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Daily Archives: February 22nd, 2019

A learned legal opinion

Friday, February 22, 2019

A few thoughts on the legality of Trump’s emergency!declaration. If we had the same quality of courts we had even 20 years ago, there would probably be little question that the declaration would not survive judicial scrutiny. But we live in a time when the court is very possibly a more partisan and ideological institution […]

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What’s in a word?

Friday, February 22, 2019

The word socialism is being bandied about lately. Some of the Democratic presidential candidates are being asked if they’d describe themselves as socialist, and of course, Republicans sling the word around as an all around dismissal of any and all Democratic proposals. It’s a tactic at least as old as the New Deal. Social Security was […]

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