Also, the act should, of course, be expressly retroactive.
I would think they'd want to add a back-up provision that mandates that, if the S Ct were to strike down this act as unconstitutional, all spending on all Court staff, support, heating or cooling the S Ct building - all of it - cease at once. Judicial salaries, and that alone, to continue.
was that his plan .... ?
I think I found a way to understand the key gestures Roberts slopped together ... turns out these gestures about power and accountability, driven by fear, have an emotional heft (even if they lack analytically sound connections to rule-of-law thinking)
this phrase – "they're just slopping together a series of gestures" - powerfully captures the core weakness in weak judicial reasoning (at least in the anglophone tradition)
Having looked at nothing but the Edmund Ruffin page on Wikipedia, I can only agree
He was born in Virginia, as Edmund was. A page at the Thomas Ruffin Papers website refers to them as cousins.
i think the notion that america somehow exists outside of the forces of history and the weight of the past contributes to the dynamism of this society but it is also our tragic and probably fatal flaw (guess who has been revisiting greek tragedy in his down time)
