2/2 "THE COURTS MAY BE RIGHT, OR THEY MAY BE WRONG, AND IF THEY'RE WRONG, THEY'RE WRONG, BUT IT'S NOT JUDICIAL ACTIVISM." —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nominee John Roberts (September 2005)
Institutionalist or Constitutionalist? Case-by-Caseist?
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1/X Emer de Vattel on WAR, in his book, Law of Nations (1758):
"WAR is that state in which we prosecute our right by force. As per the right to security, nature gives men a right to employ force, when it is necessary for their defense & for the preservation of their rights...
2/X This principle is generally acknowledged: reason demonstrates it; & nature herself has engraved it on the heart of man. Some fanatics, in a literal sense of the moderation recommended in the gospel, have adopted a strange fancy of suffering themselves to be massacred...
3/X ... or plundered, rather than oppose force to violence. We need not fear this error make any great progress. Mankind guards against its contagion — happy, if they knew how to keep within the just bounds which nature has set to a right that is granted only through necessity!
1st Wayback Machine archived home page (dated 12/20/1996) for the official website URL (domain name & corresponding address) of the National Governors Association (founded in 1908), NGA.org, is in the name of "State Services Organization."
1/26/1997 archive shows changed to actual "National Governors Association" branding. Although the NGA's website omits NGA's organizing & governing documents, the NGA's "Articles of Organization," some info is provided... NGA.org
1/3 #DOGE: 1 YEAR & 16 DAYS AFTER THIS WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING...
"The Social Security Administration (SSA) changed the way Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are issued. SSA developed this new method—'randomization'—to help protect the integrity of the SSN."
cc: @DOGE @ElonMusk
2/3 "SSN randomization eliminated the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN, referred to as the area number, by no longer allocating the area numbers for assignment to individuals in specific states."
3/3 PS: In the above video, also observe former ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper (now with CNN) in the front row, who, obviously triggered—"in his soul"—eventually exits stage left.
3/3 MCBOS "OUTSIDE COUNSEL" FORMER MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY OFFICE INSIDER
Emily Craiger—Former MCAO Practice Group Leader Civil Services Division—Provided Legal Advice for Elected County Officials, County Departments & Agencies