My undergrad degree was Econ, and I seriously considered pursuing an academic career in the field. I was initially attracted to the whole law and economics movement, and I still think it is useful analytically.
As applied, what I see happen too often is that concrete dollar amounts are exalted over other valuable things (air that doesn’t kill you) that are more difficult to quantify.
Inscription on President Orange Crap’s tombstone: “I loved causing pain to others even more than being a billionaire. Thank you, Jesus!”
Sometimes it cheers me up to compose these.
Never mind communal valuable things. Besides, valuable things don’t have standing.
I understand, but I have little sympathy. They occupy an important position that’s really a pretty cushy gig. They have to take the bad with the good. If our Constitution is a fiction, let’s expose it as such so we can fix it. If not, enforce the damn thing!
Has TCF ever upheld the oath he has twice sworn “…to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution?” All answers point to no.
It’s systemic.
That jibes with other recent research, including from Northwestern Mutual, a financial services firm, that found only one-third of millionaires consider themselves wealthy.
YOU have my sympathies.
To be fair, most of the SCOTUS aren’t doing a bang up job of that either.
If assets are included, I’m a multi millionaire. If not, then I’m just getting by but still having a barrel of laughs.
In a famous dissent involving the Sierra Club, Bill Douglas would have given standing to trees. I’m not sure he was wrong, though perhaps a bit ahead of his time.
Why wasn’t SCOTUS reform at the top of the list for Biden, or during Harris’ campaign? Why is it not still one of our main calling cards?
Hell, in purple WI it has been instrumental in winning most of the recent statewide elections and likely gave boosts to the Dem candidates for other offices.
Latte drinking grandma. Lol
Two people stood in the way of court reform in the Senate–Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema
I can’t wait for Putin’s Cock-holster to be laid to rest(room). He’s going to finally become popular … as a stop on Tio Wally’s *Shit On Their Graves Tours.*™
I can’t believe that Alex Jones is still a thing. I would have thought by now he was living in cardboard shack underneath some railroad bridge by now. Same as it ever was.
I have millions in Chips Ahoy cookies.
