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Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
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https://www.eveningconstitutional.net

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · Jun 3
I have an announcement!!

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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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7m
And I mean, if Mike Pence has the courage...

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 8m
There's just no way Yuzuru couldn't have waltzed to silver at the Olympics if he had wanted to

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 8m
Men's figure skating, huh

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 34m
(I never dissemble about it though, because I'm just Like That. I don't eat meat because I'm not a fucking murderer. Sorry if that makes you feel bad!)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 35m
Ha, ha ha ha

Ha, ha

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup

This was like all of middle school for me

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 36m
This is part of why I dislike the "low-trust" framing tbh

I don't trust these fuckers either!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h
Ah, sure

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h
You should see a therapist then!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h
Haha sure

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h
Forgive me, I didn't snap a picture of the giant thunderbolt hitting the Empire State Building out my window lol, it was kind of over before I could even try!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah. In a state of good mental health, the only reason you need is that you like being alive and don't want to die

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Ummmmm excuse me, it is November 15th?? Why are we getting massive thunderbolts over Manhattan????

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h
Alysaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4h
I would be pretty annoyed at an academic book with journal-style footnotes on every page lol

(But then, I'm a lawyer. Our journal articles can have pages that are 80% footnote lol)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4h
Citations in books should be endnotes. That's it, just about.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5h
Drug Church actually not a bad idea

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5h
Exactly

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5h
(Replication crisis got me thinking you might have meant, like, heart disease or something haha)

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 5h
I mean you're not wrong!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
"Wait a minute!"

*surveys the battlefield*

"Our tactical position is AWESOME"

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
This is why I keep saying I want to create a Church of Good

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
Haha yes exactly

Some of y'all don't even like the Stormlight Archive

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
But you know, if your goal in life is to gain intra-factional dominance within the Democratic Party then that doesn't help you very much

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
A child could do it! This is politics on easy mode! Congratulations, you got four years of not having to worry about drafting policy, because you can just scream "MY OPPONENT IS A PEDO" at every opportunity and win in a landslide!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
Because he's an actual scientist

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
For god?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah. It's not, like, unbecoming or anything! It's literally how electoral democracy is supposed to work. You avoid having absolute fucking monsters in power by... their opponents running around screaming about how they're monsters!!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
I'm sure this isn't any kind of glaring democratic theory issue

It's probably fine

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
The legislative process is actually a part of the business of constitutional self-limitation!

But, as you say, it don't mean a thing if you have a court that isn't being faithful to its task and its master

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7h
Right. It's quite explicit if you read old political theory stuff about separation of powers that the whole point of the legislative process is to force the People to act through the adoption of general rules, rather than letting their sentiments in particular cases govern