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2 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For now, the debate over taxes has subsided in this country. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In the American political conversation, there is never a shortage of uninformed nonsense about budget deficits and the national debt. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Is support for Donald Trump a function of economic anxiety or bigotry? [read post]
8 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The first column on Justia’s Verdict was published on June 27, 2011. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
That Kennedy would deem it acceptable to be replaced by someone whom Trump will select based on the recommendations of the extremists who have taken over the party (and who gave the world a second Clarence Thomas in the person of Neil Gorsuch) is absolutely astonishing. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”For those intrepid readers who want to get into the weeds of MMT, New York Times economics reporter Neil Irwin has offered a very fair primer (even though he is not a believer). [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
These are people who, unlike the vast majority of voters, believe to their core that stroke-the-rich tax cuts are always a dandy idea, and they do not object at all to having the courts packed with judges who are not just conservative but radical reactionaries in the mold of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.The but-taxes and but-judges mantras, after all, are merely part of an intramural argument among conservatives who have split over the question of whether selling out one’s… [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Even the most committed textualist should find that laughable.To be fair, Klein frames that discussion as a matter of asking what three arch-conservative Supreme Court justices—John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—might be convinced to endorse, and he notes later in the essay that this Supreme Court has shown us that once-nutty arguments are no longer off the table.Even so, when Klein turns his attention to the second argument, this is his transition sentence:… [read post]
2 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Is there an affordable housing problem in major American cities? [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Just as Joseph Stalin famously sneered at the supposed power of the Roman Catholic Church, asking “[h]ow many divisions” the Pope commanded, Trump could ask of Republicans on Capitol Hill (and in the courts), “You might have impeached me, but I’m not leaving. [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Even that, however, would not help Republicans.Let us imagine that the White House follows the Buchanan-Dorf plan and tells the Treasury to keep calm and carry on. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
“A government of laws is ultimately a government of men and women who honor and protect those laws. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After the Republican presidential candidates held one of their joint press conferences (also known, quite inaccurately, as debates) on the cable network CNBC in October, the candidates and their handlers engaged in a gratuitous round of press bashing by complaining vociferously about the questions that they were asked. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In my writing here on Verdict and elsewhere over the last few years, I have offered assessments of the American political system that are decidedly pessimistic. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
[Note to readers: In my January 20 Verdict column, I related information from an American émigré in Canada who described the process of becoming a Canadian citizen as “easy. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Having witnessed decades of shocking cynicism on the part of Republicans, I sometimes think that I can no longer be shocked when they become even more cynical. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If Democrats spend the next year saying, “Professor Buchanan is right that it’s almost certainly already too late, but vote for us anyway,” that is hardly a winning strategy. [read post]