{"id":54749,"date":"2024-07-03T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54749"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T23:08:10","slug":"open-thread-july-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/03\/open-thread-july-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 3 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, The Borowitz Report<\/a> addressed the Supreme Court. Andy apparently can’t count, and only two of his proposed replacements are lawyers, but it’s still delicious to think about – and the devil is in the details.<\/p>\n

I expect that everyone remembers [retired conservative] federal judge [J. Michael] Luttig<\/a> from his testimony to the January 6 Select Committee. His delivery was so slow and deliberate that some people thought he was age-impaired, but that was not the reason. The actual reason he spoke that way was because the matter was (and is) so important and he wanted to make sure that not a syllable was missed. Well, he’s in the news again, and this time with thoughts so powerful that no one else has the spine to say them out loud. I hope Jack Smith has the spine to hear them. I suspect that if anyone does, it is he.<\/p>\n

Robert Reich<\/a>‘s point, expressed in the first few paragraphs is something I have known foe so long that I tend to forget that not everyone knows, which allows so many to be misled. Heck, I learned in business school that the very word “bureaucracy” was coined to describe what Reich must now call the “administrative state” because the other has been so tarnished. Federal agencies and the regulations they impose are designed to protect we the people from the most dangerous monster on earth – corporations.<\/p>\n