Law Decoded: The guard changes, and with it, the tweets, Jan. 8–15

Law Decoded: The guard changes, and with it, the tweets, Jan. 8–15

Accompanying the presidential transition are some major questions about the role of social media in society and politics. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law.Editor’s noteArmed National Guardsmen are building up concentric perimeters of black barricades around the U.S. Capitol and its whole neighborhood of federal buildings in preparation for the Biden inauguration and protests against it on Wednesday. Which inspires some déjà vu, whether to last week or last summer. As much as history is said to repeat....


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