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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Making Good Sense: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law

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Here is the abstract for my latest article forthcoming in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy. In the article, I try to take a m...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Neil Gorsuch? Originalism and the Ten Commandments

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Current Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch claims that judges should “apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and lookin...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Pat McCrory Should Think Twice Before Trying To Pack The North Carolina Supreme Court

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In this month’s North Carolina Supreme Court elections, Democrat Michael Morgan soundly defeated Republican Robert Edmunds thereby shi...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Fourth Circuit Strikes Down Discriminatory Provisions of Gov. Pat McCrory's North Carolina Voter Suppression Law

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down provisions of Gov. Pat McCrory’s “omnibus” election law requiring photo identific...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Razing Babel: Two Sonnets For Too Xenophobic Times

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In these Xenophobic times, we should recognize that Razing Babel was a blessing not a curse.    The punishment of imprisonment within ...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Sewing & Sowing Words

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  We’re artisans who sew and sow words.   We sew and sow words for, among other things, organizing, molding, and embellishing the w...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Beyond Rawls’ Fiction: The Veil of Ignorance Is Real

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Archive of Blog Originally Posted 3/2/2016 in The Huffinton Post

Justice Scalia, Queen Anne, and the Pragmatics of Interpretation

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Archive of Blog Originally Posted 2/18/2016 in The Huffinton Post

Biting the Hand That Feeds: Entitlements and the Fundamental Attribution Error

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Archive of Blog Originally Posted 5/12/14 in The Huffinton Post

Obamacare and the Self-Made Man

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Archive of blog originally posted 3/26/2014 in The Huffington Post A friend left me a note last night: “My life has been crazy—But with...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

My Thoughts in the Washington Post on HB 2

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“This is really a devious bill that harms workers under the guise of regulating bathrooms,” said Harold Lloyd, a professor at Wake Forest ...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

McCrory’s House Bill 2: A Brief Outline of Its Five “Parts”

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When non-lawyers hear Pat McCrory’s claim that North Carolina’s House Bill 2 is just common sense while at the same time they hear the ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

McCrory's Munchausen by Proxy

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Pat McCrory has been dissembling on his Facebook page tonight:
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Cicero and Classical Rhetoric: A Good Man Is Still Fluent Dead

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Much needless suffering (including physical carnage) flows from our inability to persuade with words rather than force.  Much of that ver...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Cincinnatus: The Other Political Archetype

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As we watch today's political nastiness, we should remember there is a better political archetype.  There is the Cincinnatus figure w...
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