i think you're just being disagreeable in exactly the way that you seem to relish and i'm glad that's fun for you.

Instead, Democrats--i.e., the anointed opposition!--denied the Constitutional crisis, and spent the country's psychic energy on technocratic responses to 1. Covid; 2. economic recovery; and 3. Afghanistan. All of which they are now seen as having failed on, despite, in point of fact, succeeding.

*Of course* this would infringe on their rights to free speech, etc. As they were for Lincoln, questions of the normal constitutional order by necessity needed to have been answered secondarily to questions of the preservation of the Union and government of, by, and for the People.

can rule like a king if two of them had been arrested in February 2021?

Similarly, any explicit or implicit paramilitary group might've been met with armed agents of the state (along with counter-protesters) and an explicit, public campaign against their treason.

...of the 2020 insurrection was in giving Democrats an unambiguous casus belli to do *all* that was necessary. Meaning, a boundary-pushing legal response to the conservative legal establishment's complicity in and outright advocacy for Trumpism. Do we think SCOTUS decides that...the President...

*Of course* the reflexes of our legal establishment would be inadequate to respond a second time to Trump in 2020. They nearly failed after 2016 and had spent the interim 4 years eroding.

Trumpism as a phenomenon required an overwhelming and unprecedented reaction. And the real 'meaning'...

We forget that Lincoln's challenges over the constitutionality of various forms of Union response to secession were *both* live legal questions in the moment, *as well as* responses to what were then an unprecedented resistance and delegitimization of Lincoln's and the Union's rule.

Just take your medicine

Any student willing to prompt AI for an essay response *and then* fake their way through the writing process (writing, deleting, waiting, etc.) is cheating at a level we're all a lot more familiar with. Accordingly, though, this falls more cleanly into honor code territory.

Any student willing to prompt AI for an essay response *and then* fake their way through the writing process (writing, deleting, waiting, etc.) is cheating at a level we're all a lot more familiar with. Accordingly, though, this falls more cleanly into honor code territory.

There is in fact a fool-proof way to stop students submitting papers written with AI: require that all written material be *composed* in GoogleDocs, etc. GoogleDocs tracks changes *to the second*--which is to say, it tracks the writing *process* itself. AI simply cannot mimic this.

I mean, it can't be that as long as Congress doesn't declare war, there are no war crimes. That's just a reductio argument against that specific US jurisprudential definition of "war" and therefore "war crime".