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We’re going up a day earlier than usual this week, partly because our constantly irregular travel schedules complicated things again, but more importantly to be timely, as John, Steve, and Lucretia have LOTS of thoughts on the Supreme Court argument Thursday about whether ex-presidents should enjoy broad immunity for any or all acts they took while in office. Steve and Lucretia think the president does, while John thinks textual support for the proposition is lacking. Steve and Lucretia respond with an appeal to first principles, and enlist as an expert witness Harvey Mansfield, because of his unique book on the inherent ambivalence of executive power even in a constitutional republic, Taming the Prince. As usual, we fought to a draw.
Our second subject is the ongoing Kristalnacht on campus. There’s not much new to say except to calibrate how cowardly university administrators continue to be, and note that even some liberals, like George Packer in The Atlantic (who provides our article of the week, “The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education“) are starting to figure out what conservatives have known about higher education for two generations now. It’s as if no one ever bothered to notice Closing of the American Mind.
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The J6 defendants should be allowed to sue Garland and the other members of the Injustice Department who have been persecuting them.
I want a t-shirt that says, “Four More Years, Pause!”
Good episode, with insightful discussion of the immunity issue. Some left-leaning friends are making the Ketanji (Lucretia’s favorite justice) argument that why do we have laws if everyone doesn’t have to follow them? What is the best, quick and easy, response to that? I think Lucretia’s speeding ticket example is pretty good.
Lastly, being retired, I do not miss faculty meetings, but I would have given anything to have been in that meeting when Lucretia admonished her colleagues about political activity. Fabulous.
I don’t know when John recorded with Mark Levin BUT they were both superb on the Saturday Levin show….by the way, my wife agrees with Lucrecia that Levin yells whereas I find him to be “righteously and correctly indignant and enthusiastic!”
Highly recommended airing, nevertheless.
I saw this and knew I had to show Lucretia…..
Even better if it was “That’s a pretty big word for my 9-year-old daughter.”
Emergency vehicles are allowed certain leeway in emergency situations, but they can’t just speed to get to lunch or something – which cops often do – and they’re required to use emergency signals such as lights and/or siren. Just speeding to get to lunch, or not using required emergency signals even in an emergency situation, is illegal and police – and others involved – should face HIGHER punishment for that, since they are to be held to a HIGHER standard, NOT a LOWER one which too often is what actually happens.