Disclosures

Independence

Independent. Not the government, not a law firm, not an association, and not owned by any company whose product we might link. No law gets in or stays out because of who pays us.

How the letter makes money

An issue may carry one affiliate link, at most, marked as one where it sits, and never in a subject line. When a reader signs up through it, the company pays us a commission. No loan, insurance or credit offers, ever. The link did not decide what went in, and a company we earn from gets no softer read.

When we correct a wrong number on someone’s page, a news outlet, a video or an association may be named. A software vendor is not, while any affiliate deal exists, because that is where a correction starts to look like an ad. The correction names the claim, the date we read it, and the statute.

Sources and rights

Statutes, bills and court opinions are quoted from the legislature’s and the court’s own copies, or from a public case-law archive where the court’s copy won’t load, in short quotes with the section cited; the law belongs to no one. Everything else is in our words, with credit and a link, and we never copy a table or a list from anyone’s page.

Images

Our own drawings and charts, or public-domain data with a source line. The masthead’s letter plate was drawn by us, nothing traced, from two public-domain references: a Reading Hardware catalog of 1899 (archive.org, Public Domain Mark 1.0) and an iron mail slot in the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum (CC0), lettered in Besley under the Open Font License. No AI-made or AI-edited image, anywhere: a letter that reports California’s AB 2025, which puts a label on those in rental ads, does not carry one. No seals, flags or emblems of any state.