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>Lawyers don't use PACER. They'll have a LexisNexis or Westlaw terminal. That gets them all of the rulings and so forth, but annotated. I don't know about that; I've used PACER a f…

While I generally agree with your foundation of the political switch, I just want to point out that elections in the 1970's through 1990's were still very regional. Southern candid…

I'm not saying current political conservatives are the cause, Bork was hugely influential beyond traditional conservative circles, particularly in antitrust law. If you read Bork's…

Basically it should be illegal per se but since the 70's the Court has really limited how they apply that and so courts generally prefer to do a competitive analysis/quick look fir…

The cotton gin was not invented in 1793, but the claim wasn't a narrative hustle. The short staple cotton gin was invented in 1793.

Well, in the United States it doesn't make the news.

>Unpopular opinion here... If you tread carefully you'll most likely not succeed. I am not American and I know you guys like to sue eachother for putting cats in microwaves and stu…

>I'm aware that Khalil's case involves the McCarthyesque Immigration and Nationality Act because he's a lawful permanent resident where non-citizens are being processed under thing…

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Technically at the time of the arrest he was accused of criminal conduct, but not charged with criminal conduct. I believe he is still within the legally required timeline to be ch…

Ownership is classically a combination of a bundle of rights. You have most of those rights, but you do not have all of them.

>All famines are caused by natural disasters. The great leap forward would like a word with you.

He stole those too

Using state violence to protect property is literally one of the main reasons for having a state at all.

So I won't go into too much detail given the nature of the forum, but beyond the complete change in tone that Jackson brought to the presidency, something that Trump is also routin…

Interestingly that is the exact opposite of the Chesterton's fence concept - it illustrates that it is much better to grasp the system as it exists before attempting to change it, …

I tend to disagree, in terms of coordinated upheaval we saw something similar in Andrew Jackson's presidency. Nothing new under the sun, I'm afraid.

How did I severely exaggerate anything? I am not OP

Sure, that makes sense. If the risk of something is 1 in 10, 10 people do it, you have 9 examples of people who have no problems and 1 example of someone with an issue. I was think…

You have a bunch of anecdotes where the only successful people from the same school and friend group are the ones that regularly smoked and still smoke weed? They have the best mem…

I don't think I've ever worked a white collar job where a couple of low performance people equaled the output of a single high performing employee.

Which is honestly weird. It's Little Red Book, not Red Note, in reference to Mao's little red book.

>Likewise with vaccines, careful study with placebos could demonstrate that the vaccine under study didn't prevent transmissibility of the infectious virus any better than the plac…

>It doesn’t cause her to be any less attentive to her writing; it just makes it possible to write. I was not really referring to accommodations under the ADA. For people that do no…

The article mentions 'responsible' grammarly usage, which I think is an oxymoron in an undergraduate or high school setting. Undergrad and high school is where you learn to write c…