Wanderthread

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Not sure what to make of this, except that I’m fascinated.

And that is not a young Joe Biden.

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Just this once, I’m going to indulge @Wanderfound 's paranoia.

The proposal, co-authored by Shams Hirji, a recent graduate of Northwestern’s law school, is dressed up with data and charts about judicial caseloads, but its stated premise is straightforward: to create “a sufficient number of new judges that would help change the balance of power . . . back to a conservative majority” and would clean up the “damage done to the rule of law” by Obama’s appointees. How many new judges? Thirty to fifty per cent more than we have today, Calabresi suggests, and he would like them right away, please—before Democrats have a chance, in 2018, to take back the Senate. As the former Clinton and Obama adviser Ron Klain has pointed out, in the Washington Post, this would, “almost overnight,” make the number of Trump-selected judges on the federal bench nearly equal to the number appointed by the last nine Presidents combined.

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For proper paranoia, consider how easy it would be to manufacture a natural-appearing death for Ginsberg and Breyer.

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“Three Justices over eighty”

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Interesting for everyone, but particularly relevant to the anarchists:

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Doug Jones attempting to weaponise Confederate bigotry:

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https://twitter.com/kiranopal/status/938113507144462337

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Interesting history:

https://twitter.com/meaganmday/status/938076860902031360

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-shark-and-the-hound-day

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Interesting…

Could be positive, but has some nasty failure possibilities.

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