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"Instead of seeing social order as emerging from the interactions of many diverse persons and groups cooperating in a polycentric system, the far right believes a homogeneous order must be imposed—and imposed in a holistic fashion, incorporating all forms of social interaction"

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During the Great Leap Forward, Mao set unrealistic expectations for food production that resulted in local leaders lying about their actual production in order to please superiors and avoid punishment

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There's some good snail darter content in this episode.

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This is delightful. From it you'll learn Stephen Fry wrote a fan letter to PGW when he was 14 & got a signed photo in return. PGW died not too long thereafter. Fry had that photo with him when they filmed Jeeves & Wooster.

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This book and author are coming to an episode of @shortcircuitij.bsky.social soon as well . . .

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

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Question I asked a lot from 2017-21: What does the unitary executive theory have to say about this? Does the "one executive" speak thru the President's own mouth or his lawyers? Which should a judge who believes in the UET follow?

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Marcy makes a very nice point here. If Trump asserted that Special Counsel Jack Smith—who was in charge of just two cases against basically one person—was a principal officer who required Senate confirmation, then how could Co-President Musk—who’s remaking the entire government—be anything less?

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You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

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It's the latest episode of Unpublished Opinions, @ij.org's roundtable podcast! Hear our trio debate what's the worst state court rule, how to think about stare decisis, and whether you should practice public interest law. ij.org/podcasts/unp...

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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Don't-miss thread. Judge catches out one of Musk's central slippery moves: serially re-characterizing DOGE and its personnel as first one kind of thing and then another as needed to claim powers and dodge responsibilities. Once they pick one or the other, it becomes clear they're acting illegally.

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ICYMI, I admit to a later-in-life falling for Jane Austen, how she's like Seinfeld & Arrested Development, & what she can teach us about having people over for dinner. www.discoursemagazine.com/p/moving-to-...

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The most dangerous sentiment in politics—perhaps in life—is the complacent shrug of ‘How much worse could it get?’ History, with its usual icy precision, always replies: ‘Oh, you’ll see.’

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I know people are probably tired of this by now but I can’t let it go. Apply this reasoning to enslaved people who were forced into the country after the slave trade was banned. Unlawfully present. No pledge to obey. Anti-birthrighters can’t explain how the 14A nullified Dred Scott.

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1838 demurrer by the Queen of Portugal, arguing that a foreign sovereign could not be a defendant in an English equity court. The English judges disagreed, and she had to submit a full answer [TNA E 112/2368, no 158 - Rothschild v Queen of Portugal]

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Yesterday there was a small service of remembrance marking the 50th anniversary death of PGW at Westminster Abbey. Pictured are Sir Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Sir Edward Cazalet, Wodehouse's step-grandson. With thanks to Patrick Kidd for the photograph.

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“[W]e have to obey the rules of the Eighth Circuit island” and “you’ve got to use the magic words. You didn’t use the magic words.”

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Today I come out as a converted Jane Austen reader, compare her to Seinfeld & Arrested Development, & suggest we can solve some modern ills with more dinner parties. In her 250th year, my Austen love letter in Discourse Magazine. Here’s a tl:dr 🧵 1/ www.discoursemagazine.com/p/moving-to-...

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Roses are red, Violets are blue, I think it's good, actually, that judges enforce unenumerated rights, And so should you.

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One of the AUSAs put on administrative leave by this letter is Hagan Scotten, my former Hogan Lovells colleague. I am not surprised that he would risk his job for his convictions; he has some of the strongest personal integrity of anyone I've worked with.

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Today I come out as a converted Jane Austen reader, compare her to Seinfeld & Arrested Development, & suggest we can solve some modern ills with more dinner parties. In her 250th year, my Austen love letter in Discourse Magazine. Here’s a tl:dr 🧵 1/ www.discoursemagazine.com/p/moving-to-...

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And ironically, a lot of administrative-law precedent that liberals have strongly criticized—including the overruling of Chevron—should become quite useful now.

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Article III, Sec. 2 of the Constitution specifies that the jurisdiction of the federal courts "in Law and Equity" extends to "controversies to which the U.S. shall be a party." That doesn't sound as if they meant to forbid federal judges from issuing orders restraining the United States.

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THE LICENSING RACKET by Rebecca Haw Allensworthis out today! Stay tuned for her interview on Short Circuit this Friday. Even if you think you know everything about occupational licensing you'll learn a lot about both licensing and its boards. www.amazon.com/Licensing-Ra...

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Hey @mayasen.bsky.social, great seeing you here! You might dig this short documentary trailer about my org's 14th Amendment, Section 2, case! fourteensectiontwofilm.com

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Guys, I don't like Presidents disobeying court orders either, but as long as we're talking about it I'm going to bring up when people in the past have said it might be a good idea. This was by no means the first time:

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"The Licensing Racket" https://buff.ly/4jRuB00 Occupational Licensing protects incumbents not consumers, episode 836383:

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