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Jed Shugerman
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I know many profs are ridiculing this article, but isn’t the question of when and whether to comply with law and ethical norms one of the classic existential questions?
Isn’t that a main thread in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Arendt...
@EricColumbus as usual has the goods. Sorry, you’re right. The MSM’s repeated trope of Hicks-as-Angsty-Existentialist is just too ridiculous. And this article is superficial for plenty of reasons. My bad.
Hicks: "I'm invoking my right to remain silent. And I'm also invoking Heidegger: 'In order to remain silent, Da-sein must have something to say."
(I guess you had to Be There.)
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Jed Shugerman
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The Empress Has No Clothes.
Like, almost literally.
I’m not trying to skirt around the word literally here...
I guess we can tell who wears the pants in this family.
(Neither, apparently... transparently.)
This tweet is clearly better than mine. I feel like I’ve been dressed down.
(Is this now a thread of threads, @McDeereUSA?)
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Jed Shugerman
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Court Packing Catch-22:
1. Dems need at least 52 Senate seats to get 50 votes (Forget Manchin, Tester & whomever flips a red state).
2. The more court-packing talk, the harder it is to win those seats.
3. If you don't campaign on it, it's illegitimate.
Cool it with court packing.
4. Here's an even bigger problem: Want to get Trump re-elected?
Campaign on expanding the Court to 15 seats, even if you think you have a brilliant mechanism for making it fair.
How about winning an election or two before trying to overhaul the courts?
At least FDR did that.
5. If you thought I was subtweeting @PeteButtigieg, well, maybe I was. But any Dem candidate who is campaigning on court packing is pandering to the Dem base and is revealing they aren't yet ready for the big leagues. There is a base turnout strategy for 2020, but this ain't it.
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Jed Shugerman
@jedshug
The crime of bribery is exchanging a "thing of value" for "an official act."
Lying to protect someone under investigation is "a thing of value."
A pardon is "an official act."
Dangling pardons is a bribery conspiracy/attempt.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
The context of this call is crucial.
Dowd floated a pardon to Flynn's lawyer in summer 2017. This voicemail comes later, just a week before Flynn pleaded guilty and entered cooperation agreement Nov 2017.
nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/…
It's important to note that the Mueller Report does not contain this allegation of an explicit reference to a pardon in summer 2017... From Vol. II, p. 121. If Mueller did not include it, is that because he couldn't substantiate it?
h/t @EricColumbus
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