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Cleaning Up After Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Barbara1247 Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 3:41 PM

This country is now so polarized that no matter which party is in power, 50% of the people are going to be very unhappy. It really doesn'ts seem like a bad idea to split the country into liberal and conservative states. As a libertarian, I wouldn't be completely happy living in either, but it seems preferable to the constant acrimony that presently exists.

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Cleaning Up After Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Of all the sloppy and confused decisions rendered by the Supreme Court in recent years, few compare with CLS v. Martinez (2010). The decision was more than just poorly reasoned. It was also based upon willful blindness toward factual misrepresentations by the defendants in the case. Justice Ginsburg authored an opinion she knew she could arrive at only by pretending to believe facts she knew were not true.

Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, offers a good critique of the decision in his new book, Unlearning Liberty. I write about it today...

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