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** MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024
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Shielding State Secrets makes the Supreme Court the guardian of Leviathan Democracy. A State Secrets claim is the equivalent of a political command to a judge to shut down a case. The State Secrets doctrine presumes that "government knows best, and no one else is entitled to know." Not only are the feds above the law; they don't have to explain why they are above the law. Eventually, instead of a good excuse for breaking the law, all that is necessary is to claim that an excuse exists — even if the excuse is secret.
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 22, 2024
An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration ([link removed])
I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, this new book is the best book on the issue of immigration I have ever read. It is entitled The Case for Open Borders. The author is John Washington, who has written ...
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