Maggie's Farm

Rachman at FT looks at world government, in the sense that PeeWee Herman looks at porn. One gets the sense that "looking" doesn't properly describe what he's actually doing.

And yes, Leonard Leo is impressive, he's a man who deserves, but will probably never get, a Presidential Freedom Medal.

It always amazes me how the left can fume about the Fed Soc being some rightist conspiracy. As an attorney I like the law to be a mechanism that operates in predictable patterns because this allows me to advise clients and keep them out of trouble; it also allows for democratic accountability. If the courts follow the law, then the people, if they dislike the law in sufficient numbers, can get it changed. When the courts do not respect the constitutional and legislative text, they usurp the people's ability to self-govern, and they also make it impossible to predict (and advise a client on) how a court will rule. The alternative to textualism is rule by ipse dixit, which is a great judicial philosophy as long as (and only as long as) the judge is ruling in your favor.

That acknowledgment of this fact and our legal conservative enslavement to the black letter text is somehow portrayed as a radical right wing project, grates on me severely. The alternative to textualism is simple intellectual prostitution.