Scripting News: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 This post is for idiots like you who click on links to The Bulwark. # John Palfrey on the moment # This is like that moment, five years ago, when we realized that Covid was going to kill a lot of us but it hadn't happened yet. A lot of people weren't yet aware. My friend John Palfrey , who is a legal scholar, has been writing about this moment on LinkedIn and Facebook. Things are flashing by very quickly, so I'm going to publish his latest piece here, below, so it gets a chance to get to the places I'm hooked into. # Lawyer friends and non-lawyer friends: has it become hard to say out loud in public: "we believe in the rule of law in America"? That seems not remotely controversial as a concept. The relative quiet on this topic is what is striking me most at the moment. # It would be a good idea for our Republic to avoid sleepwalking through a Constitutional crisis. Of course there are extremely...