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It aired on Chinese television during 2015 and 2016. The\nactors, including its star, Sun Li, all spoke in Chinese.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhat\nfollows is a conversation between the king of Qin and his queen, a former\nprincess of Chu. (Qin and Chu were the two primary contenders for hegemony during much of the Warring States period, with Qin ultimately prevailing.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EKing Huiwen: This hair pin\nand your hair style complement each other.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EQueen Huiwen: Qin’s LanTian\njade\u003C\/i\u003E [jewellery] \u003Ci\u003Eis the best in the world. I have this \u003C\/i\u003E[pin]\u003Ci\u003E because of you.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EKing: \u003C\/i\u003E[The]\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EQueen likes Qin’s\nLanTian jade. But does not like Qin’s food. I heard that you think the grains \u003C\/i\u003E[ie, wheat from northern\nand western China]\u003Ci\u003E are too rough.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EQueen: My body is\nweak—grains can easily upset the stomach. So I dare not use it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EKing: No harm. You\nare the Queen. The \u003C\/i\u003E[relatively\nexpensive]\u003Ci\u003E rice \u003C\/i\u003E[from southern China]\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ein the palace can be eaten at your discretion. But I prefer\nthose rice\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E. \u003Cb\u003EAfter eating the rice, I\nwill be hungry in one or two hours. It is not useful.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EEpisode\n29 (bold added), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z6k43r3a\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z6k43r3a\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; (quoting close captioned\nmaterials) (at 7:20-8:15).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nconcept that you might be hungry soon after eating certain traditional Chinese delicacies\nis not some foolishness rooted in bigotry, prejudice, and ignorance. Many people—including\nsome Chinese people—have recognized that certain rice-based dishes can be digested\nquickly leaving the person feeling hungry in a relatively short period.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOf\ncourse, when my wife and I saw this scene, we both laughed, as I suspect many\nviewers in China did in 2015. The king merely stated what many know to be a true.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EPS: \u003Ci\u003EThe\nLegend of Mi Yue\u003C\/i\u003E is an extraordinarily beautiful and moving historical drama. I give it 10 out of 10, only because I cannot give it an 11.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EIs It True What They Say About Chinese Food?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(June 21, 2023, 13:51 PM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/is-it-true-what-they-say-about-chinese.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/is-it-true-what-they-say-about-chinese.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7001437135094552441\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=7001437135094552441","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/7001437135094552441"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/7001437135094552441"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/is-it-true-what-they-say-about-chinese.html","title":"   Is It True What They Say About Chinese Food?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8697629417764206967"},"published":{"$t":"2023-06-20T12:47:00.009-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-27T02:34:11.584-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Climate Change Activists’ Embrace of Rationing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth\nBarrett Tillman, Associate Professor\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EMaynooth\nUniversity School of Law and Criminology\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E(\u003Ci\u003Eacademic\ntitle \u0026amp; affiliation for identification purposes only\u003C\/i\u003E)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EJune\n20, 2023\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIrish\nExaminer\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ELetters Editor \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003Eletters@examiner.ie\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ERE: John Gibbons,\n‘Why we should ration the distance each person can fly every year,’ \u003Ci\u003EIrish\nExaminer\u003C\/i\u003E (June 20, 2023, 11:55 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3cret6m8\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3cret6m8\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EJohn\nGibbons suggests a 1,500 km annual allotment per Irish national\/resident for air travel. So you\ncould do Dublin–Paris round trip. Europe is within reach.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut\nif you are a new Irish national, from Caracas, Venezuela, and you’d like to\nvisit family and friends: Dublin-to-Caracas is a 7,000 km distance, just one\nway. And if you are a new Irish national, from Cape Town, South Africa, and\nyou’d like to visit family and friends: Dublin-to-Cape Town is a 10,000 km distance,\njust one way. And if you are a new Irish national, from New Delhi, India, and\nyou’d like to visit family and friends: Dublin-to-New Delhi is an 8,000 km distance,\njust one way. Even Rabat, Morocco is over 2,000 km from Dublin.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EUnder\nGibbons’ scheme, as near as I can make out, if you want to visit a historically\nCaucasian-majority country in Europe, then you can continue to do so tax free.\nBut just go try and visit some third-world country where the majority\npopulation’s skin tone has a different complexion, and then you will be taxed\nfor the privilege.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIf\none of Ireland’s minuscule right-wing nationalist parties proposed such a\npolicy, they’d be labelled bigots. But if the very same policy is put forward\nin the name of environmentalism and climate change, precisely what conclusion or conclusions should we draw?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIs\nmise, le meas,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett\nTillman\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman, Letter to the Editor, ‘Restricting flights closes\nthe world,’ \u003Ci\u003EIrish Examiner\u003C\/i\u003E (June 27, 2023, 2:00 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/opinion\/yourview\/arid-41170720.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/opinion\/yourview\/arid-41170720.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; , \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4486380\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4486380\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u0026gt; (responding to John Gibbons’ ‘Why we should ration the distance each person can\nfly every year’);\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;‘\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EClimate Change Activists’ Embrace of Rationing\u003C\/span\u003E,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(June 20, 2023, 12:47 PM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/climate-change-activists-embrace-of.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/climate-change-activists-embrace-of.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 17.3333px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8697629417764206967\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8697629417764206967","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8697629417764206967"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8697629417764206967"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/climate-change-activists-embrace-of.html","title":"Climate Change Activists’ Embrace of Rationing"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-5665293015707781135"},"published":{"$t":"2023-06-16T13:55:00.011-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-20T12:42:53.828-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tillman on Plagiarism in the Trump Litigation Briefs"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis is my answer to an inquiry about\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E“plagiarism” in certain briefs ....\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI\ndon’t think Trump\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Es lawyers used the word “plagiarism”—which is an assertion of a wrong. I do\nthink it is more likely than not that my co-authored \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003ELawfare \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Epaper (and other\npublications) influenced thinking on both sides and pointed both sides to\nfurther useful authorities. (Indeed, I sent copies of my publications to\nlawyers on both sides—a man has got to eat!)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBragg’s\nattorneys cited many primary authorities (which I also had cited), and they did\nnot take personal credit for the ideas in their brief as (wholly) original to\nthemselves. They just decided to cite those other authorities and not to cite Professor Josh Blackman, my co-author, and me. That’s something they are entirely entitled to do. \u003Ci\u003ESee\u003C\/i\u003E Seth Barrett\nTillman, ‘Some Thoughts on Plagiarism, Plagiarists, Fools, and Legal Fools,’ \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/span\u003E (Apr. 6, 2016, 2:11 PM),\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003E\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/some-thoughts-on-plagiarism-plagiarists.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/some-thoughts-on-plagiarism-plagiarists.html\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003ESee generally\u003C\/i\u003E anything by Professor Brian L. Frye on plagiarism.\nI have written on the scope of the duty to give credit.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ESee \u003C\/i\u003ETillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E‘Some Thoughts\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E,’ \u003Ci\u003Esupra\u003C\/i\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EAnd I don’t\nfault Bragg’s lawyers for citing others and not me. (Of course, I would have\nbeen delighted to have been cited by\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EBragg’s lawyers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E—as I am only human.)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EI\nalso don’t think Trump’s lawyers did anything wrong by flagging to the court\nthat there were similarities between what was in Bragg’s brief and what was in\nmy publications, and how those similarities could be explained. “Cribbed,” as\nused in Trump’s lawyers’ brief, might mean no more than copied, as opposed to\nwrongfully copied. Some level of copying, particularly standard views and well\nknown positions—as my views are by now after exposure on \u003Ci style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EOpening\nArguments \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003EInstapundit\u003C\/i\u003E, is to be expected in legal briefs. So some copying and\ncribbing is not necessarily a wrong, particularly where statements about law\nare at issue, as opposed to statements about facts. Indeed, that distinction is\none appellate courts regularly apply to trial courts. If a trial court copies a\nparty’s brief’s analysis of law, a court of appeals \u003Cb\u003EIS NOT\u003C\/b\u003E likely to\nfault the trial court, much less overturn its decision. But if a trial court\ncopies a party’s brief’s analysis of contested facts, a court of appeals \u003Cb\u003EIS\u003C\/b\u003E\nlikely to fault the trial court, and may overturn the trial court’s decision,\nand just perhaps, it may direct the case be moved to another judge for a retrial.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOf\ncourse Professor Hasen may have a different view.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ETillman on Plagiarism in the Trump Litigation Briefs\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E,’ \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;(June 16, 2023, 13:55 PM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/tillman-on-plagiarism-in-trump.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/tillman-on-plagiarism-in-trump.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ESee also\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-indent: -18pt;\"\u003EJosh Blackman, ‘Trump’s Lawyers Cite, And Disagree with Blackman \u0026amp; Tillman\nOn Whether The President Is or Is Not An “Officer of the United States”,’ \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003EReason–Volokh Conspiracy\u003C\/span\u003E (June 16,\n2023, 1:39 PM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2023\/06\/16\/trumps-lawyers-cites-and-disagrees-with-blackman-tillman-on-whether-the-president-is-not-an-officer-of-the-united-states\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2023\/06\/16\/trumps-lawyers-cites-and-disagrees-with-blackman-tillman-on-whether-the-president-is-not-an-officer-of-the-united-states\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-indent: -18pt;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ESee generally\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E[Former] President\nDonald J. Trump’s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to the People of the State of\nNew York’s Motion for Remand at v, 2 \u0026amp; n.1, The People of the State of New\nYork v. Donald J. