I’m with Gail Heriot: Nothing makes me want to break this sstate up than its supreme court telling me I’m not allowed vote to do so.
Category Archives: Law
Space Is Not A Global Commons
A Twitter thread from the U.S. representative to COPUOS.
A thread on why outer space is not a global commons! #spacelaw #globalcommons #spacepolicy
1) "Global commons" is an ill-defined term. Different people mean different things: some mean "area beyond territorial jurisdiction", others something political, regarding rights.
— Gabriel Swiney (@Monkeybane_DC) July 16, 2018
The American Aristocracy
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on the impunity of the “elite.”
Like Trump? Keep this up, because it’s how you get more Trump.
Strzok’s Smirk
Yes, he’s lying, and yes, he’s filth. And so are the people not just defending him, but praising him.
[Update a few minutes later]
Liz Sheld has more.
[Saturday noon update]
Denying the obvious doesn’t make it go away. What was breathtaking about his performance was not that he claimed that the bias didn’t affect his behavior; it was his insane claim that the bias didn’t even exist.
[Sunday-morning update]
More from Melissa Mackenzie:
The creepiest witness to ever grace a Congressional hearing, minced in his seat and evaded questions for hours on end Thursday. His name? Peter Strzok (pronounced “Struck” for the Democrats on the committee who kept mispronouncing it). The general impression from his testimony? What a complete weirdo. It is astonishing that someone so strange, supercilious and seemingly evil reached so high a position in law enforcement.
As I tweeted a few weeks ago, I’d have a lot more confidence in Mueller if the people telling me about his probity and character weren’t the same people who told me that about Comey. I have to wonder how many other Strzoks, Pages, Ohrs, McCabes et al are at the agency. I think it needs a thorough housecleaning.
[Bumped]
Unmasking Antifa
Three reasons it’s a bad idea.
I’m not sure he’s entirely serious.
[Update a while later]
Related: Why Leftists become thugs:
What turns people into wicked punks while they no doubt continue to believe themselves to be decent and good? Bad ideas, that’s what, ideas that give people license to answer words and policies with terror. What’s the bad idea on the left? Control. The notion that the left’s cause is so righteous it needs to pay no mind to liberty but simply deserves to win by any means necessary. Let five judges on the Supreme Court make law and damn the “outdated” Constitution. Give unelected bureaucracies like the EPA the power to regulate people’s lives without appeal or oversight. Give ignoble gnomes like Peter Strzok the wherewithal to criminalize the political opposition. And of course, bring on the socialism: a philosophy that declares a person’s work, his time, his life, his property belong not to him but to the state. Control.
Yup.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sarah Hoyt: The Left misunderstands the Constitution. Again.
[Late-afternoon update]
The power-hungry Left loses its cool. Though “power-hungry Left” is redundant.
[Late evening update]
Glenn has a good point on how Leftists become thugs. Maybe the causation goes the other way.
Brett Kavanaugh
Trump plays it safe.
That seems a little out of character, but he is keeping a campaign promise. We could have gotten worse, and were guaranteed to, if Hillary had won.
U.S. Space Guard
After all these years of advocating for it, I’m happy with how much traction the concept is finally getting.
How To Defeat Facial Recognition
Ummm…no thanks.
The FBI
They were trained that they could bend or suspend the law.
This was for terror suspects, but once you believe you can suspend the law, it makes it easy to explain why they let Hillary and her minions off.
Who Should The Nominee Be?
A roundup from legal bloggers, with three votes for Don Willett, including one from Instapundit.
[Tuesday-afternoon update]
An analysis of Amy Coney Barrett’s legal philosophy.
Based on this, I’d prefer Willett, but it looks like Trump is fascinated by the idea of nominating an actual conservative (and relatively young, for longevity, and attractive) woman. And the nomination would make the Left’s collective head explode, as well as making it more difficult for Murkowski and Collins to vote against.
[Bumped]