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The “American Are Not Deadbeats Act”: Republicans Have Given Democrats a Gilded Political Path to Killing the Debt Ceiling

23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am by Neil H. Buchanan

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) speaks, he sometimes tells the truth. [read post]

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Trump's Flailing Coup Attempts and the Fire Hose of Constitutional Disasters

20 Sep 2021, 10:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

That Sense of Relief from California’s Recall Comes Five Years Too Late

16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Why Do We Continue to Use Loaded Words Even When We Know that They Have No Meaning?

16 Sep 2021, 5:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan

Is the United States still, as I recently put it, a “Dead Democracy Walking”? [read post]

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Understanding Government Spending and All That

14 Sep 2021, 1:46 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Anti-Theocracy and the Rule of Law

10 Sep 2021, 12:26 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

What Would the Church-State Divide Look Like If I Were God? (Irony Alert)

8 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

My recent columns here on Verdict and on Dorf on Law paint an unmistakable picture of doom and gloom. [read post]

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Dear Young People: You WANT Congress to Kick the Can Down the Road on Social Security

6 Sep 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

There are not many good things to say about the blizzard of terrible things that has become a depressingly permanent part of our lives. [read post]

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The Changed Abortion Landscape and the Role of States in the New Republican Autocratic Order

3 Sep 2021, 11:40 am by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

A Strange Type of Federalism Awaits Us in Republicans’ Upcoming One-Party Autocracy

1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

When Republicans have retaken both houses of Congress and have installed either Donald Trump or his anointed successor in the White House in January 2025, what will they do next? [read post]

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New Zealand's Tragedy of Competence and Cohesion in the Coronavirus Pandemic

31 Aug 2021, 10:06 am by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Statehood for D.C. Could Not Be Reversed

30 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

This past weekend, a march for voting rights in Washington was also a march for voting rights in Washington. [read post]

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Dead Democracy Walking

29 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

I have been predicting for the last several years that the United States is on the precipice of ending its experiment in representative democracy, through which we have enjoyed the benefits of living under the rule of law. [read post]

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Biden, Afghanistan, and Idealism-as-Pragmatism

27 Aug 2021, 9:55 am by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Predictions of the Death of Democracy, Ten Years Ago (a Verdict classic)

20 Aug 2021, 11:55 am by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Afghanistan Briefly Returns to the Public Consciousness, and No One Knows Anything

17 Aug 2021, 12:38 pm by Neil H. Buchanan

by Neil H. [read post]