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:23-cv-03773-AKH (S.D.N.Y. June 15, 2023)\n(Hellerstein, J.) (citing multiple Tillman-authored and\nBlackman-Tillman-authored publications), Doc. No. 34, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; color: #171717;\"\u003E\u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; color: #1d2228;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311\/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311.34.0.pdf\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #171717; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311\/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311.34.0.pdf\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; color: #171717;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"outline: none;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; color: #171717;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"background: white; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5665293015707781135\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=5665293015707781135","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/5665293015707781135"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/5665293015707781135"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/tillman-on-plagiarism-in-trump.html","title":"Tillman on Plagiarism in the Trump Litigation Briefs"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-4968438341054348031"},"published":{"$t":"2023-06-09T09:13:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-09T09:15:55.810-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Additional Judges Will Not Solve the Irish Judicial Backlog"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-caps: small-caps;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003EDeputy Carol Nolan TD (Independent, Laois-Offaly), \u003Ci\u003EDáil\nÉireann debate: Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed)\u003C\/i\u003E,\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003EHouses of the Oireachtas\u003C\/span\u003E (May 30,\n2023), \u0026lt;https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/debate\/dail\/2023-05-30\/11\/\u0026gt; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003EDeputy Nolan discussed proposed judicial reforms\nand appointments, and she further stated: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003EThe\nGovernment says that it is considering the appointment of several additional\njudges to speed up the process. However, I will make the point—\u003Cb\u003Eone made by\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EMr.\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cb\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman of Maynooth University many times\u003C\/b\u003E—that\nthese appointments will not improve matters if the rules and traditions that\nguide the conduct of litigation carry on using the same or a similar procedural\nframework. In fact, it will just mean that whatever new courts we set up will\ncontinue to be weighed down by the exact same backlog in the exact same way as\nexists now. (bold added)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E‘Additional Judges Will Not\nSolve the Irish Judicial Backlog,’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E \u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E (June 9, 2023, 9:13 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/additional-judges-will-not-solve-irish.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/additional-judges-will-not-solve-irish.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4968438341054348031\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=4968438341054348031","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/4968438341054348031"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/4968438341054348031"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/additional-judges-will-not-solve-irish.html","title":"Additional Judges Will Not Solve the Irish Judicial Backlog"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-802681705698583188"},"published":{"$t":"2023-06-08T05:32:00.009-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-08T06:34:28.861-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Note on the Opinion Clause and the Unitary Theory of the Executive"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EI do\nnot think it is all that difficult to explain the Opinion Clause as consistent\nwith the President’s having a removal power per the unitary theory of the\nexecutive. I am \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Esaying the unitary theory of the executive is correct—only\nthat that position is consistent with the Constitution’s drafters’ having\nincorporated the Opinion Clause into the Constitution’s text.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\ncounter-position goes like this. If the President has a constitutionally granted\npower—i.e., a power not subject to limitation by federal statute—to remove principal\nExecutive Branch officers which he appoints, then he can direct such\nsubordinates to answer questions. If such an officer refuses to respond to the\nPresident’s inquiries, then the President can remove the non-responsive officer.\nIn other words, if the President has an unqualified removal power, then the Opinion\nClause has no real function \u003Ci\u003Ebecause the power to request opinions flows from\nthe power to remove\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut\nthat argument does not work. This is why.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ECongress\ncreates and defines offices. In other words, Congress can set qualifications, and\nCongress could also limit the ability of an officer to communicate with third\nparties—including the President. If Congress insulated an officer from\ncommunicating (even voluntarily) with the President, then the President would\nbe unable to justify a removal based on the officers’ future conduct. Such\nconduct would not be known until it emerges. In such circumstances, the\nPresident would have to wait for the officer to engage in wrongdoing (as the\nPresident understands wrongdoing) before removing him.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe\nOpinion Clause works in tandem with the Take Care Clause. Both clauses empower\na President in regard to supervising a subordinate Executive Branch officer\nprior to the latter’s engaging in wrongdoing (as the President understands\nwrongdoing). The Opinion Clause functions as a limit on Congress’s power to create\n(or authorize or regularize) and define offices created by federal statute. To\nput it another way, the Opinion Clause makes presidential supervision of subordinate\nExecutive Branch officers possible in circumstances where Congress might otherwise\nblock the flow of information between the President and the President’s subordinates.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003EBut compare\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 107%; text-align: left;\"\u003E Seila L. LLC v. CFPB, 140 S. Ct. 2183, 2227 n.3 (2020)\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E (Kagan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n(arguing that the Opinions Clause is “inexplicable” if the President has a removal\npower), \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Ewith \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EElena Kagan, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EPresidential Administration\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E, 114 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003EHarv. L. Rev. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E2245, 2324 (2012) (“Congress\nusually has done nothing to suggest that it wishes to interfere with this\nauthority as to executive branch agencies; and even if Congress has indicated\nthis intent as to the independents, Article II of the Constitution, most\nnotably its Opinions Clause, may bar Congress from such interference.” (foonote\nomitted)), \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Eid\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E. at 2324 n.311 (“The Opinions Clause may receive\nreinforcement, for purposes of this argument, from the Take Care Clause, see\nU.S. Const. art. II, § 3 (obligating the President to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003Etake Care that the Laws\nbe faithfully executed\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E). Although framed in the language of duty rather than\npower, this clause may imply some minimum amount of presidential oversight\nauthority, on the theory that the President could not perform this function if\nunable to require information from and engage in consultations with agency\nofficials.”).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘A Note on the Opinion Clause and the Unitary Theory of the Executive,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(June 8, 2023, 5:32 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/a-note-on-opinion-clause-and-unitary.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/a-note-on-opinion-clause-and-unitary.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/802681705698583188\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=802681705698583188","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/802681705698583188"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/802681705698583188"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/a-note-on-opinion-clause-and-unitary.html","title":"A Note on the Opinion Clause and the Unitary Theory of the Executive"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-6814678467296380722"},"published":{"$t":"2023-06-01T02:08:00.013-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-01T07:08:20.812-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Judge Peter J. Messitte on “Officers of the United States”"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EJudge Peter J. Messitte in \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EDistrict of Columbia \u0026amp;\nThe State of Maryland v. Donald J. Trump, individually and in his official\ncapacity as President of the United States\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E,\nCiv. A. No. 8:17-cv-01596-PJM, 2018 WL 3559027, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124129, 315\nF. Supp. 3d 875 (D. Md. July 25, 2018), ECF No. 124, \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mdd.uscourts.gov\/news\/opinion-issued-district-columbia-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-2018-07-25t000000?\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.mdd.uscourts.gov\/news\/opinion-issued-district-columbia-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-2018-07-25t000000?\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E[Office\nof Legal Counsel (“OLC”)] pronouncements repeatedly cite the broad purpose of\nthe Clauses and the expansive reach of the term “emolument.” \u003Cem\u003ESee, e.g.,\nApplicability of Emoluments Clause to Proposed Service of Government Employee\non Commission of International Historians\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E, 11 Op. O.L.C. 89, 90 (1987) (“Consistent with\nits expansive language and underlying purpose, the [Foreign Emoluments Clause]\nhas been interpreted as being ‘particularly directed against every kind of\ninfluence by foreign governments upon \u003Cb\u003Eofficers of the United States\u003C\/b\u003E, based\nupon historic policies as a nation.’” (quoting 24 Op. Att\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003Ey Gen. 116, 117\n(1902) (emphasis omitted)); \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003EApplicability of the Emoluments Clause to\nNongovernment Members of ACUS\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0d0d0d; float: none;\"\u003E, 17 Op. O.L.C. 114, 121 (1993) (“The language of\nthe Emoluments Clause is both \u003Cb\u003Esweeping and unqualified\u003C\/b\u003E.”); Memorandum\nfor Andrew F. Oehmann, Office of the Attorney General, from Norbert A. Schlei,\nAssistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, \u003Cem\u003ERe: Invitation by\nItalian Government to officials of the Immigration \u0026amp; Naturalization Service\n\u0026amp; a Member of the White House Staff\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none;\"\u003E at 2 (Oct. 16, 1962),\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/page\/file\/935741\/download\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/page\/file\/935741\/download\u003C\/a\u003E (noting “the sweeping\nnature of the constitutional prohibition and the fact that in the past it has\nbeen strictly construed, being directed against every possible kind of\ninfluence by foreign governments over \u003Cb\u003Eofficers of the United States\u003C\/b\u003E.”).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003EId\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E. at 901–02\n(bold added).