Ontra’s Insight

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar and the first woman to argue a case before the Court? Hint: This woman was a noted suffragette and politician. She ran for president in 1884 and 1888 for the National Equal Rights Party, and was the first woman to appear on official ballots, but whatever votes she received were all from men, as women could not yet vote. See the answer on the next page.

It is hard to look at the Ninth Amendment and see it as anything other than a deliberate attempt to protect The People from the threat of intensifying bureaucratization. It was well founded — just look at the judiciary. It seems like everyone has varying degrees of discretion: the prosecution can decide which laws to enforce and when, not to mention sheriffs and taking the law in their own hands. But the people?

Count Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York as an artificial intelligence skeptic. At least at this juncture. Describing the party’s use of the tool “misbegotten at the jump,” the judge just shot down a fee request that relied — in part — upon ChatGPT inquiries. Specifically, the Cuddy Law Firm applied for fees after prevailing in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act matter.