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[quote=Anonymous]These are trying times for people who value the law, objectivity, and logical coherence. As lawyers, a lot of us are deeply invested in those values, and the past decade has been disorienting. There are times lately when it feels like these instincts and intuitions are being flat mocked -- jubilantly and with abandon -- by a party that won an election with 49.8% of the vote.

We are in the process of detonating a system that, while imperfect and often unfair, worked very well at scale for a lot of people for the past 85 years. We have no idea what we are replacing it with; the path forward will be governed by the ejaculations and whims of a personality cult that cares nothing for democracy, the rule of law, or any of the values that movement conservatives lectured the nation about for three generations.

In the Fall of 1999, David Strauss taught my 1L class one hell of an Elements of the Law course. The punchline was that a Hobbesian nightmare awaited us on the other side of a very thin barrier, and if lawyers want to do something useful they should try to shore up the barrier. We failed. It was probably over when McConnell refused to allow the Senate to perform its advice and consent obligation w/r/t Garland. You might pick an earlier or later event, but the bottom line is that it's over.

Disillusionment? It's the only sane response.

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