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003EUnited States v. Nordean\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003E, Crim. A. No. 21-175 (TJK),\n2022 WL 17583799, at *15 (D.D.C. Dec. 11, 2022) (Kelly, J.) (“For all these\nreasons, the Court holds that members of Congress hold an ‘office, trust, or\nplace of confidence under the United States’ and are ‘officers of the United\nStates’ under 18 U.S.C. § 372.”); \u003Ci\u003Eid\u003C\/i\u003E. at *11 (“Considered in isolation,\nNordean offers a plausible reason for construing the phrase ‘officers of the\nUnited States’ as limited to its constitutional meaning, which would exclude\nmembers of Congress. But ultimately, the Court finds that Section 372’s entire\ntext, structure, and history point to a \u003Cb\u003Ebroader meaning of the phrase\u003C\/b\u003E.”\n(bold added)); \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003EBlumenthal v. Trump\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003E, Civ. A. No.\n17-cv-1154-EGS, 2019 WL 1923398, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72431, 373 F. Supp. 3d\n191, 206 (D.D.C. Apr. 30, 2019) (Sullivan, J.), ECF No. 67 (“Memorandum from\nNorbert A. Schlei, Assistant Att\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003Ey Gen., Office of Legal Counsel, to Andrew F.\nOehmann, Office of the Att’y Gen., Re: Invitation by Italian Government to\nOfficials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service \u0026amp; a Member of the\nWhite House Staff 2 (Oct. 16, 1962),\nhttps:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/page\/file\/935741\/download (noting ‘the sweeping\nnature of the constitutional prohibition and the fact that in the past it has\nbeen strictly construed, being directed against every possible kind of\ninfluence by foreign governments over \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003Eofficers of the United States\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E’).”\n(bold added)),\n\u0026lt;https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EmolumentsDCmtd-ORDER.pdf\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003EThompson v. Trump\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #0d0d0d; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: \u0026quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000\u0026quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;\"\u003E, 590 F. Supp. 3d 46, 94 (D.D.C.\nFeb. 18, 2022) (Mehta, J.) (“[I]n the end, President Trump’s argument still\nrequires equating ‘officer’ with the meaning of the term as used in the\nConstitution. The court already has rejected that equivalency. The question\nhere is whether the Reconstruction-Era Congress would have understood members\nof Congress to occupy an ‘office, trust, or place of confidence under the\nUnited States’ or qualify as an ‘\u003Cb\u003Eofficer of the United States\u003C\/b\u003E.’ They\ncertainly would have.” (bold added));\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EUnited States v. Rhodes\u003C\/i\u003E, Case No. 22-CR-15-APM, 610\nF. Supp. 3d 29, 50–53 (D.D.C. June 28, 2022) (Mehta, J.).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘Judge Peter J. Messitte on “Officers of the United States”,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(June 1, 2023, 2:08 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/judge-peter-j-messitte-on-officers-of.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/judge-peter-j-messitte-on-officers-of.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6814678467296380722\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=6814678467296380722","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6814678467296380722"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6814678467296380722"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/judge-peter-j-messitte-on-officers-of.html","title":"Judge Peter J. Messitte on “Officers of the United States”"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1281526406604974291"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-31T09:18:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-31T09:19:34.164-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"‘“Romance of the Three Kingdoms”—How it Begins and Ends’ "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nopening: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EDomains under\nheaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of\nunion, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe penultimate\nparagraph: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThat is domains\nunder heaven, after a long period of union, tends to divide; after a long\nperiod of division, tends to unite.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 150.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd\nits text ends with: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ELiu Shan, the\nEmperor of Shu-Han, passed away in the seventh year of Great Beginning, in Jin\ncalendar (CE 271). Cao Huang, the Emperor of Wei, passed away in the first year\nof Magnificent Peace (CE 302). And Sun Hao, the Emperor of Wu, passed away in\nthe fourth year of Prosperous Peace (CE 283). All three [emperors] died of\nnatural causes.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;‘“Romance\nof the Three Kingdoms”—How it Begins and Ends,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 31, 2023, 9:18 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/romance-of-three-kingdomshow-it-begins.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/romance-of-three-kingdomshow-it-begins.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1281526406604974291\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=1281526406604974291","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/1281526406604974291"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/1281526406604974291"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/romance-of-three-kingdomshow-it-begins.html","title":"‘“Romance of the Three Kingdoms”—How it Begins and Ends’ "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8805683630575718725"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-31T05:38:00.016-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-31T07:59:27.565-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Irish Judicial Backlog"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EDeputy \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003ECarol Nolan TD (Independent, Laois-Offaly), \u003Ci\u003EDáil Éireann debate: Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage\n(Resumed)\u003C\/i\u003E, \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003EHouses of the Oireachtas\u003C\/span\u003E\n(May 30, 2023), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/debate\/dail\/2023-05-30\/11\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/debate\/dail\/2023-05-30\/11\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EDeputy Nolan discussed proposed judicial reforms and appointments, and she further stated: “The\nGovernment says that it is considering the appointment of several additional\njudges to speed up the process. However, I will make the point—one made by \u003Cb\u003EMr.\nSeth Barrett Tillman of Maynooth University many times[\u003Ci\u003E!\u003C\/i\u003E]\u003C\/b\u003E—that these\nappointments will not improve matters if the rules and traditions that guide\nthe conduct of litigation carry on using the same or a similar procedural\nframework. In fact, it will just mean that whatever new courts we set up will\ncontinue to be weighed down by the exact same backlog in the exact same way as\nexists now.” (bold added).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: times;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times;\"\u003EThe Irish Judicial Backlog,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: times;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 31, 2023, 5:38 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11; font-family: times; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-irish-judicial-backlog.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-irish-judicial-backlog.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ETillman's publications on Irish law and policy:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[1] Seth Barrett Tillman, Viewpoint, ‘\u003Cspan style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003EAll\nat sea: Why were former Chief Justice Frank Clarke and former High Court\nPresident Peter Kelly cajoled into resigning their judicial positions in the\nUnited Arab Emirates, when the ultimate beneficiaries would have been UAE\nlitigants\u003C\/span\u003E,’ 116(8) \u003Cb\u003EGazette of the Law Society Ireland\u003C\/b\u003E 22–23 (Oct.\n7,\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E2022),\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/globalassets\/documents\/gazette\/gazette-pdfs\/gazette-2022\/october-2022-gazette.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/globalassets\/documents\/gazette\/gazette-pdfs\/gazette-2022\/october-2022-gazette.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/in-depth\/judicial-positions-and-uae\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/in-depth\/judicial-positions-and-uae\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4193901\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4193901\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[2] Seth Barrett Tillman, Viewpoint, ‘Access to Court Records and Oral\nArguments,’ 115(1) \u003Cb\u003EGazette of the Law Society Ireland\u003C\/b\u003E 14–17 (Feb. 5,\n2021), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3740512\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3740512\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/globalassets\/documents\/gazette\/gazette-pdfs\/gazette-2021\/jan-feb-2021-gazette.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/globalassets\/documents\/gazette\/gazette-pdfs\/gazette-2021\/jan-feb-2021-gazette.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[3] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Court of public opinion\noffers Séamus Woulfe no justice,’\u003Cb\u003E The Sunday Times \u003C\/b\u003E(Ireland edn), Nov.\n15, 2020, 12:01 AM GMT, News Section, page 14, \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y69zfkso\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y69zfkso\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;, \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3729356\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3729356\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[4] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘COVID-19: Can the Oireachtas Legislate During\nthe Pandemic?,’ 38(7) \u003Cb\u003EIrish Law Times \u003C\/b\u003E94 (2020) (Terri McDonnell, ed.),\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3561117\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003ECOVID-19: Can the Oireachtas\nLegislate During the Pandemic?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/can-oireachtas-legislate-during-pandemic.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/can-oireachtas-legislate-during-pandemic.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7u54woq\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7u54woq\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[5] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial (Thunderer), ‘Court of\nAppeal failure should fuel reform of judiciary,’ \u003Cb\u003EThe Times \u003C\/b\u003E(Ireland\nedn), July 26, 2018, 12:01 AM, \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb2qb8dc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb2qb8dc\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3370810\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3370810\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;\n(available on Nexis);\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[6] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘The Court of Appeal Backlog,’ 35(15) \u003Cb\u003EIrish\nLaw Times \u003C\/b\u003E206–08 (2017), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2996405\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2996405\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[7] Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Has the [Irish] Court of Appeal Solved the\nJudicial Backlog? Can it?,’ 34(14) \u003Cb\u003EIrish Law Times\u003C\/b\u003E 210–12 (2016),\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2816458\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2816458\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[8] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Court of Appeal just a new\nversion of Supreme Court—only more costly,’ \u003Cb\u003EThe Irish Times\u003C\/b\u003E (July 28,\n2014, 1:30 AM), Business \u0026amp; Innovation at 7,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2465554\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2465554\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/crime-and-law\/court-of-appeal-just-a-new-version-of-supreme-court-only-more-costly-1.1874746\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/crime-and-law\/court-of-appeal-just-a-new-version-of-supreme-court-only-more-costly-1.1874746\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n2014 WLNR 20562005;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003Eand,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[9] Seth Barrett Tillman, Opinion Editorial, ‘Time to Open Courts and\nLet Justice Be Seen,’ \u003Cb\u003EThe Irish Independent\u003C\/b\u003E, August 