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An analysis of the political calculations and expectations surrounding John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination and confirmation.
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Supreme Court nominations of the president. Their hope was that he would essentially at worst be a Rehnquist figure.
And Rehnquist had a lot of, well, was very conservative and had a down the line conservative voting record and also came under scrutiny for some sort of some personal questions or questionable decisions in his past.
So am I getting
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Analyzing the influential network behind Supreme Court appointments, focusing on key accomplice C. Boyden Gray and his background.
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Well, one of the people that most people don't know about is Seabroiden Gray. And he was the White House counsel for George Herbert Walker Bush. He's the person who helped get Clarence Thomas installed on the court.
And by the time John Roberts was nominated to the DC Circuit and then the Supreme Court, Gray was basically orchestrating an outside
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This is Joe Overton
The famous "Overton Window" is named after him
It's the best mental model for understanding how political change ACTUALLY happens
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Glad to see my piece for the American Journal of Jurisprudence symposium on Adrian Vermeule’s “Common Good Constitutionalism” is now online. Basic message: treating the classical legal tradition and liberalism as radically opposed underestimates both
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To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experiencing. “Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of... See more
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | There Is No Going Back
After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.”
Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder Joe Liemandt is the product guy behind... See more