I'm in Liberal Currents!
Cross-posting here: I have a piece today in Liberal Currents about why judicial review is essential for our democracy and that means we have to attack and dethrone (and then rebuild) the Supreme Court!
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Liberalism in Five Colors
A week ago I wrote the following on Bluesky: I agree with this, BUT ALSO, I do sort of think we need a vision of a green-mana-aligned left-liberalism, that the current orientation is pretty anti-green in a way that bothers me — Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) 2024-12-08T23:45:11.264Z
Color Philosophy, A Primer
This post is going to be a little weird, particularly if you're here for the legal theory. This is going to be different from my last primer, about the six modalities of constitutional argument. But I got involved in a discussion about this stuff on Bluesky over the
A Modest Proposal Concerning Canada
So the latest insanity is apparently Trump talking – how seriously is anybody's guess – about conquering and/or annexing Canada. He is said to have joked(?) with Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau that Canada should become America's 51st state. I have a better idea. In the couple of
Trump is a Usurper
His presidency will be unlawful from top to bottom. He is ineligible to the office of president, or for that matter any other public office state or federal, under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids those who (1) held public office and took an oath to support the