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine