You don’t hate these people enough.

They’re pillaging your future.

I cannot stress enough how I was not and am not a serious political analyst. And yet some Very Serious People still haven't gotten the memo! Ten years of Roberts Court doing its best impression of a Taney Court after eating lead paint later!

2/ It is about rent extraction, social dominance, resources and brologarchic fantasies of techno-libertarian cities. As @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue, this is not a world of national interests but clique interests. In other words, a neo-royalist order.
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I was thinking about a reread of Davies the other day. It’s been a long time but I also loved this book.

This. I think the next Reconstruction will require a profound reassertion of the role of the legislative branch that SCOTUS will resist tooth and nail.

A kind of reverse "Marbury vs Madison." Article I gets to say what the law is because they write it.

I totally signed up for the recipes but I am a half decent (and half cooked) political philosophy nerd so that’s good too.

That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)

And it does in real life sometimes too—at least for a while. People respond to repression. But not really. Not sustainably.

There’s a kind of virtue assigned to this attitude—“oh we must do the hard thing and that hard thing is [execrable or anti-democratic act/speech/affirmation]. But the hard thing is obviously not doing all that because we find it so easy to do a rendition or sell helps to the dictator.

I do but in working in human rights and religion that’s the kind of stuff I have come know. That was terrible.

*Worse! Autocorrect.

To make the argument, ok it’s illegal but what if I told you it will also make your situation work and then receive a skeptical or bemused expression of disbelief is…I mean it gets funny after awhile.

This has been in some broader sense (human rights, state terror, violent police action etc) the basis for a great deal of my professional work as a civil servant. But convincing even Americans of this is ludicrously difficult.

democratic legitimacy is about the consent of the governed and we simply do not need to consent to this court's lawless jurisprudence.

court packing, jurisdiction stripping, congressional oversight, DOJ investigations into corruption ... we have levers to bring the court to heel