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The Volokh Conspiracy
reason.com
Ok. So I study authoritarian regimes for a living. I spend most of my time thinking about how Russia's dictatorship works. But one of my personal side-projects involves looking at authoritarian theorists closer to home. The most prominent by far is Curtis Yarvin. https://t.co/LnkVPpyydL
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
... See moreThe judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Reminder that Peter Thiel is, to put it mildly, not a cypherpunk https://t.co/aZQ1AUUCOb
Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:
"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in an even number, you're in, and if it... See more
Pirate Wiresx.com
PORTER v. BOWEN, Opinion of the Court
The case addresses the First Amendment rights related to vote-swapping websites, determining that California's threat of prosecution was unconstitutional, while the official was granted qualified immunity for lack of clearly established law.
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