I have literally said this before! On this very account! But in the long run, if you don’t start protecting the rules, the gun fights just devolve. I know we are in for a long ass gun fight. I can’t shoot for shit. - ThreadSky

courtneymilan.com • 41 days ago

I have literally said this before! On this very account!

But in the long run, if you don’t start protecting the rules, the gun fights just devolve.

I know we are in for a long ass gun fight. I can’t shoot for shit.

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courtneymilan.com•41 days ago

I’m not a gun fighter.

I am a person who believes in principles.

If we are going to keep ourselves from unending rounds of gun fights, by GOD we are going to have to keep bringing our rule books to the gun fights.

vrimj.bsky.social•41 days ago

Violence is always an option. It is the work of civilization to put as many better options in place as possible.

shadur.bsky.social•41 days ago

Unfortunately all of them stem from the premise that both sides of the argument agree that it is better to have civilization than it is to get your way.

And the GOP realized that the first party who *stops* cooperating has a major advantage.

courtneymilan.com•41 days ago

I am going to be at the gun fights, shouting out that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen, period.

And if we are going to get out of this thing it will be because people like you and me refuse to let go of it.

courtneymilan.com•41 days ago

We, the people, are the goddamn rule book. We always have been. And if we stick to it, instead of giving up, we will prevail.

emmakjarvis.bsky.social•41 days ago

The govt lawyers brief reads like something I wrote in college where I had only read one part of the assigned reading and was just holding onto it and writing about it like I knew everything we were supposed to read.

courtneymilan.com•41 days ago

Finally, I did not write historical romances for all these years to let people think that duels don’t have rules.

BRING THE RULES TO YOUR GUNFIGHTS

Please and thank you.

worddancer21.bsky.social•41 days ago

Thank you for bringing the rules to this gunfight. 🙌🏻

adman-c.bsky.social•41 days ago

Thank you so sooo much for that clear and absolutely spot-on analysis. I wish you had written some of my law school texts—it would have made preparing for class a whole lot easier!

drwordperson.bsky.social•41 days ago

It's true. There's a really good paper by Stephanie Jamison about how various Indo-European traditions inherited marriage by abduction as a legal tradition...which also meant abduction marriage had legal requirements!

drwordperson.bsky.social•41 days ago

And so a lot of the wrangling over Paris and Helen in the Iliad is a fossilized half-remembered version of these legal traditions (did Paris abduct her legally?????? Did he really have a claim?????) that are stated explicitly in other traditions, e.g. India.

https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article-abstract/13/1/5/25510/Draupadi-on-the-Walls-of-Troy-Iliad-3-from-an

birblib.bsky.social•41 days ago

Better yet, have an argument over the rules.

Like, both duelists and their seconds get into an hour-long debate, citing convention and precedent, over whether they shoot from 15 paces or 20.

arorzoff.bsky.social•41 days ago

Lady, I am so grateful for you. Thanks for taking the time to explain all of this to those of us outside Law World.

xdresstera.bsky.social•41 days ago

👏👏👏

mikestucka.bsky.social•41 days ago

Thank you for bringing such clarity.

drtaragoddard.com•41 days ago

I had a totally different reason to use this gif earlier tonight in a friend group chat, but seems relevant again. 😉

iamsunbird.bsky.social•41 days ago

Bravo. Read the whole thread. Thank you!

artfulscientist.bsky.social•41 days ago

*throws the roberts rules of order at my opponent’s head*

2metermatt.bsky.social•41 days ago

This righteous anger and clear thinking inspires me!

Excellent work!

captjohnparker.bsky.social•41 days ago

Where have you been all my life?

aurasurfer.bsky.social•41 days ago

funny enough i’ve had multiple arguments with people making all the same claims. comparing immigrants to native americans and diplomats (even tho immigrants are afforded NO immunities) and arguing that the ark ruling doesn’t count cuz they weren’t illegal immigrants. it’s just absurd sophistry

aurasurfer.bsky.social•41 days ago

this is why socrates didn’t like lawyers. they twist words in whatever direction suits them at the time and weaponize rhetoric to persuade people with no regard for justice or virtue whatsoever. subjectivism of this kind means all that matters is persuasion and power

michaelc123.bsky.social•41 days ago

The supreme court is bought and paid for. The republicans just need a basic argument that their racist base can get vaguely understand and get behind and a supreme court to pass it and it's a done deal. Project 2025

courtneymilan.com•41 days ago

There is no such thing as a done deal.

michaelc123.bsky.social•41 days ago

I hope you're right but it seems like they've been building up to this for the last 4 years and I'm not so sure about the strength of character of the American legal system

tullyundead.bsky.social•41 days ago

These fuckers don't care about the rules! Fight back, for godsake!

otama56.bsky.social•41 days ago

sfomel.bsky.social•29 days ago

"Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity, and a citizen of California by residence…" Justice Jackson lost but was on the right side of history. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/323/214/

sirobin.com•41 days ago

This is the point the "SCOTUS will just-" people aren't getting. Doesn't matter what they say if the entire country is ready to reply "Bullshit"

shmarr.bsky.social•41 days ago

My rule book is just going to have to be "the social order says you're doing harmful things. Stop that."

mcnutcase.bsky.social•41 days ago

A sufficiently large rulebook can stop bullets.

artfulscientist.bsky.social•41 days ago

it’s also important that we have experts in things like law point out that, yeah, no, this shit is batshit on its face, we aren’t all collectively hallucinating the way shit has worked for the last however long, these monsters rly are just fucking pulling actual literal shit out of their asses.

artfulscientist.bsky.social•41 days ago

the response shouldn’t be “well everything is made up, what do you expect”, it shld be, “sure, everything is made up, BUT THESE FUCKERS ARE JUST LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING.”

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