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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof@evanbernick.bsky.social |
Some Robert Cover to consider in light of some recent decisions
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof
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Cover’s focus was criminal law but the point generalizes. Law expresses, encodes, and distributes state power, and state power includes (though is not limited to) violence. The *intended* effect of the immunity decision is to redistribute control over violence—away from Congress, to the President.
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