Josh Blackman
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🔮 Kyle asks:
Well, I don't know how much coverage of the court you read, but you may not be surprised to learn that one light motif is that you are brooding figure.
🔮 Just as there are no doubt those on the bench who have strong ambitions for future office, there are others who are happy to be public servants, but who would be just as happy earning their living by some other means.
🔮 "But within a relatively short period of time, the thought occurred to me, and I think to the others in the majority, that this would endanger us.
🔮 He could have served in government, but he didn't.
🔮 (Southwick's already fragile reputation would be irreparably tarnished by such a move.)
🔮 The conduct caused disturbances that would have resulted in violence had law enforcement not intervened.
🔮 "It follows that if the underpinning is removed, the increasing professionalism will also disappear.
🔮 In December 2017, I wrote in National Review that Republican-appointed judges should consider taking senior status so President Trump could fill those seats.
🔮 Since he joined the Court, Roberts and his family would seek solace from the swamp at Hupper Island after the Court dismisses for the term.
🔮 Even if Congress were to enact a law clearly empowering Article III courts to vacate agency rules or regulations and automatically cause their erasure from the Code of Federal Regulations, vacatur would likely still be inconsistent with the limited nature of the judicial power and the non-delegability of core legislative power to the judiciary.
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