22, 2012, 17:00 PM,\nat A14, \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/seth_barrett_tillman\/334\/\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/works.bepress.com\/seth_barrett_tillman\/334\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; (hard copy\nversion), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bsy9789\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bsy9789\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; (available on Nexis),\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2129771\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2129771\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd, also, on democracy, free speech, and immigration-related issues: Seth\nBarrett Tillman, ‘East Wall and the Plantations: Ireland and Its New Migrants,’\n\u003Cb\u003EThe American Spectator\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Ci\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E(Dec. 6, 2022, 10:48 PM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/ireland-new-migrants-east-wall\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/spectator.org\/ireland-new-migrants-east-wall\u003C\/a\u003E\/\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/author\/seth-barrett-tillman\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/spectator.org\/author\/seth-barrett-tillman\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4296073\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4296073\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8805683630575718725\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8805683630575718725","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8805683630575718725"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8805683630575718725"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-irish-judicial-backlog.html","title":"The Irish Judicial Backlog"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8811478155983531229"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-29T09:26:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-06-16T03:29:59.164-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Real Meaning of ‘F Troop’"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background: white; color: #0f1419;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe prime exemplar of McWhiney \u0026amp; McDonald’s\nceltic hypothesis in popular culture is \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EF-Troop\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E. The dramatic dyad\nbetween English and Irish culture found its natural home and classic statement\nin Somerville \u0026amp; Ross’s \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Irish R.M\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E.*—where the local Irish\nget the edge on the Englishman.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0f1419;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn the United States, the dramatic dyad shifts from literature\nto television. But the conflict remains much the same in all its essentials. In\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EF-Troop\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, Sergeant O’Rourke, having an Irish last name, generally outsmarts Captain Parmenter,\nwho has an Anglo-Norman name. The Indian conflict and the American Civil War were\nonly incidental to the plot—the real storyline is O’Rourke’s outsmarting the U.S.\narmy and Parmenter, while remaining loyal, broadly speaking, to American ideals\n(including making money).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0f1419; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThus, the real battle of wits is between the Irish and the\nEnglish—in America—which, in itself, continued the prior established literary tradition.\nOf course, this made more sense to the public at a time when Hollywood’s\nwriters remained connected to (and, generally, supportive of) the Western\nliterary canon.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0f1419; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘The Real Meaning of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“F Troop”,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club \u003C\/b\u003E(May 29, 2023, 9:26 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-real-meaning-of-f-troop.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-real-meaning-of-f-troop.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #0f1419; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E*R.M. is an abbreviation for resident magistrate.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8811478155983531229\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8811478155983531229","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8811478155983531229"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8811478155983531229"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-real-meaning-of-f-troop.html","title":"The Real Meaning of ‘F Troop’"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-6603560748728698671"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-29T08:53:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-29T09:03:03.645-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Ways of the Ancestors"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003EThe [American] Civil War began in 1861, when Confederate artillery batteries opened fire on\nFort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. That same year, “\u003Cb\u003Ein the year of the\nindependence of the Confederate States of America\u003C\/b\u003E,” as the [congregation’s]\ndeed recites, Berith Shalome acquired the land on which its synagogue was\nlocated.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003ECharleston\nwas besieged and shelled by Union forces during the Civil War, and many people\nfled the city, Berith Shalome was the only one of Charleston’s three synagogues\nto keep its doors open during the [American Civil] War, and kosher meat as well as matzo on\nPassover were provided by the Synagogue during this trying period. A full\ncomplement of Berith Shalome’s members served the Confederate cause, and\nseveral Confederate veterans are buried in the congregation’s first cemetery.\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESee\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bsbisynagogue.org\/history\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bsbisynagogue.org\/history\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; (bold added).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth\nBarrett Tillman, ‘The Ways of the Ancestors,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (May 29,\n2023, 8:53 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-ways-of-ancestors.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-ways-of-ancestors.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6603560748728698671\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=6603560748728698671","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6603560748728698671"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6603560748728698671"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/the-ways-of-ancestors.html","title":"The Ways of the Ancestors"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-7196359959025299441"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-24T08:29:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-24T08:53:57.582-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How to Read the Text of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"Document\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003EThe Appointments Clause\nstates: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white; mso-highlight: white;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"1StQuoteTXT\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E[The President] shall nominate, and by\nand with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other\npublic Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other\nOfficers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise\nprovided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by\nLaw vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in\nthe President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. [\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/usconstitution.net\/const.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EU.S.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003EConst\u003C\/span\u003E. art. II,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/usconstitution.net\/const.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E§\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;2, cl. 2\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"Document\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003EThe Appointments Clause\nenumerates, or “provides,” four categories of specific positions: “[1]\nAmbassadors, [2] other public Ministers and [3] Consuls, [and] [4] Judges of\nthe supreme Court.” But that list is not exclusive. The Appointments Clause\nalso generally references “all \u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003Eother\u003C\/i\u003E\nOfficers of the United States.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E This list of positions is\nsubject to two limitations: “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003Ewhose Appointments are not\nherein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"Document\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EThat phrase, “whose Appointments are not herein otherwise\nprovided for,” is, admittedly, a mouthful. We think this phrase tells the\nreader that the appointment of “Officers of the United States” is limited to\nthe processes announced in Article II, Section 2.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EThis sub-clause directs the reader \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eto \u003Cb\u003Escour \u003C\/b\u003Ethe remainder of the\nConstitution for other provisions that provide authority to fill other federal\n“Officers of the United States” positions—by election or by appointment. In\nother words, the Appointments Clause’s “not herein otherwise provided\nfor”-language is not an invitation to search for other constitutional\nprovisions providing authority to create or fill federal offices; rather, this\nlanguage puts the reader on notice that no such constitutional provisions exist\nbeyond the textual bounds of Article II, Section 2. We think any alternative\nreading that leads readers to look for other constitutional mechanisms to fill\n“Officers of the United States” positions is mistaken. The “Officers of the\nUnited States” are only those positions that are filled by Article II, Section\n2 processes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportFootnotes]--\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFrom:\u0026nbsp;Seth Barrett Tillman and\nJosh Blackman, \u003Ci\u003EOffices and Officers of the Constitution\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E, Part III: The Appointments, Impeachment, Commissions,\nand Oath or Affirmation Clauses\u003C\/i\u003E, 62\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003ES. Tex. L. Rev\u003C\/span\u003E. 349, 383\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E–\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E84 (2023) (bold added), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4432164\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4432164\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026gt;.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv id=\"ftn2\" style=\"mso-element: footnote;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;‘How to Read the Text of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause,’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 24, 2023, 8:29 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/how-to-read-text-of-constitutions.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/how-to-read-text-of-constitutions.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7196359959025299441\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=7196359959025299441","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/7196359959025299441"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/7196359959025299441"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/how-to-read-text-of-constitutions.html","title":"How to Read the Text of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-5267443778677755269"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-23T05:10:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-23T05:11:38.848-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Un-Lawful Laws"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003E“If\n[the prince] employs a man, he is immediately afraid that the man will act in\nhis own interest, and so another man is employed to keep a check on the other’s\nselfishness. If one measure is adopted, there are immediate fears of its being\nabused or evaded, and so another measure must be adopted to guard against\nabuses or evasions. All men know where the treasure-chest lies, and so the\nprince is constantly fretting and fidgeting out of anxiety for its security.\nConsequently, the laws have to be made tight ad as they become tighter they\nbecome the very source of disorder. These are what one calls ‘un-Lawful laws.’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E. . . .