“Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
“Register Perlmutter is a patriot, and her tenure has propelled the Copyright Office into the 21st century by comprehensively modernizing its operations and setting global standards on the intersection of AI and intellectual property.
“This action once again tramples on Congress’s Article One authority and throws a trillion-dollar industry into chaos. When will my Republican colleagues decide enough is enough?”
I’m sorry but by what authority does the executive branch get to fire a legislative branch employee?
the only real authority
“who is going to stop me”
Unmm any if the hundreds of legislators
the law only matters if there are people willing and able to enforce it
the constitution isn’t magic, i would have thought libs would have figured that out by nowSeems extremely spineless even for them
Why do people keep listening to the executive branch? They aren’t in charge of the entire government, though they are trying to act like it.
I mean, there was one person that didn’t in this article, and they got fired.
But they aren’t under executive branch pervue, the executive branch can say whatever they want and they don’t have to listen. If some guy from sales tells you that you’re fired, and you work in shipping and receiving, so you listen to them? No, you call your boss and ask who this yahoo is.
And then you are fired if that sales guy is actually running the show. Politics…
When will my Republican colleagues decide enough is enough?”
It’s never enough. That’s the thing. Long as they have power, they will not let it go and let things be as long as they retain it.
This is what drives me nuts about both sides the same. Democrats still resign from scandal (or if their assholish enough switch parties) and they bring their own members to task. Has not happened with republicans this millenium.
That’s why I don’t respect Democrats as fully. They think if they play by the rules and do all of these honorable political moves (whatever is left or what they are anymore anyways) that they’ll gain public favor. However, it doesn’t work as well as they think because all it does it wither down public trust and faith because the Republicans happily destroy things in a matter of days to even hours. Irreparable damage or damage that’ll last for several administrations to fix.
All that Republicans will do is just kick Democrats to the curb and mock all honest and honorable gestures. They’re a party of dishonor and decay. Democrats need to fight fire with fire, but they don’t have the spine to do it, they’ll just fall in line just as we’ve seen with Jan 6th this year, just as we’ve seen when Trump was making all of those demands at one point and Schumer followed suit. No spine. Nothing.
well it does win favor with folks like me. Its not acceptable for anyone to not play by the rules. If trump played by the rules I would begrudgingly accept his presidency and not protest and such.
This makes what happened to Aaron just that much more pointless.
RIP
His ex quoted him as saying ‘they don’t let felons work in there’ referring to the white house. Yeah, they do.
“copyright for thee but not for me”
piracy is moral, don’t listen to them
So the president can fire legislative branch employees? Why/how?
