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Milan Markovic
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Very sad to see so much #whataboutism from Democrats about Biden's condition.
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Law professor interested in legal ethics, access to justice, and the future of law.
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Milan Markovic
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Very sad to see so much #whataboutism from Democrats about Biden's condition.
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Milan Markovic
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I'm not keen to find out what a Trump presidency looks like now that he doesn't have to worry about the criminal code. Everyone should be pressuring Biden to step down.
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Milan Markovic
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Crazy time. Dean Edley and others defended him on academic freedom grounds. The Dean's argument was effectively that nothing short of criminal conviction would justify terminating him. Presumably, disbarment for his government-sponsored torture work would have been insufficient.
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Milan Markovic
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I'm not the first to observe the parallels between Biden and RBG, but it's unquestionably the case that knowing when to step down is a key part of one's legacy.
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Milan Markovic
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I think the consensus is that Biden bombed, and Trump did himself no favors either. Early data seems to show that third-party candidates benefited the most.
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Milan Markovic
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This is a bit like making all your post-game free throws after bricking them all in the actual game.
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Milan Markovic
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The Biden campaign's post-debate spin is that he isn't as sharp or articulate as he used to be, but the other guy is a liar. Points for doubling down on the existing narrative, I guess.
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Milan Markovic
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I missed about 5 minutes of the debate in total. Biden was marginally better in the second half of it but was generally ineffectual throughout. Bad debates happen, but he could not meet the very low expectations that voters set for him.
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Milan Markovic
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Biden just confirmed every doubt that voters have about him. Harris's approval numbers are a bit lower than his currently, but she isn't as known a quantity, so there is room to improve. Pair her with Whitmer, and you might have something. At the very least, she'll counter Trump's lies.
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Milan Markovic
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Biden just confirmed every doubt that voters have about him. Harris's approval numbers are a bit lower than his currently, but she isn't as known a quantity, so there is room to improve. Pair her with Whitmer, and you might have something. At the very least, she'll counter Trump's lies.
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Milan Markovic
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Landry is a walking parody of a southern governor. No writer could get away with inventing such a cliche character.
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Milan Markovic
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Trying to avoid jokes about a priest clerking for Kavanaugh on the other place.
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Milan Markovic
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Just amazing political malpractice by the Biden campaign to not focus on Trump's felony convictions or defend DA Bragg, so that the media can return to more important issues such as the President's advanced age and relationship with his son.
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Milan Markovic
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Democrats are running on "it's the economy, stupid" in a world where views of the economy are determined mostly by political identity.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Reminder that the small pool of conservatives at top law schools means there's intense selection to find conservative judges scholar.harvard.edu/files/msen/f...
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George Conway
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It’s long past time
for there to be a comprehensive criminal investigation, and congressional investigation, of Justice Thomas and his finances and his taxes. What he has taken, and what he has failed to disclose, is beyond belief, and has been so for quite some time. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...
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Milan Markovic
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Odd how he started musing about stepping down in 2000, and then the money started rolling in. 🤔
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David Noll
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Some people seem to be shocked that the Columbia Law Review website is still "under maintenance," but please remember, this is the first time that a scholar has attempted to publish a contested historical claim in a law review.
columbialawreview.org
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Shocking News: OpenAI's GPT-4 didn't do all that well on the bar exam after all.
www.livescience.com/technology/a...
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ryan cooper
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like the fattest, slowest political softball imaginable, and yet Democrats are anxiously pondering whether to bunt or let it go by abcnews.go.com/Politics/plu...
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Adam Serwer
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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Milan Markovic
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www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/o...
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Milan Markovic
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The Trump NY case revealed something about the modern-day legal academy. The case was largely ignored or derided, while profs obsessed over what the "originalist" Supreme Court would do with disqualification and immunity. Most of us are probably more familiar with Griffin's case than state law.
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Osita Nwanevu
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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.
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Milan Markovic
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He lost me months ago because he kept tacking on complaints. I think that FECA preemption was his original hobby horse, and now we are on unanimity on the uncharged offenses, and God knows what else.
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Milan Markovic
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Pecker was a very effective witness for the prosecution. The only real hope for an acquittal here was providing some plausible explanation for the payments that had nothing to do with the election. As for Jan. 6th, the sprawling nature of the conspiracy is a challenge (plus the immunity issue).
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Milan Markovic
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I think that it is a stronger case than the Jan. 6 cases. Facts weren't really in dispute, and there were no immunities for the DA to worry about. The Florida case would have been a slam dunk if Smith filed in DC. Some folks just hate the NY case because it seems like an end-run around FECA.
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Milan Markovic
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The big news here in terms of abortion rights is that conservative groups are affirmatively arguing that women who seek abortion care are criminals. This isn't the law in Texas currently and is contrary to much of these groups' rhetoric pre-Dobbs.
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Milan Markovic
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Between the latest massacre, the ICJ's order, and the ICC arrest warrant, what exactly is the case for sticking by Netanyahu at this juncture?
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Milan Markovic
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The State Department has been a low-key disaster under Biden. When it's not undercutting him publicly, it just sticks to worn-out talking points.
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Milan Markovic
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The ICC arrest warrants are unambiguously good news if you believe that Netanyahu is a major obstacle to peace. Unfortunately, the Biden administration believes that it can still work with him, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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Milan Markovic
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It's a sad situation.
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Milan Markovic
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Ethics scholar here. Let's just say that Gillers and Calebrasi have something in common at this juncture, and it's not their politics.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS.
But now it is just straight to the cops.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
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Milan Markovic
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đź‘€
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Milan Markovic
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Anyone else reminded of the beginning of Death of Stalin, with all of these politicos jostling to be near Trump for his NY trial?
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Ansel Halliburton
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Justice Thomas is not mad. Please don’t put in the newspaper that he got mad.
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Milan Markovic
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There is some chance that two of President Biden's most consequential and principled actions - ending the Afghan war and opposing the Rafah campaign - will cost him the election. The American electorate has been conditioned to accept magical thinking about foreign policy.
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Mark Lemley
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A list of judges (not surprisingly Trump appointees) who have just declared themselves completely unfit for the judicial role by announcing that they will refuse to interview ANYONE from Columbia because they don't like the fact that students are protesting there
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Milan Markovic
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I wrote about the prosecutors involved in family separation here: scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vo.... Unfortunately, this dark episode in recent US history has been memory-holed although a second a Trump admin would surely bring it back.
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Milan Markovic
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Somehow, the judges' attention-seeking letter works in abortion.
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Brian C. Keegan
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Every public opinion poll shows “culture war politics on Ivy League campuses” as Americans’ number one issue, which is why the NYTimes reports and opines on it Every. Single. Day.
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Milan Markovic
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I have my misgivings about international criminal tribunals, but there is no endgame to the current Israel/Palestine conflict without indictments of key leaders. The Biden administration should be rooting for arrest warrants.
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Timothy Burke
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The Columbia students who delivered such vital coverage of tonight's events on WKCR:
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Milan Markovic
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Mike and I were roommates at Columbia. Co-sign.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Again, there were countless ways for the administration to calm things down but they chose to escalate it every step of the way. And now they’ve bringing cops in riot gear to clear out their own students. Make no mistake: If someone gets hurt, it is absolutely entirely on them.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Consider this alongside the decision in Citizens United, and you can derive a number of lessons about the nature of power.
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Milan Markovic
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Former law deans turned University admins aren't exactly covering themselves in glory right now. See also Guzman at USC.
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Milan Markovic
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Barnard's President is a former law school dean.
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Assistant to the Professor
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I yearn for a day when American police are controlled by civilians.
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