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Marty Lederman

@marty_lederman

ConLaw Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center

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Huh? A 42-paragraph story about how many chess grandmasters are accusing one another of cheating, without a single word explaining what the cheating might consist of.

Am I overlooking something? Is it self-evident?

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Naturally, discrete parts of this are reasonably subject to dispute. But on a quick read it appears to be a very helpful, cautious and nontendentious summary. Recommended.

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A balladeer of staggering depth and pathos, Shane MacGowan's best songs laid bare the hiding-in-plain-sight throughline between Johnny Mathis and Johnny Rotten, and rendered comi-tragic, class-addled chronicles the vaulting equal of Merle Haggard's best. In every way astonishing.

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Kagan, J., in the Jarkesy argument:

Agency-initiated administrative adjudications have been commonplace for more than 50 years and no one (until now) has challenged them on Seventh Amendment grounds because ... 'nobody has had the chutzpah (to quote my people).'

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What happened fifty years ago this weekend--both on Saturday and Sunday--had an indelible impact on me, for better and for worse.

RIP, Bob Ufer.

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Fractured History Alert:

Gus Johnson: Jesse Owens 'made Ohio State famous when he won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in front of a bad, bad man.'

I suppose that's one way of putting it.

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