Debra Schneider

So, I already told you that I’m on ________ side of this issue. What pisses you most off about people like me?

So, you told me that you believe _______ politically. What were two big moments in your life that influenced that belief?

What’s one thing that government either is or isn’t doing right now that, if it were to change tomorrow, would have the

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In 2020, the Yale Law Journal published an interesting essay by alum-attorney James Mooney titled “The Power of Police Officers to Give ‘Lawful Orders.’” In it, Mooney observes that an insistence on overbroad discretion “allows police to needlessly escalate confrontations due to civilian confusion or minor noncompliance.”

That’s a pretty good

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It’s about whether or not I actually believe them, if I can give up the hopes of converting the other person (definitely in the short-term, but perhaps at any point) because I actually feel that there’s something to be gained for understanding more deeply the way others are metabolizing the world we share. And that’s hard!

What I’ll say right now,

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