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003E“Should\nit be said that ‘There is only governance by men, not governance by law,’ my\nreply is that only if there is governance by law can there be governance by\nmen. Since un-Lawful laws fetter men hand and foot, even a man capable of\ngoverning cannot overcome inhibiting restraints and suspicions. When there is\nsomething to be done, men do no more than their share, content themselves with\nthe easiest slapdash methods, and can accomplish nothing that goes beyond a circumscribed\nsphere. If the Law of the early kings were still in effect, there would be\nspirit among men that went beyond the letter of the law. If men were of the\nright kind, all of their intentions could be realized; and even if they were\nnot of this kind, they could not slash deep or do widespread damage, thus\nharming the people instead of benefiting them. Therefore I say that only when\nwe have governance by law can we have governance by men.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EHuang\nTsung-hsi, \u003Ci\u003EWaiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince\u003C\/i\u003E (Wm. Theodore de\nBary trans., New York, Columbia University Press 1993) (1663) 98–99.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth\nBarrett Tillman, ‘Un-Lawful Laws,’ \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003ENew\nReform Club\u003C\/span\u003E (May 23, 2023, 5:10 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/un-lawful-laws.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/un-lawful-laws.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5267443778677755269\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=5267443778677755269","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/5267443778677755269"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/5267443778677755269"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/un-lawful-laws.html","title":"Un-Lawful Laws"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-3396253884692614677"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-21T11:19:00.016-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-21T12:22:29.223-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"   A Comment on Noah A. Rosenblum \u0026 Andrea Scosera Katz’s “Removal Rehashed”"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EProfessors\nRosenblum and Katz wrote:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.65pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOur own attempts\nto reconstruct Fish’s data reveal many cases of officers who were not removed,\nbut simply superseded when the President nominated their replacement. Thus, for\nexample, Fish noted that there were four removals of “Consuls, etc.” under\nPresident Adams. One was presumably Edward Church, Consul General in Portugal,\nwho was \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Edisplaced\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E on July 6, 1797. But Adams does not seem to\nhave removed Church, at least not in the way Bamzai and Prakash use the term in\ntheir Article. Rather, he nominated Thomas Bulkely to succeed Church, and\nChurch in turn was “superseded.” There are many other such examples, involving\nConsuls as well as other officers who, like Consuls, required Senate\nconfirmation. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 7.65pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EFish included such\nremovals in his aggregate counts. But these “removals” do not show an\nindefeasible executive power of removal. They show, at most, that the President\ncould \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Edisplace\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E a duly appointed officer by appointing his\nsuccessor.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E136 \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003EHarv. L. Rev. F\u003C\/span\u003E 404, 421–22 (2023)\n(footnotes omitted) (emphases added), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/harvardlawreview.org\/forum\/vol-136\/removal-rehashed\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/harvardlawreview.org\/forum\/vol-136\/removal-rehashed\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EPerhaps,\nthe two modern authors use of “displace” is coextensive with how Hamilton used “displace”\nin \u003Ci\u003EFederalist No. 77?\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;In \u003Ci\u003EFederalist No. 77\u003C\/i\u003E, Hamilton stated:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIt has been\nmentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation of the\nsenate, in the business of appointments, that it would contribute to the\nstability of the administration. The consent of that body would be necessary to\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Edisplace\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E as well as to appoint. (emphasis added)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis\nunderstanding of Hamilton’s “displace” language, used in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EFederalist No. 77\u003C\/i\u003E, was\nput forward by Justice Story in his \u003Ci\u003ECommentaries on the Constitution\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eand also later supported by Professor Forrest McDonald. \u003Ci\u003ESee, e.g.\u003C\/i\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003EThe\nPuzzle of Hamilton’s \u003C\/i\u003EFederalist \u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ENo.\n77\u003C\/i\u003E, 33 \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003EHarv. J.L. \u0026amp; Pub. Pol’y\u003C\/span\u003E\n149 (2010) (quoting Story and linking to McDonald), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1331664\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1331664\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\n\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EMy regular co-author, Josh Blackman, makes some similar points here:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EJosh Blackman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003EJustice Kagan on Hamilton in Federalist No. 77\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003EReason-Volokh Conspiracy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E (July 1, 2020,\n2:09 PM),\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/07\/01\/justice-kagan-on-hamilton-in-federalist-no-77\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/07\/01\/justice-kagan-on-hamilton-in-federalist-no-77\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EA Comment on Noah A Rosenblum \u0026amp; Andrea Scosera Katz’s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ERemoval Rehashed\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club \u003C\/b\u003E(May 21, 2023, 11:19 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-comment-on-noah-rosenblum-andrea.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-comment-on-noah-rosenblum-andrea.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3396253884692614677\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=3396253884692614677","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3396253884692614677"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3396253884692614677"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-comment-on-noah-rosenblum-andrea.html","title":"   A Comment on Noah A. Rosenblum \u0026 Andrea Scosera Katz’s “Removal Rehashed”"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8496009451527587389"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-21T08:29:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-21T08:29:54.849-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Part II, P.J. O’Rourke Lives Again (at The Spectator)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EI think I have never enjoyed a more\npleasant time [than during the COVID lockdown]. The weather was beautiful, and\nout in the Kent countryside, where I then lived, one could enjoy it to its\nfull. Wildlife was less shy than usual, perhaps a consequence of the\nstate-imposed quietude. Occasionally city dwellers would infest our country\nlanes and I had great pleasure in yelling at them to return to their filthy\ntenements, taking their vile diseases with them.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere was a pleasure, too, in\nthe Ballardian scenes at the local supermarket, as the chavs wheeled out their\nthousands of loo rolls and sacks of pasta. And at the local farm shop, a couple\nof assistants wore plastic bags over their shoes because of a theory then\nprevalent that the virus was heavy, fell to the floor with a kind of awkward clunking\nsound and then got picked up inadvertently by the nearest pair of Nikes. It\nwas, I would concede, a time of government-enforced mass idiocy and I enjoyed\nit immensely. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EFrom: Rod Liddle, ‘Who gets to decide\nwhat is “harmful”?’ \u003Ci\u003EThe Spectator \u003C\/i\u003E(13 May 2023, 9:00 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2023\/05\/wrong-but-not-harmful\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2023\/05\/wrong-but-not-harmful\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;;\n\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman, Part II,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EP.J. O’Rourke Lives\nAgain \u003C\/i\u003E(at \u003Ci\u003EThe Spectator\u003C\/i\u003E), \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (May 21, 2023, 8:29 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/part-ii-pj-orourke-lives-again-at.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/part-ii-pj-orourke-lives-again-at.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8496009451527587389\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8496009451527587389","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8496009451527587389"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8496009451527587389"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/part-ii-pj-orourke-lives-again-at.html","title":"Part II, P.J. O’Rourke Lives Again (at The Spectator)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1465357079555324388"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-16T13:01:00.009-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-23T05:08:08.872-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Distinct Point of View"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIf\n[the prince] employs a man, he is immediately afraid that the man will act in\nhis own interest, and so another man is employed to keep a check on the other’s\nselfishness. If one measure is adopted, there are immediate fears of its being\nabused or evaded, and so another measure must be adopted to guard against\nabuses or evasions. All men know where the treasure-chest lies, and so the\nprince is constantly fretting and fidgeting out of anxiety for its security.\nConsequently, the laws have to be made tight ad as they become tighter they\nbecome the very source of disorder. These are what one calls\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003Eun-Lawful laws.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E. . . .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EShould\nit be said that\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003EThere is only governance by men, not governance by law,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003Emy reply\nis that only if there is governance by law can there be governance by men.\nSince un-Lawful laws fetter men hand and foot, even a man capable of governing\ncannot overcome inhibiting restraints and suspicions. When there is something\nto be done, men do no more than their share, content themselves with the easiest\nslapdash methods, and can accomplish nothing that goes beyond a circumscribed\nsphere. If the Law of the early kings were still in effect, there would be\nspirit among men that went beyond the letter of the law. If men were of the\nright kind, all of their intentions could be realized; and even if they were not\nof this kind, they could not slash deep or do widespread damage, thus harming the\npeople instead of benefiting them. Therefore I say that only when we have\ngovernance by law can we have governance by men.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;\"\u003E”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #fcf4f7;\"\u003EHuang Tsung-hsi, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWaiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the\nPrince\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (Wm. Theodore de Bary trans., New York, Columbia University\nPress 1993) (1663) 98–99.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003EA Distinct Point of View,\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (May 16, 2023, 1:01 PM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-distinct-point-of-view.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-distinct-point-of-view.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1465357079555324388\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=1465357079555324388","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/1465357079555324388"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/1465357079555324388"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/a-distinct-point-of-view.html","title":"A Distinct Point of View"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-3954350674953702850"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-16T03:09:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-16T03:11:25.211-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Are Directors “Officers”?