Blake Reid (Bleak/Dire)🥫🏁 on Nostr: It is important for lawyers, academics, journalists, and other commentators to ...
It is important for lawyers, academics, journalists, and other commentators to understand that these cases do not represent some faithful, learned, good-faith, balls-and-strikes interpretation of primary legal materials applied to the facts at hand. They are an exercise of political power. And they need to be understood as such. 2/
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