They were only trying to kill as many Americans as possible to force us to negotiate
We still haven't run out of all the Purple Hearts minted in anticipation of some 1 million American servicemen deaths invading Japan's home islands
And if you think the only moral course for the United States was to come to terms with Japan's brutal military dictatorship, say so
Also never mind apparently that we haven't seen a great power war in 80 years, and still this guy thinks mutually assured destruction doesn't work to deter war
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Wait, is David French demanding that conservatives refrain from using government power to achieve conservative ends?
Must be a day that ends in -day
If this isn't a distillation of @sohrab Ahmari's great coinage - "David Frenchism" I don't know what is.
"Don't write new law to solve a novel problem, instead, rely on older law and hope that courts read a broad statute the way you want them to. And if they don't, oh well!"
Another aspect of David Frenchism:
"This old law that liberals wrote is good, right, and just. But this new law that conservatives would write is un-American. Never mind that they are based on the same principles and constitutional foundation."
I read the Cosby opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, it's pretty persuasive
Bruce Castor publicly announced that he would not prosecute Cosby as a way of forcing him to testify in the civil case, unable to assert any Fifth Amendment rights
Then ten years later, Castor's successor went ahead and prosecuted Cosby, based on incriminating testimony that Cosby had given in the civil case
We really don't want a world where prosecutors can bait-and-switch defendants on their Fifth Amendment rights