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Charen: "As a tech naïf myself, I don’t have a prediction about what will happen, but can report my own profoundly mixed feelings."

I'm not tech savvy either but you don't need to even know Twitter's product/service to realize that Musk's endgame is pre-meditated self-inflicted deliberate Chapter 7 bankruptcy

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Female ophthalmologist here. Been in practice for 30 years. I was a rarity 30 years ago (as were POC eye MD's)...not because we weren't smart or skilled enough, but because the power structures kept us out. My residency has 13 residents/year.Each class year at the time had 2 women/class. If they were POC too...well super! During my interview for the very competitive residency, I was asked (at a conference table surrounded only by male attending physicians and residents) whether I believed in affirmative action. I think I mumbled something about the present company's make-up and that my top of the class and board exams spoke for themselves, but if affirmative action made them pick me I'd be happy. 30 years later, the class make-up is about 50/50 (with many more POCs)and the head of services is a woman. Do we still need affirmative action? I personally think yes. Power is a corrosive drug and the recent SCOTUS ruling allowing discrimination of a class of citizens as well as denial of bodily autonomy for women shows that we're seeing a backlash to the progress of women and minorities in society.

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Please join threads asap.

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You need to revisit the dissents.

This Court is unhinged. When Goursuch found in favor of tran rights, while I loved the outcome I rejected the way he got there. This Court abandoned any form of originalism where inconvenient (that is what makes the AA case outrageous, not how you feel about its outcome).

It then appropriated to itself through its made up doctrine of "major questions" in the student loan case the ability to function as the ultimate legislative body. That, as Kagan said, is far outside of the Supreme Court's constitutional authority.

I was once a "majesty of the law" type of lawyer. This court has sadly (for all of us) has shaken that: where there is no coherent, consistently followed doctrine--there is no rule of law. That is where this court has taken us.

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Heard Neal in front of the Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper. He was incredible. Just wanted to give him a shout out and I hope the court keeps the audio going for cases.

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Thank you for filling in, Mona.

I don’t agree with your opinions related to affirmative action and the court in general, but you do write beautifully and, after hearing audio of your brave, early, truth telling at CPAC, you have my eternal respect. That took some serious spine and I couldn’t have done it.

I enjoyed your conversation with A.B. It’s always fun to hear new combinations of Bulwark contributors mixing it up.

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Will Saletan’s The Corruption of Lindsey Graham is a great podcast!

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Many of you seem surprised that Mona or Charlie or Jim S or Bill or Tim might take a conservative position on a legal or policy matter.

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Thank you Mona for filling in for Charlie. You raised a lot of good points.

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Will Saletan - I thought that since I'd read your article about The Corruption of Lindsey Graham that listening to the podcast would be duplicative. I was WRONG. I'm so glad that I listened to the first episode anyway. This podcast is riveting because Will included many more audio examples of Lindsey that were edited out of the articles. MORE Lindsey quotes means an even more in-depth, chock full of evidence of Lindsey in his own words charting the evolution of his public views and statements about Donald Trump. There's no substitute for hearing it from the horse's mouth. I am reaffirmed that Lindsey is a living example of Lin Manuel Miranda's depiction of Aaron Burr in Hamilton as a politician whose ambition was to be in "The Room Where it Happened," in proximity to power if he couldn't have power directly. I also appreciate Will's straight, dispassionate delivery. Kudos!!! There's seven more years of Lindsey public statements to go.

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Good post Ms Charen, you stirred up good discussion. And to all the commenters, Good stuff, I enjoyed reading all of your comments. Really didn't see any that made me cringe.

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Thanks for taking a turn at the wheel Mona! I enjoyed it...

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If, as Bill Leuders says, the GOP want to rename Ft Liberty, then perhaps if the NYC DA is successful in his prosecution of DJT they can name the fort after him.

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I believe this is a well-thought out column. Just allowing minority students into universities who lack the necessary preparedness is a formula for failure. Furthermore, I have seen the other side of affirmative action wherein a white student not raised in wealth is denied admission, despite superior test scores and grades, because of racial quotas. Mona is right that the real answer is to make grade-school education more equitable.

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"Miss it but not mourn it," on the nose

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I politely disagree with your conclusion concerning the over all impact of the court.

It’s all about “standing”. From what multiple sources have stated, neither Missouri (student loans) or Smith (web design for gay marriage) have standing. Removing that guardrail will lead to more and more cases based on hypothetical harm.

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