On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be friends no Social Networking sites. This according to " The Legal Professional Blog ". Lawyers cannot accept or add lawyers as friends on Facebook. As it creates a sort of conflict of interest when it turns out that the same lawyers representing clients apprear the very same Judges. Stephen Gillers a legal expert from New York said that this went too far as Lawyers and Judges are friends in real life. "Judges do not “ drop out of society when they become judges ,” he said. “The people who were their friends before they went on the bench remained their friends, and many of them were lawyers.” Some lawyers on the other hand think that this could be a good idea and help to avoid any misgivings that would possibly arise. Lawyers can nonetheless take heart as they can add themselves as Fans of judges. Found on mediapostnews "At the same time, some judges have been accused of crossing an ethical line on Facebook. In June, Nor...