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Whether free and fair elections can be saved with the SAVE Act is the first topic of debate this week, along with a celebration of the Trump Administration rolling back the EPA's power to make our energy scarce and expensive. Steve describes this bold step as the "Inchon Landing" in the war against the administrative state. Forget Nixon-to-China cliches: only Trump could take such a bold step that no other conventional Republican would dare take.
We also spend a good deal of time recalling the passing, ten years ago now, of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose shadow over contemporary jurisprudence continues to lengthen. We think Scalia is displacing Holmes as the most significant jurist of the last century for his enduring influence and for his central role in reviving constituitional originalism, even though he once described himself as a "faint-hearted originalist." There's a paradox at work in Scalia's jurisprudential legacy that requires someone like G.K. Chesterton to understand—and that, kids, ought to be a strong hint as to exactly what it is.
John Yoo
'Lucretia'
Steve Hayward
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Scalia never met an over reach of government power he wouldn't support, so long as it was the government over regular people.
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I was briefly excited this episode but I think y'all forgot to explain what exactly Trump rolled back, and how that affects the EPA's regulatory power. I trust you'll amend this next week with
MORE CLEAN AIR ACT CONTENT!!
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Also, I'd like Professor Yoo's opinion on this criminally underreported news item:
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How does that explain Scalia's lonely dissent in Morrison v. Olson?
Personally I differed with Scalia when I thought he was too willing to cite the police power for government overreach. On that score, Clarence Thomas - my choice for greatest Supreme Court Justice in history - is better.
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The extent to which John is a normie on voter fraud is astounding. The major problem is not registrations; it’s ballots. Sending out millions of absentee ballots without controls has led to fraud on an industrial scale.
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