Standing Up for the Rule of Law
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DENNIS AFTERGUT: Standing Up for the Rule of Law
SOMETIMES POLITICAL TRENDS are hit-you-over-the-head obvious. Other times, you have to stand back and squint to detect the pattern. If you look at a handful of seemingly disparate events across the country from the last few weeks, you will see something promising for our future: defenders of the rule of law working against Trumpist attempts to erode it.
First up, a story from the American Bar Association, that once-stodgy mainstay of the lawyering profession. On August 2, the ABA’s bipartisan Task Force on Democracy sounded a call to arms to lawyers to get active defending the rule of law.
The task force is headed by Michael Luttig, the conservative icon and retired federal judge, and Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security during President Barack Obama’s second term. Several of the task force members are prominent lawyers—including Maureen O’Connor, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio; Thomas B. Griffith, a retired Republican-appointed federal judge; Ben Ginsberg, the preeminent Republican expert on election law; and Jeff Rosen, a liberal legal-affairs commentator who runs the National Constitution Center. Other well-known task force members include Dick Gephardt, Heather Cox Richardson, Danielle Allen, Carly Fiorina, Chris Krebs, and The Bulwark’s own Bill Kristol.
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🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Thursday! The heat has died down here, and we’re just getting settled. Thanks to all Queen City locals who sent their well wishes. Hope to have a Bulwark+ meetup soon.
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Why the Swiftboating of Walz… will fail (Adam Kinzinger)
Dril makes it into a Harris press release… Perhaps a little too online, but I love it.
RIP Mr. “Democracy Manifest”… Jack Karlson, dead at 82. (I opted for local fare for dinner but really wanted a “succulent Chinese meal.”)
Ladies and gentleman, please welcome… the co-host of CNN's Crossfire, famed political consultant, the ragin Cajun, Mr. James Carville to Conversations with Bill Kristol.
⌚️John Mayer… on Being the Watch World’s Celebrity ‘Go-To Guy’ (NYT)
Mortgage rates are at their lowest… in 15 months. (WSJ)
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