Evan Kirshenbaum
Evan Kirshenbaum
@evankirshenbaum.bsky.social
[he/him] Software researcher, inventor, erstwhile linguist, book lover, bad bassist, former youth soccer ref and baseball coach, Stanford grad, proud dad, and devoted husband. AUE regular back when Usenet was a thing. (Yeah, ASCII/IPA was me.)
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Am I the only one flashing on the Moscow embassy? If this is allowed, the next administration* is going to have to get rid of them. *Big assumption, I know.
(NYT) - President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
Amazing. He's really going with the "They're not subject to U.S. jurisdiction" argument. Just like people with diplomatic immunity. Who can't be charged with a crime. Anybody with that status who ever got so much as a parking ticket should sue the government and force them to defend the opposite.
Even if it wasn't guaranteed in the Constitution (which, of course, it is), it's enacted by statute (8 USC 1401(a). If they claim that they're "not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, then they'd presumably have to explain why it's okay to charge them with crimes.
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