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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.
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[Link] Bitcoin Just Hit an All Time High Price: $67,000
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The price of Bitcoin hit an all time high on Wednesday, one day after the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched. At its height, the cryptocurrency was trading for $67,016.50, several thousand more than its $64,895.22 high in April.
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[Link] In Nearly All Other Democracies, This Is Not Normal
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Pildes has spent his career as a legal scholar analyzing the intersection of politics and law and how that affects our democracy.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is Fascist
Read: 5/8/2021 nymag.com
In 1919, the progressive journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the nascent Soviet Union and declared, “I have seen the future and it works.
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