Eric Goldman

Blog Post: Spam-Filtered Email Service Unwinds a $13M Default Judgment–Imagination Products v. Omont blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Blog Post: City Government Can Use Facebook’s Anti-Bot Tool–Jalisi v. Poway blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Yesterday, I deposited my ballot in the dropbox near the city library. Ballots come with an "I voted" sticker. There were several sticker designs. I especially liked the California poppies design I got flic.kr/p/2sJiVYn

The Santa Clara Law building, Charney Hall, is beautiful all year round flic.kr/p/2sFF5J2

Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

Obama: "The guy has become billions of dollars wealthier in office. Nobody disputes this! It's just -- how do you do that when you're supposed to be looking out for you? And the worst part of it not a single Republican in Congress has done anything to stop it."

Blog Post: Alex Berenson’s Deplatforming Lawsuit Fails in the Second Circuit–Berenson v. Gottlieb blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Remember when the President directing the DOJ to do literally anything would be a months long scandal that would almost certainly end in impeachment? I miss those days.

Prof. @ericgoldman.bsky.social's poster showing what he did in Summer 2026 drive.google.com/file/d/1-K1U...

Guest Blog Post: Four Justices, One Mega-Publisher, and a Supreme Court Copyright Debacle blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202... by Prof. Guy Rub

literally illegal

Not a surprise from this administration, but both unlawful and incredibly destructive of effective governance. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

If you're ever unclear about what "censorship" looks like...it looks like this:

Brendan Carr again cries "news distortion!" Here's how Mark Fowler, Reagan's first FCC Chair, described Carr in August: "Never in its history has the agency ever acted so corruptly and unlawfully to intrude on broadcasters’ First Amendment rights."

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

A president saying clearly and with his full chest “I am directing the Department of Justice” to do … anything, would have been a five-alarm scandal in previous years. Now? It’s just a Tuesday.

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Blog Post: Call for Papers/Participation, Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference, SCU, March 6, 2027 blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Vance: Our job is to make sure elites in DC don’t get richer by having access to the President of the United States. But I don’t think that’s a concern with Trump.

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Blog Post: Marketing a “California Ethos” Doesn’t Support a California Publicity Rights Lawsuit–Boyden v. Hyundai blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Can you guess which color of felt sheet my wife needed to use next for her art project? 😻 #Caturday flic.kr/p/2sFFvQ4

I am hair-on-fire alarmed. Particularly as a Jew. We’ve been in that place…

Blog Post: Some Discoveries From My Genealogy Research (Part 4 of 4) personal.ericgoldman.org/some-discove...

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.

Blog Post: Should Police Wipe a Criminal’s Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. v. Stathas blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

My latest presentation slide deck on online age authentication mandates www.ericgoldman.org/Speeches/CSG...

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

As amusing as it is, surrounding yourself with unqualified syncophants is a symptom of authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

forward.com/opinion/8561...

Hah hah it's funny because we are murderers

There are exactly zero lawyers who would say this

In the latest entry in the Kakistocracy Khronikles, we are being told to believe the statements of an official government spokesperson who claims she is a "lawyer" but not an "attorney" 🙄 www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/p...

Endless bullshit & hypocrisy. 'So there was no Biden “censorship industrial complex,” but there absolutely is a Trump one... & not a peep from those who falsely argued that it existed under Biden. How strange.' - @masnick.com How strange indeed. All BS all the time. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/m...

My daughter did this illustration of an Indian star tortoise 🐢 flic.kr/p/2sFF2CY

Trump says he actually called the Emir of Qatar and asked him to borrow a plane, which led to Bribe Force One being gifted to him

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.