The article I chose to do my assignment on is from the Texas Insider and is titled Apple's Involuntary Servitude.

The audience that the author is trying to reach is really everyone who uses a cellphone.  I think the author Judge Andrew Napolitano is in shock at how this situation was handled and not only how it was handled how the outcome turned out.  

The Judge in his article states that the DOJ argued that apple has a legal duty to help solve the mystery of who knew about the San Bernardino attacks so that the guilty can be prosecuted and the rest of of protected from future harm.  

Because Apple denied to help them the DOJ made a key of there own to access the perps phone. 

The warrant was granted although improperly because Apple was not given notice of the DOJ application.   Indeed the Judge states that " this is the most unique search warrant I have ever seen in 40 years of examining them."

The article goes on to say that "essentially, the DOJ wants apple to hack its product, thereby telling anyone who can access the key how to do the same. Apple also knows that if it does create a key for the government that the key itself is at risk of being hacked and therefore jeopardizing all Apple Products and negating the privacy of tens of millions. You know but the lawyers asserted that the government would protect the key apple creates.....

The Judge also goes on to say that the DOJ knows where the data is on the killers cellphone but does not want to make it look like it does because then that would put the lie that the government's denials that it spies upon all of us all the time moot.  

At the end of the article the judge states that more than just the security of our phones are at risk here. He says that he says that " A government that stays within the confines of the constitution is at stake."

So I agree with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.  I think that the way the DOJ handled itself is wrong.  I dont think that Apple should need to compromise the integrity of there security systems and protocols in order to help the DOJ with an investigation.  Because not only would this compromise Apples security but it would just be one step closer to the government having full access to all our information.  Also like the article said if the key gets out there hackers surely will find a way to access it and then they will also have full access to everything. 

U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Obama's Clean Power Plan

On Wednesday,  February 9, 2016 THE TEXAS TRIBUNE published an article titled,
U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Obama's Clean Power Plan.

The article states that on Tuesday the U.S. Supreme court granted a request from Texas and more than two dozen other states to block President Obama's Clean Power Plan. Texas along with West Virginia are leading the charge against President Obama's plan.  The reason that Texas and other states are fighting this is because they say that this plan will push electricity costs too high and that the alternative source of energy would be unreliable.  Not only that they are saying that many jobs would be lost.

"The Clean Power Plan is stayed pending disposition of the applicants' petitions for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,"  Without the stay States would have until Sept. 6 to submit final compliance plans or apply for an extension."

Obviously environmental groups are upset about the decision.  While people like Ken Paxton (Texas Attorney) see this as a victory.  The reason Ken Stated that this is a victory is because of the Americans who feared for the jobs and electric bills sky rocketing.

First of all I can understand that following this Clean Power Plan would put some Americans out of the job.  While I understand this, change is always hard.  But the fact of the matter is Coal power is one of the main causes of major pollution today.  I would rather live in a clean world that is not affected by climate change and pay a little higher bill than the alternative... no world at all.

I would be very interested in finding out exactly how expensive our electricity bills would be after the alternative energy grids were up as well.  They could simply be saying our bills would sky rocket simply to scare us into agreeing with them.  Also these new grids could work well with Tesla's new powerwall ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall).  My point is there is always new and better ways of doing things.

Overall I think this is a very interesting article to read and follow up on because this has consequences for all of us.