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As US Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton famously argued in his book, "51 Imperfect Solutions," it's vital not to overlook the path to justice through these state high courts . . . but it's also vital to recall how "imperfect" they invariably are. https://t.co/36ztgAMFlk

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The title of David Pepper’s book, “Laboratories of Autocracy,” offers a grim but deadly serious spin on Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’s description of America’s state legislatures as  “laboratories of democracy.”  The people must now reclaim power! https://t.co/YWDze4SehQ

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WARNING: This op-ed by the usually smart @maryrziegler is extremely misleading in claiming that “historically, it was fair to call the Supreme Court the most democratic branch of the government, as legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen has done.” NOT TRUE AT ALL. https://t.co/z9pY1LwI9A

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Jonathan Karl's new book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," reports that former COS Kelly said the Jan. 6 riot was so serious & the then-president's handling of the crisis so indefensible that the cabinet would've been justified in trying to remove Trump from office.

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“In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith had to be tortured into declaring that 2+2=5. In the case of today’s Republicans, no torture has been necessary.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/17/republicans-plotting-destroy-democracy

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This vibration theory of consciousness is intriguing but seems vulnerable to Thomas Nagel’s dazzling account in “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”  https://t.co/0N3SEtx54d

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Part II-C of this 2-1 opinion, invoking John Locke and the Gorsuch dissent in Gundy, would radically transform, and ultimately deconstruct, the Federal Government. If SCOTUS grants cert and AFFIRMS on nondelegation grounds not used since 1935, BAM 💥!!!!! https://t.co/1paBcPX1ar

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“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep,” Isaiah Berlin once said. “This point is too often ignored. Government — or large centralized authority — is one threat to liberty but not the only one.” Plutocratic control of speech is another. https://t.co/2zDT8oLy4n

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Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson! You were born Dec. 10, 1830. You died May 15, 1886, too young. Among your deathless words: “Hope is the thing with feathers.” And “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

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A second-floor hallway in Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland featured a James Dean quote:  “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” https://t.co/gliAyfLMYr