Rick Hills
@RickHills2
teaching in China, interested in federalism, localism https://t.co/jTeRadn5Ey
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=36181 17-11-2016 03:13:04
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Curious to see whether Trump can succeed w/ the federalism strategy where Stephen Douglas failed. He needs political cover w/ both evangelicals and suburban voters in battleground states. Is “States’ rights” too threadbare nowadays to provide that shield? washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Encouraging thought on the limits of populism. “Project 2025” imagines that the GOP can change policy by replacing a few thousand GS-15s with/ Trumpistas. But running the fed gov’t requires much deeper technical competence than that, right Noah Rosenblum ? open.substack.com/pub/tracingwoo…
Now taking 5:1 odds that SCOTUS denies cert tomorrow on 335-7 LLC and 74 Pinehurst LLC, two “physical takings” challenges to NY’s 2019 rent stabilization statute. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas… But I’ll withdraw the offer if David Schleicher Ilya Somin tell me petitioners have a prayer.
Like many others, I am too emotionally wrecked by Hamas’ vicious pogrom to think about Middle Eastern policy or politics. But sometimes calm, decent policy pieces are a balm in dark times. Matthew Yglesias and Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 have provided two such pieces: slowboring.com/p/radicalizati…
Interesting proposal from Sai Prakash and Ian Ayres to add bipartisan legitimacy to the prosecutions of politicians by using “juries” of former prosecutors to screen prosecutorial discretion. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… I’d be interested to know what Damon Linker thinks.