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It's the usual brawl at the bar with the three barflies of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, where we take note of Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson sayiing the quiet (progressive) part out loud, likely flattered by the New York Review of Books recently saying of her: "Ketanji Brown Jackson is proving to be the sharpest justice on the Supreme Court." (No, seriously—they really printed that sentence.) But did she really just give away the whole anti-democratic impulse of progressives? It looks like she did.
We actually agree that Humphrey's Executor is going to get executed because Slaughter (the party to the case against Trump) ha set it up for the slaughter.
Speaking of slaughtering, we get around to celebrating the seasonal apperance of the McRib, but not before reviewing how his bears on John Yoo's favorite constitutional doctrine, the 'unitary executive,' and we take a brief tour to argue over some of the fine points of the Dred Scott case. Because whisky will do that to you.
John Yoo
'Lucretia'
Steve Hayward
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"Let me make four quick points" might be the most Steve Hayward line ever, right after
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This non-lawyer thought John's specific explication of the meaning of a unitary Executive is precisely why I thought that Bill Clinton HAD to be impeached when he committed felony perjury since he WAS the Executive Branch and perjury was a high crime.
Most of my lawyer friends agreed with me even if they were Clintonians---it was my non-lawyer Clintonian friends who thought I was being preposterous.
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It strikes me that drawing from the Matthew Spaulding Ricochet Podcast discussion and the previous Political Questions articles that the crux of the issue between Linda and John on the efficacy of natural rights is whether one is steeped in its use and reasoning as Spaulding noted as part and parcel of the Founders understanding of the concept of "self evident" truths. I hope that makes sense.
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The turning point for me on COVID when the PH authorities said that George Floyd marches were OK whereas marches against lockdowns were forbidden. Then they decided that Americans must get vaccinated but illegals did not need to get the jab. Some churches got on board (December 2021). The requirement that college students get vaccinated was ridiculous since they were not at risk from COVID and it was known early on that the jab caused heart problems in young me. The experts failed horribly.
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Lucretia ‘ Make slavery legal everywhere, who cares?’
Media Matters - right wing podcaster calls for return to slavery.
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