About
MJR News is a newsletter about law, technology, and the rights that sit between them.
I’m Mark J. Remillard. For nearly a decade I covered American politics, crime, courts and more as a journalist for ABC News. I reported from campaign events up-and-down the East Coast during the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections; I reported from outside the White House as President Biden entered the Oval Office following his inauguration; and I covered some of the most important court cases of the last decade, including those of Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
As a journalist, I also wrote and hosted two investigative podcasts for ABC News. The first was A Killing on the Cape in 2017, which examined the 2002 death of fashion-writer Christa Worthington and the contested conviction of Christopher McCowen for her murder. The podcast was named one of New York Magazine’s top true crime podcasts in 2018 (Pg. 73, July 23-Aug. 5, 2018). The second was Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein in 2020, which was an extensive 10-part project on Epstein, his sex trafficking crimes, and how he made his fortune. Truth and Lies was awarded the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting in network radio, along with three Webby nominations and three Webby honors.
In 2023, I left journalism for law school. While studying at Fordham University School of Law, I interned for U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky in the Southern District of New York, represented indigent clients in misdemeanor cases as part of Fordham Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic, and advocated for the decriminalization of sex work in New York as part of Fordham’s Legislative Advocacy Clinic. I graduated from Fordham Law School in May 2026.
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What I write about here is the intersection of technology, the law, and how they affect our rights. While in law school, I studied, wrote about, and developed a deep interest in information privacy, AI, cybersecurity, and blockchain technology.
Here, we examine how these areas are rapidly developing, how the law is changing to address them (or not), and what those changes might mean for long-recognized rights, such as those against unreasonable searches and seizures, the right against self-incrimination, and the “right to be let alone.”
MJR News looks to educate readers on technological and legal developments in these areas and to empower readers with knowledge and information. My goal is also to write in a way that is digestible and does not assume the worst nor give in to hype.
If you’ve read this newsletter before, you know the beat used to be politics, courts, and the occasional excursion into American history. My new focus narrows that lens but keeps the same instinct: understanding systems, power dynamics, and explaining them clearly.
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Nothing on this Substack reflects the views of anyone but me. Further, nothing on this Substack should be considered legal advice. I’m a writer and law school graduate—but I am not a licensed attorney.
