re: How do we go to war with lawfare?

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can you link us examples of these so called "conservative" lawfare contributors being hired by the Trump admistration.

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I never said Trump had ever hired a Lawfare contributor. He tends to hire exclusively from the ranks of partisan activists.

I am not going to spend time researching the ideology of everyone who has ever contributed an article to Lawfare. I’ve read many of their articles, and they seem to be well written, well researched, and objective. Sometimes I agree with the analysis, and sometimes I disagree with it.

An interesting take:

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One big question is whether Lawfare contributors will rethink their general (if not universal) promotion of a strong theory of executive power. Is the enhanced power of the presidency a loaded gun that Bush and Obama handed Trump with the support of the national-security community that Lawfare often represents? “I’m an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority,” Wittes says. “That’s why I might be more alarmed by Trump. If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.”

In the past, Lawfare contributors have sparred with their equally knowledgeable but generally more liberal counterparts on another smart and topical legal blog called Just Security. Some Just Security writers seem to think they’ve essentially won the argument. “Lawfare has typically supported a strong executive on national security and intelligence matters,” David Cole, the national legal director of the A.C.L.U., wrote to me in an email. “Now that Donald Trump is president, its authors are beginning to see the real perils of that position. The last thing anyone wants is an unchecked President Trump.”

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going to war with the dems. get a hobby.

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they aren't dems. They're marxists. They've been at war with us since ww2. You are probably just too dumb to know.

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is that all you trumpkins think about. blood in the streets, going to war with the dems. get a hobby.

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Is all you think about posting stupid comments here?

What a fricking idiotic comment, given the array of subjects on the board right now

And the hiring of a special victims interviewer is not the same as Goldman’s hiring.

The special victims interviewer was in response the lawfare tactics of Katz and Senate Dems of false sexual assault claims.

Republicans were trying to be sensitive.

Interesting. Is that lots if contributions across the board, or a couple of big ones by one or two guys?

anything posted on here that does not agree with your opinion is an idiotic comment. what would you do without this board to bash people.

Tough to say based upon the link. There is another chart breaking down total contributions by individuals, PACs and more recently including soft money. The notes accompanying the data reference a minimum of $200 contribution to be included in the data set.

Going back to the 90’s, the contribution totals were very low. Contributions exploded from 2008 through the last cycle.

Of course, there are supposedly limits on contributions.

"Why do people on government welfare vote?"

Like veterans benefits?

"Why do illegal aliens get better treatment than US Veterans?"

Wait, just a sentence ago you were complaining about them.


"Why do people who live with their parents and make poverty level wages lecture me on anything?"

Because you listen to them.

"Why do we teach to the lowest common denominator in public schools?"

Because not everyone is Harvard material.

"Why can't news agencies report the color/race of people committing crimes? Am I looking for a white teenager with a hoodie? Y/N?"

They do.

"I wonder why elites want to ban gun ownership, but live behind a wall of professional armed security?"

Because maybe it would lead to fewer "people in a hoodie" (your previous post) wandering around with Saturday Night Specials.

"I don't know what Lawfare is, but a decent chunk of lawyers are scum."

Everyone says that until they need one for a divorce or dwi or your son is caught with a joint or something, then all of a sudden lawyers are the greatest guys.