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECompare \u003C\/i\u003EMonroe v. Scofield, 135 F.2d 725, 726 (10th Cir.\n1943) (Huxman, J.) (explaining that “[a] director is an officer of a\ncorporation”), \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=Y\u0026amp;serNum=2007204582\u0026amp;pubNum=162\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=RP\u0026amp;fi=co_pp_sp_162_777\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)#co_pp_sp_162_777\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn re Walt Disney Co. Derivative\nLitig., 907 A.2d 693, 777 n.588 (Del. Ch. 2005)\u003C\/a\u003E (Chandler, C.)\n(referring to “non-director corporate officers”), \u003Ci\u003Eand \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=Y\u0026amp;serNum=1922113030\u0026amp;pubNum=161\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=RP\u0026amp;fi=co_pp_sp_161_741\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)#co_pp_sp_161_741\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBruch v. Nat’l Guar. Credit Corp., 116\nA. 738, 741 (Del. Ch. 1922)\u003C\/a\u003E (Wolcott, C.) (“A director is an officer\nchosen by the stockholders.”), \u003Ci\u003Ewith \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=Y\u0026amp;serNum=1939115906\u0026amp;pubNum=162\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=RP\u0026amp;fi=co_pp_sp_162_382\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)#co_pp_sp_162_382\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJackson v. County Trust Co. of Md., 6\nA.2d 380, 382 (Md. 1939)\u003C\/a\u003E (Sloan, J.) (holding “[a] director is not\nan officer of a corporation”), \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=Y\u0026amp;serNum=2009320983\u0026amp;pubNum=162\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=RP\u0026amp;fi=co_pp_sp_162_46\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)#co_pp_sp_162_46\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn re Walt Disney Co. Derivative\nLitig., 906 A.2d 27, 46 n.38 (Del. 2006)\u003C\/a\u003E (Jacobs, J.) (“To the\nextent [plaintiff’s] argument is advanced against [director] Russell, it also\nis not grounded in fact, because Russell was not an officer of Disney.”). \u003Ci\u003ECompare,\ne.g.\u003C\/i\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=L\u0026amp;pubNum=1000005\u0026amp;cite=DESTT8S211\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=LQ\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDel. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 211\u003C\/a\u003E(b)\n(2008) (providing for the election of directors by stockholders), \u003Ci\u003Ewith\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=L\u0026amp;pubNum=1000005\u0026amp;cite=DESTT8S142\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=LQ\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDel. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 142\u003C\/a\u003E(b)\n(2008) (providing that officers are chosen by the board or as prescribed by the\nby-laws). \u003Ci\u003ESee generally \u003C\/i\u003E18b \u003Cb\u003EAm. Jur. 2d\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Ci\u003EClassification as officer or\nemployee\u003C\/i\u003E § 1171 (2004) (“Directors have, \u003Ci\u003Eat times\u003C\/i\u003E, been regarded as\ncorporate officers . . . .” (emphasis added)); 2 \u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003ECarol A. Jones, Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Private\nCorporations\u003C\/span\u003E § 271, at 35 (perm. ed., rev. vol. 2006) (“[W]hile a\ndirector is ordinarily considered an officer, the director is not always such\nan officer as is contemplated by certain statutes or bylaws.”) (collecting authority);\nA. Gilchrist Sparks, III \u0026amp; Lawrence A. Hamermesh, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intl-westlaw-com.jproxy.nuim.ie\/Link\/Document\/FullText?findType=Y\u0026amp;serNum=0102876901\u0026amp;pubNum=1105\u0026amp;originatingDoc=I5848ec20907911de9b8c850332338889\u0026amp;refType=LR\u0026amp;fi=co_pp_sp_1105_216\u0026amp;originationContext=document\u0026amp;transitionType=DocumentItem\u0026amp;contextData=(sc.Search)#co_pp_sp_1105_216\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003ECommon Law Duties of Non-Director Corporate Officers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, 48 \u003Cb\u003EBus. Law.\u003C\/b\u003E 215, 216 (1992)\u003C\/a\u003E (“Even a director\nis not ordinarily an officer for the corporation.”). \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EAre Directors “Officers”?,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 16, 2023, 3:09 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/are-directors-officers.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/are-directors-officers.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3954350674953702850\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=3954350674953702850","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3954350674953702850"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3954350674953702850"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/are-directors-officers.html","title":"Are Directors “Officers”?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-6839417086097002183"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-12T04:45:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-12T04:46:02.917-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"An “Absurd” View"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d2228;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EDear Professor,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d2228;\"\u003EI noticed that you cite Joseph\nStory in more than a 1\/2 dozen of your publications\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E—\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d2228;\"\u003Eand\nsometimes, you cite Story’s position favorably. For that reason, I have\nattached an extract from: 2 Joseph Story, \u003Ci\u003ECommentaries on the Constitution\nof the United States\u003C\/i\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E§ 791, at 260 (Boston, Hilliard,\nGray, \u0026amp; Co. 1833). You will notice that Story takes the view that the\nConstitution’s “officers \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eof \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003Ethe United States”-language in the\nImpeachment Clause (art. II, S. 4) and, apparently, in the Commissions Clause\n(art. II, S. 3) does not reach the president.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EStory takes a similar view with\nregard to the Constitution’s “Office ... \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Eunder \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003Ethe United States”-language\nin the Incompatibility Clause (art. I, S. 6, cl. 2) and the Elector\nIncompatibility Clause (art. II, S. 1, cl. 2). \u003Ci\u003EId\u003C\/i\u003E. § 791. The Impeachment\nDisqualification Clause (art. I, S. 3, cl. 7) also uses the same “Office ...\nunder the United States”-language. Given the linguistic similarity, I do not\nthink it is a reach to say that Story’s position was that the presidency does\nnot fall under the scope of that clause. Likewise, McKnight—a mid-century\ncommentator—said that: “[I]t is \u003Ci\u003Eobvious\u003C\/i\u003E that . . . the President is not\nregarded as ‘an officer \u003Ci\u003Eof\u003C\/i\u003E, or \u003Ci\u003Eunder\u003C\/i\u003E, the United States,’ but as\none branch of ‘the Government.’” David A. McKnight, \u003Ci\u003EThe Electoral System of\nthe United States\u003C\/i\u003E 346 (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott \u0026amp; Co. 1878)\n(emphases added).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EAs to the normative basis for\nexcluding a disqualified defendant exclusively from appointed federal positions,\nbut not from elected federal positions, that too can be explained:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EThe disqualification clause of punishment was\nevidently put in for the purpose of making the power of removal by impeachment\neffectual. After providing that the officers of the United States might be\nremoved on impeachment, although the President could not pardon the offender\nconvicted and removed, yet if he could reinstate him the next morning he would\nhave substantially the power of pardon. To prevent this was the object of the\ndisqualifying clause; which Story says is not a necessary part of the judgment.\nYou might impose it where you had removed an officer appointed by the President\nwhom the President could reinstate. You could stop that by fixing disability\nupon the officer; and that I take to have been the sole purpose of this clause.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E3 Asher C. Hinds, \u003Ci\u003EHinds’ Precedents\nof the House \u003C\/i\u003E318 (1907) (quoting Mr Carpenter, counsel for Belknap—a\ndefendant in impeachment proceedings before the Senate).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003EI do not suggest that the\nauthorities above conclusively settle the issue. And, I suppose you disagree\nwith my view, with Carpenter’s view, with McKnight’s view, and with Story’s\nview. But is their (and my) view as to the scope of the Impeachment\nDisqualification Clause’s “Office ... under the United States”-language really\nan “absurd” view?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003ESincerely,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003ESeth Tillman\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121; font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAn “Absurd” View\u003C\/i\u003E, \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 12, 2023, 4:45 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/an-absurd-view.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/an-absurd-view.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #212121; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6839417086097002183\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=6839417086097002183","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6839417086097002183"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/6839417086097002183"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/an-absurd-view.html","title":"An “Absurd” View"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-284803012729488918"},"published":{"$t":"2023-05-08T01:27:00.017-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-08T02:24:21.256-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"P.J. O’Rourke Lives Again (at The Spectator)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E“I thought I had forgotten about Diane Abbott, but in fact there has been a Diane-sized hole in my life and I only properly realised this when she came back, gloriously, to fill it again. Hitherto I had been going about my business, writing columns, cooking for my family and so on, and perhaps to other people I seemed to be getting along normally enough\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E—but in truth I was hollow inside, devoid of a sense of purpose. How uplifting it was to see her back in the headlines.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EFrom Rod Liddle, ‘The Delicious Doublethink of Diane Abbott,’ \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/\"\u003EThe Spectator\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;, 29 April 2023, at 15, \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/ive-missed-you-diane-abbott\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/ive-missed-you-diane-abbott\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E------\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003EOn the morning of the 26th, the day after Violeta Chamorro\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003Es victory over Danny Ortega, I walked into the Inter-Continental Hotel in Managua and Bianca Jagger was sitting alone in the lobby. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBianca had been\nubiquitous during the election campaign: There was Bianca looking smart in an\nunreconstructed linen jacket and yellow socks to match, Bianca looking serious\nwith press pass and camera, Bianca looking thoughtful listening to Jimmy\nCarter, Bianca looking concerned conferring with Senator Christopher Dodd,\nBianca looking committed in simple tennis shoes and neatly mussed hair, Bianca\nlooking important wearing sunglasses after dark. But this morning Bianca looked\n... her age. Here we had ... [a] discarded rock-star wife, trapped in the\nlonely hell of the formerly cute\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E—\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eone bummed-out show-biz lefty. I was feeling\ngreat myself, ready to turn somersaults over the Ortega defeat, full of good\ncheer and pleased with all the world. But then the forlorn, sagging little shape\nof Bianca caughy my eye and, all of a sudden, I felt even \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"\u003Ebetter\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003EP.J. O\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ERourke, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003EReturn of the Death of Communism, Nicaragua, 1990,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E’ \u003Ci\u003Ein\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;\"\u003EGive War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Es Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer\u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;\"\u003E55\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;\"\u003E(1992).