GOP Death Throes Continued & the Political Demise of Paul Ryan (Will Wilkinson, NYT)
"Politics isn’t physics, but a governing Republican philosophy that sees it as a moral imperative to slash the budgets of social programs that benefit mainly older and working-class white people is bound, sooner or later, to drive a party of mainly older and working-class white people off a cliff. The slow-motion disaster now unfolding in Washington results in no small measure from Mr. Ryan’s puzzling success in persuading Republican elites that they could flourish as the party of free-market, anti-redistributive convictions." [link]
Should Law Yield to a Judge’s Personal Beliefs?
A NYT legal affairs reporter says, yes they should, in a warm and fuzzy remembrance of a recently deceased federal appeals court judge who famously did so all the time. So much "for the rule of law", eh?
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