Robert L. Tsai

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Me and my pup

Reading your skeets aloud to Pie

@raskin.house.gov (D-MD) derides the argument that it’s too late to debate whether to go to war: “What a humiliating, self-defeating argument!”

The son of a preacher, Robert Maynard Hutchins became Dean of Yale Law School at 28. A few years later, the Board of Trustees appointed him President of University of Chicago. Hutchins worried that total war would arrest democratic progress.

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True but that’s a descriptive fact not a claim about legality. She makes the latter.

Emphatically!

Yes—I’ve written about manufactured emergencies and why they are becoming more prevalent

Certainly not closely!

I think it’s a clearly erroneous reading of constitutional text mashed together with conservatives’ living constitutional theory and a poor understanding of congressional adaptations since Vietnam

I think it’s a butchering of constitutional text mashed together with the conservatives’ living constitution

Indeed

it is incredible how this worldview identifies clearly enumerated Congressional powers - the power to declare war! - are deemed to be actually shared with the President, while a whole host of unspecified powers are granted to the President, and the President alone.

Nadia Schadlow, Trump’s former Deputy National Security Adviser, hasn’t read the Constitution

James Talarico says it’s time to start flipping tables

War is “a false path to the four freedoms everywhere,” Hutchins warned.

Hutchins criticized FDR’s appropriation of America’s most cherished ideals for war making purposes: “The President cannot literally mean that we are to fight on till the four freedoms ring everywhere,” for it would mean “a program of perpetual war” and a form of “new imperialism.”

In a public speech on the matter, he thundered: “We shall think no more of justice, the moral order, and the supremacy of human rights.… When we remember what a short war did to the four freedoms, we must recognize that they face extermination in the total war to come.”

The son of a preacher, Robert Maynard Hutchins became Dean of Yale Law School at 28. A few years later, the Board of Trustees appointed him President of University of Chicago. Hutchins worried that total war would arrest democratic progress.

Death toll in Gaza > 75,000

Day 11 of US-Israel Not-War Against Iran

Tiny bit of good news. Whether it actually makes a difference to offset philosophical, partisan, and institutional trends against addressing the needs of poor people during mass incarceration will require future study.

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forever strikes ✈️💣

At the moment we all are trapped within an insufficiently represented order. Where we might disagree is how much pain we’re willing to inflict on fellow citizens and residents as well as which party/institution needs to collapse first before realistic conditions for multiparty rule can reemerge.

But realize these are back-end kinds of reform, not the ex ante changes in policy that are more likely to address inequities at every stage of the criminal process.

Tiny bit of good news. Whether it actually makes a difference to offset philosophical, partisan, and institutional trends against addressing the needs of poor people during mass incarceration will require future study.

Trumpism distilled into a single run-on sentence

Talarico would fry him