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E------\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E‘P.J. O’Rourke Lives Again (at \u003Ci\u003EThe Spectator\u003C\/i\u003E),’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(May 8, 2023, 1:27 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/pj-orourke-lives-again-at-spectator.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/pj-orourke-lives-again-at-spectator.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/284803012729488918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=284803012729488918","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/284803012729488918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/284803012729488918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/pj-orourke-lives-again-at-spectator.html","title":"P.J. O’Rourke Lives Again (at The Spectator)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8196649466511714553"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-27T15:06:00.010-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-07T02:33:35.032-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Courtesy (II)"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe rapid approach of Sukkos, so\nclose on the heels of Yom Kippur, took us [a Jewish couple in Taiwan on a Fulbright\nscholarship] by surprise. We had not yet developed a routine for \u003Ci\u003Esukkah-\u003C\/i\u003Ebuilding\nand now we were confronted with the realization that we had only a few days for\nour construction project. Fortunately, there was no shortage of materials since\nan abundant supply of bamboo poles was available, and I immediately began to\nerect the frame for the \u003Ci\u003Esukkah\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EEach day as I worked on the structure,\nChinese passerby would stop to watch, scratch their heads and move on. As the \u003Ci\u003Esukkah\n\u003C\/i\u003Egrew more complete, the number of onlookers increased. I constructed a roof\nof small bamboo branches and leaves, making sure that there was enough open\nspace among them to see the stars at night. On \u003Ci\u003Eerev \u003C\/i\u003ESukkos I moved the\nkitchen table and chairs outside and set them up in the bamboo shack. Devorah [the\ncouple’s daughter] helped with the decorations and, like Jewish children the\nworld over, had a great time tying fruit to the overhanging limbs.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EAbout an hour before candlelighting [time]\nand the onset of the festival, Mei-Mei [the family’s Chinese housekeeper]\ninformed us that we had a visitor. A very serious looking university official\nwas waiting at the front door. After exchanging \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ecourtesies\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E, the\nofficial stated that he had been sent by the Dean of Studies who wished to know\nwhat aspects of our assigned accommodations displeased us. The university would\ndo everything in its power, he said, to oblige us.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EWe stared at the official in\nconfusion. Several times we had expressed our gratitude to our [academic] hosts\nfor the truly delightful accommodations. How could they possibly have gotten\nthe impression that we were dissatisfied? We assured our visitor that the\ncottage was ideal and that we were very pleased and appreciative. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ENow it was the official’s turn to\nlook perplexed. “If that is the case,” he stammered, “why are you moving out of\nthis house and building a new one outside?”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EMei-Mei, as usual, was listening\nfrom the wings. Before we could reply, she inserted herself into the\nconversation and calmly explained. “Tomorrow is the fifteenth day of [the]\neighth lunar month. Chinese celebrate mid-autumn Moon Festival. Chinese eat mooncakes and walk in the light of the moon. [Mr and Mrs Schwartzbaum] are \u003Ci\u003Eyoh-tai-ren\u003C\/i\u003E.\nThey celebrate festival by eating and living outside, like old Chinese saying ‘to\nwear moon on your head and use stars as your cloak’.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E“Oh, now I understand,” the official\nsaid with a smile. “I did not realize that our customs were so similar! \u003Ci\u003EGung\nHsi! Gung Hsi!\u003C\/i\u003E”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E“\u003Ci\u003EChag sameach!\u003C\/i\u003E” we replied.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003EAbraham Schwartzbaum, The Bamboo Cradle: A Jewish\nFather’s Story \u003C\/span\u003E120–21\n(2d ed. 1989) (emphasis added).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESeth\nBarrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E‘\u003Cspan\u003ECourtesy (II),\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-caps: small-caps;\"\u003E’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (Apr. 27, 2023, 3:06 PM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/courtesy-ii.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/courtesy-ii.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8196649466511714553\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8196649466511714553","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8196649466511714553"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8196649466511714553"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/courtesy-ii.html","title":"Courtesy (II)"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-3627586012408353993"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-26T07:37:00.021-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-07T02:33:13.295-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Courtesy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003EThree\nKingdoms\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EChapter\n120: Courtesy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOne\nday [General] Yang Hu* [of the Sima-Jin Dynasty] and his officers went out to\nhunt, and it happened that [General] Lu Kang** [of the Sun-Wu Dynasty] had chosen\nthe same day to hunt. Yang Hu gave strict orders not to cross the boundary\n[between the two armies], and so each hunted only on his own side. Lu Kang was\nastonished at the enemy’s scrupulous propriety. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EHe\nsighed, “The soldiers of Yang Hu have so high a discipline that I may not make\nany invasion now.” \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn\nthe evening, after both parties had returned, Yang Hu ordered an inspection of\nthe slaughtered game and sent over to the other side any that seemed to have been\nfirst struck by the soldiers of Wu. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ELu\nKang was greatly pleased and sent for the bearers of the game.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“Does\nyour leader drink wine?” asked he. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThey\nreplied, “Only fine wines does he drink.” \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“I\nhave some very old wine,” replied Lu Kang, smiling, “and I will give of it to\nyou to bear to your general as a gift. It is the wine I myself brew and drink\non ceremonial occasions, and he shall have half in return for today’s courtesy.”\n\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThey\ntook the wine and left. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“Why\ndo you give him wine?” asked Lu Kang’s officers. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“\u003Ci\u003EBecause he has shown kindness, and I must return courtesy\nfor courtesy.\u003C\/i\u003E” \u003Ci\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhen\nthe gift of wine arrived and the bearers told Yang Hu the story of their\nreception, he laughed. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“So\nhe knows I can drink,” said Yang Hu. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHe\nhad the jar opened, and the wine was poured out. One of his\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Egenerals,\nChen Yuan, begged him to drink moderately lest there should be some harm come\nof it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“Lu\nKang is no poisoner,” replied Yang Hu. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnd\nhe drank. The friendly intercourse thus continued, and messengers frequently passed\nfrom one camp to the other. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOne\nday the messengers said that Lu Kang was unwell and had been ailing for several\ndays. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“I\nthink he suffers from the same complaint as I,” said Yang Hu. “I have some remedies\nready prepared and will send him some.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\ndrugs were taken over to the Wu camp. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut\nthe sick man’s officers were suspicious and said, “This medicine is surely\nharmful: It comes from the enemy.” \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EHowever,\nLu Kang said, “No; old Uncle Yang Hu would not poison a person. Do not doubt.” \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EHe\ndrank the decoction. Next day he was much better.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhen\nhis staff came to congratulate him, he said, “If our opponents take their stand\nupon virtue and we take ours upon violence, they will drag us after them\nwithout fighting. See to it that the boundaries be well kept and that we seek\nnot to gain any unfair advantage.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: #fcf4f7; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELuo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(translated\u0026nbsp;Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, 1925) (first printed version circa 1522).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: #fcf4f7; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘Courtesy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E,’\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Apr. 26, 2023, 7:37 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yssf4eae\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yssf4eae\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: #fcf4f7; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E*Yang Hu (courtesy name: Shuzi) was the Marquis of Juping. Sima Yan offered him a dukedom, but he turned it down. I suppose the reason he turned it down was that had he accepted he would have had to give up his military field command.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: #fcf4f7; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E**Lu Kang (courtesy name: Youjie) was Lu Xun\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-indent: 48px;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003Es (courtesy name: Boyan) son. General Lu Xun defeated\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E(Shu-Han)\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003EEmperor Liu Bei (courtesy name: Xuande) at the Battle of Yiling and Xiaoting Hill circa 221\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E–\u003C\/span\u003E222 CE. Lu Xun served\u0026nbsp;(Wu)\u0026nbsp;Emperor Sun Quan (courtesy name: Zhongmou). And Lu Kang served Sun Quan\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003Es grandson (Wu) Emperor Sun Hua (courtesy name: Yuanzong). Sun Hua was the fourth and last emperor of Wu. The conquest of Wu by (Jin) Emperor Sima Yan (\u003C\/span\u003Ecourtesy name: Anshi) circa 280 CE marked the end of the Three Kingdoms period. As the nameless poet proclaimed:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-indent: 48px;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003EAll down the ages rings the note of change,\u0026nbsp;For fate so rules it; none escapes its sway.\u0026nbsp;The three kingdoms have vanished as a dream,\u0026nbsp;The useless misery is ours to grieve.\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-indent: 48px;\"\u003E”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3627586012408353993\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=3627586012408353993","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3627586012408353993"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3627586012408353993"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/courtesy.html","title":"Courtesy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-578684751122996596"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-18T12:03:00.011-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-07T02:34:39.219-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Biblical Injunction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELeviticus 22:28\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #202122;\"\u003EBut you shall not slaughter, from the herd or the flock, an animal with its young on the same day.