Thanks to the Twitter habit of Donald Trump and those on his White House team, the public has been treated to a number of disturbing exchanges in which they spew accusations, threats, and other attacks against one another, as well as on members of the other two branches of government. [read post]

Indeed, enabling government officials to take actions when unwilling to state the actual reasons for the action defeats a key constraint upon government officials’ pursuit of parochial interests, whether their own or those of others, in derogation of the public interest.[5]  See generally, Publicity, §1.1, STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (Jan. 12, 2005, revised Nov. 8, 2021)(entry prepared by Axel Gosseries and Tom Parr).[6] Nevertheless, recognition of the government… [read post]