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Robert Black
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!

This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law

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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!
Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional! As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...
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The problem with the Taliban, of course, isn't that they're Muslim

Came here to say this lol

No, we know why, it's because Epstein was hiring girls away from Mar-a-Lago

No (see alt text) m.xkcd.com/2530/
xkcd: Clinical Trials
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Those guys you see only dropped him because the heat was on, which was a terrible betrayal

Trump on the other hand dumped him before it became cool, which was a brave and noble stand

The prime example in the piece is John Ely's writings on judicial review and unenumerated rights

That's, uhhhh, very silly imo

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But as to Orin’s complaint about left legal scholarship & the academy, imo where brilliant-thinking-gone-wrong matters practically, the legal right is unsurpassed. Brilliant theories of the constitution from the right have transformed our governmental structure into something quite monarchical 🤯 6/x

Gotcha gotcha. Just making sure.

Sorry, I would have hoped that would be clear from context. If it didn't, I apologize

Oh lol, I wasn't asking *you* to show me an example of equally bad, equally prominent liberal scholarship lol

I was effectively asking/daring Orin to

That's a good one tbh (if it's reciprocated)

Oh I know, elsewhere in the thread I've talked about needing solutions on the supply side and this is what I'm talking about, quite specifically

(What can't be wished away is the scarcity of economic resources writ large)

Show me one (1) example of liberal scholarship that's as bad as Wurman on birthright and gets a tenth the attention lol

Many roads lead to this point

Yes, and therefore: may Joe Lieberman be damned

I mean, he's not wrong

Yes, I also worry about this, particularly given the way economic sentiment has gone off the fucking rails in the last few years

Like 20% of the electorate is "rurals," yeah?

Could believe that's out of date and the number is smaller now

It's a hard fight!

Yeah

If you improve the supply of doctors then the price of doctors should go down

(Is why the AMA is dead set against it)

It's pretty far from the top of the agenda, but I can well believe that Medicare is in pretty dire need of reform

I don't even know how, exactly!

Right, you need to yeet people away from a local optimum

This is why I say the solutions are ultimately on the supply side

To the extent that the AMA is corruptly capturing the public, democratic authorities, yes that's first order bad and must be crushed lol

Like there's a whole category of thing that's basically "trying to defraud the public by inventing medical needs"

Oh yeah, that shit we need to be willing to say "no" to

You don't ACTUALLY have the right to enjoy a high material living standard while also not doing anything to contribute a comparable amount to the collective production

Also like

You can keep living in your podunk towns! That's totally free and legal.

Your material standard of living will be lower. But that's a choice you could decide to make, if you wanted, if you cared that much

Also like, if they're doing good (by ensuring a high standard of care), then you can make the democratic decision to let them keep doing it

Not because they have an inherent right to do it, but because it pleaseth the community to let them