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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2026

FOUNDING CODEA Daily Record of AI and Constitutional Civil Liberty

Vol. I · No. 50 · Compiled 5:30 A.M. Eastern

A project built and maintained by Chanel Rion

About

Chanel Rion, Editor-in-Chief of Founding Code

Chanel Rion

Editor-in-Chief

Chanel Rion

A.L.B., Harvard UniversityJ.D., Regent University

Desk
AI & Civil Liberties
Lens
Originalist · Pro-innovation

Chanel Rion founded Founding Code to keep a daily record of the Constitution as it meets the machine — for the lawyer with a hearing at ten, the organizer with a council meeting at seven, and the citizen who intends to remain both.

She holds an A.L.B. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Regent University. Her specialty is the crossing of artificial intelligence and civil liberty, read through an originalist Constitution and a frankly pro-capitalist, pro-innovation lens. New tools, in her view, do not receive a waiver from the Bill of Rights; nor should the law become a brake on the American genius for making them.

A journalist by trade and a lawyer by training, she was Chief White House Correspondent under the Trump and Biden White Houses. She built this desk as a brief: dense, ordered, and compiled before the first hearing. She is the founder of the National White House Correspondents' Association, a project in press freedom and viewpoint diversity — the same instinct that organizes these nine beats. She is the Primetime Host of Fine Point with Chanel Rion on OAN.

She brings a holistic, pro-constitution, pro-innovation eye to a field that too often speaks in one, statist accent. Founding Code is a project she builds and maintains.

Correspondence contact@foundingcode.com

The edition

How the record is kept

Every edition is compiled at 5:30 A.M. Eastern — after the overnight dockets, before the first hearing. Headlines are drawn from courts, Congress, civil-liberties organizations, and a deliberately mixed press: left, right, and specialist.

The front page is meant to feel as dense as a classic aggregator and as ordered as a well-kept brief. Nine standing desks hold the same stories a second time, so a reader can enter by urgency or by doctrine.

We do not write the news. We do not host the articles. Every headline opens the original source. Clip what you need; the clips live only on this device.

For whom

  • Litigators tracking training-data, surveillance, and platform cases.
  • Advocates writing testimony, FOIA, and city-council packets.
  • Parents and parishioners watching the school and the sanctuary.
  • Anyone who still thinks the Bill of Rights applies to new machines.

The nine desks

Enter by doctrine

  1. 01Free Speech

    Amend. I

    Whether models, platforms, and statutes may silence — or be silenced.

  2. 02Press & Disinformation

    The Press

    Synthetic news, watermarks, and the fight over who owns the first draft.

  3. 03Religious Liberty

    Free Exercise

    Faith, filtering, and whether a sermon can be written by a machine.

  4. 04Gun Rights

    Amend. II

    Predictive flags, plate readers at gun shows, and the digital militia.

  5. 05Privacy Rights

    Amend. IV

    Face search, plate dragnets, and the death of going unnoticed.

  6. 06Property Rights

    Art. I § 8

    Copyright as the new land war — training data, tax algorithms, takings.

  7. 07Due Process Rights

    Amend. V / XIV

    Secret scores, sealed models, and punishment by probability.

  8. 08Parental Rights

    The Family

    Who consents when a school, a chatbot, or a camera watches a child.

  9. 09Education

    The Schoolhouse

    Grading, surveillance, vendor data, and the new classroom constitution.

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