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERomance of the Three Kingdoms\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EChapter 91\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;When he was about fifteen, Cao Rui, who was an expert archer and a daring rider, accompanied his father to the hunt. In a gully they started [startled?] a doe and its fawn. [Emperor] Cao Pi shot the doe, while the fawn fled. Seeing that the fawn’s course led past his son’s horse, Cao Pi called out to him to shoot it. Instead the youth bursts into tears.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;“Your Majesty has slain the mother. How can one kill the child as well?”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; The words struck the Emperor with remorse. He threw aside his bow, saying, “My son, you would make a benevolent and virtuous ruler.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;From this circumstance Cao Pi decided that Cao Rui should succeed, and conferred upon him the princedom of Pingyuan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EA Biblical Injunction\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Apr. 18, 2023, 12:03 PM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/a-biblical-injunction.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/a-biblical-injunction.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/578684751122996596\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=578684751122996596","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/578684751122996596"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/578684751122996596"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/a-biblical-injunction.html","title":"A Biblical Injunction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8709627869983693538"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-16T17:01:00.014-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-05-07T02:35:09.510-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Understanding Patriotism"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERomance\nof the Three Kingdoms\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EChapter\n106\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“I\nfeared lest I should not see you again,” said the Ruler of Wei [Emperor Cao\nRui]. “But now I can die content.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\ngeneral [Sima Yi] bowed and said, “On the road they told me the sacred person\nwas not perfectly well. I grieved that I had not wings to hasten hither. But I\nam happy in that I now behold the dragon countenance.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nheir, Cao Fang, was summoned to the Emperor’s bedside and also Cao Shuang, Liu\nFang, Sun Zu, and certain others.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ETaking\nSima Yi by the hand, the dying Emperor [Cao Rui] said, “When Liu Bei [Emperor\nof Shu-Han] lay dying at Baidicheng [castle], he confided his son, so soon to\nbe an orphan, to the care of [prime minister] Zhuge Liang, who labored in this\ntask to the very end and whose devotion only ceased with [his own, that is, Zhuge Liang’s] death.\nIf such conduct is possible in the mere remnant of a dying dynasty continued in\na small state [Shu-Han], how much more may I hope for it in a great country\n[Cao-Wei]! My son [Cao Fang] is only eight years of age, and incapable of\nsustaining the burden of rulership. Happily for him he has ample merit and\nexperience around him in the persons of yourself and his relatives. He will\nnever lack friends for my sake.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ETurning\nto the young prince [Cao Fang], he continued, “My friend Sima Yi is as myself,\nand you are to treat him with the same respect and deference.”\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ECao\nRui bade Sima Yi lead the young prince forward. The boy threw his arms around\nSima Yi’s neck and clung to him.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“Never\nforget the affection he has just shown,” said Cao Rui, weeping. And Sima Yi\nwept also.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELuo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;(translated\u0026nbsp;Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, 1925) (first printed version circa 1522).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E-------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ETillman’s\ncommentary: Why is this scene affecting? Because at the end of his life, the ruler\nof Wei took a lesson in governance from Shu-Han. Shu-Han was Wei’s great enemy,\nbut it was an enemy within a shared language, culture, and civilization. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003EUnderstanding Patriotism\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (Apr. 16, 2023, 5:01 PM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/understanding-patriotism.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/understanding-patriotism.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8709627869983693538\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=8709627869983693538","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8709627869983693538"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/8709627869983693538"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/understanding-patriotism.html","title":"Understanding Patriotism"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-2541084270358341551"},"published":{"$t":"2023-04-03T06:54:00.017-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-04-03T07:08:37.391-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jeffrey Blehar and the Problem at National Review "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EJeffrey\nBlehar, writing on \u003Ci\u003ENational Review\u003C\/i\u003E’s\u003Ci\u003E The Corner\u003C\/i\u003E, wrote: “Everyone\nknows by now that Donald Trump slept with Stormy Daniels and then paid her hush\nmoney when she threatened to go public, using his attorney Michael Cohen as a\ncut-out.” Jeffrey Blehar,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003EOf Course It’s Political\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003ENational Review\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003EThe Corner\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E (April 1, 2023, 6:30 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/of-course-its-political\" style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/of-course-its-political\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EActually,\nwe do not know that Trump slept with Daniels. Only Trump and Daniels would\nknow. There are no photographs or videos—something Daniels might know about. Nor\nhas Daniels produced any physical evidence supporting her allegations. We just\nhave her word for it. What we do know is, and it has been long reported, that Trump\nis a notorious germaphobe—a fact which cuts strongly against Daniels’ claims. Would\na notorious germaphobe sleep with Daniels? \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nfact that some at \u003Ci\u003ENational Review \u003C\/i\u003Edislike Trump is not surprising. The\nfact that some at \u003Ci\u003ENational Review\u003C\/i\u003E take Daniels’ claims at face value\nabsent concrete physical evidence is also not surprising. But the fact that the\neditors at \u003Ci\u003EThe Corner\u003C\/i\u003E published Blehar’s assertions as an undoubted\ntruth which “everyone knows” only shows that—all too many at \u003Ci\u003ENational Review\u003C\/i\u003E\nare willing to destroy their publication’s institutional good will. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAnd\nwhy would they do that? It is virtue signaling. By demonstrating that they are oblivious\nto the actual evidence at hand (and the lack thereof), by putting reason and\nfair-play aside, they illustrate the same primal unreasoned hatreds about which\nthe American right would usually castigate the left. And here they do it to prove\ntheir worth to the beautiful people. The sad truth is…the \u003Ci\u003ENational\u003C\/i\u003E-\u003Ci\u003EReview\u003C\/i\u003E-types\ncould never convince the beautiful people\u003C\/span\u003E—\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003Eno matter how hard they try to do so.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003EJeffrey Blehar and the Problem at \u003Ci\u003ENational Review\u003C\/i\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E’\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Apr. 3, 2023, 6:54 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/jeffrey-blehar-and-problem-at-national.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/jeffrey-blehar-and-problem-at-national.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt;\"\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2541084270358341551\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=2541084270358341551","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/2541084270358341551"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/2541084270358341551"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/jeffrey-blehar-and-problem-at-national.html","title":"Jeffrey Blehar and the Problem at National Review "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-3893512969772357377"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-31T07:24:00.012-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-31T11:01:21.972-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Something No One Is Talking About Today"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ERobert\nH. Jackson, ‘The Federal Prosecutor,’ 24 J. Am. Jud. Soc’y 18 (1940), 31 J.\nCrim. L. 3 (1940) (address at Conference of United States Attorneys,\nWashington, D.C., Apr. 1, 1940), \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/roberthjackson.org\/speech-and-writing\/the-federal-prosecutor\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/roberthjackson.org\/speech-and-writing\/the-federal-prosecutor\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;,\n\u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthjackson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The_Federal_Prosecutor.pdf\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.roberthjackson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/The_Federal_Prosecutor.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EJackson’s\nspeech as reported on \u003Ci\u003EThe Robert H. Jackson Center \u003C\/i\u003Ewebsite: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nqualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as\nthose which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not\nunderstand it anyway.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIt\nwould probably be within the range of that exaggeration permitted in Washington\nto say that assembled in this room is one of the most powerful peace-time\nforces known to our country. The prosecutor has more control over life,\nliberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is\ntremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of\nperson, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or\nunveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and\nsimply have a citizen’s friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests,\npresent cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his\none-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and\nheld for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense\nnever has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he\nobtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to\nsentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended\nsentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for\nparole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces\nin our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of\nthe worst.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThese\npowers have been granted to our law-enforcement agencies because it seems\nnecessary that such a power to prosecute be lodged somewhere. This authority\nhas been granted by people who really wanted the right thing done\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E—\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003Ewanted crime\neliminated\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E—\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003Ebut also wanted the best in our American traditions preserved.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EBecause\nof this immense power to strike at citizens, not with mere individual strength,\nbut with all the force of government itself, the post of federal district\nattorney from the very beginning has been safeguarded by presidential\nappointment, requiring confirmation of the senate of the United States. You are\nthus required to win an expression of confidence in your character by both the\nlegislative and the executive branches of the government before assuming the\nresponsibilities of a federal prosecutor.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EYour\nresponsibility in your several districts for law enforcement and for its\nmethods cannot be wholly surrendered to Washington, and ought not to be assumed\nby a centralized department of justice. It is an unusual and rare instance in\nwhich the local district attorney should be superseded in the handling of\nlitigation, except where be requests help of Washington. It is also clear that with\nhis knowledge of local sentiment and opinion, his contact with and intimate\nknowledge of the views of the court, and his acquaintance with the feelings of\nthe group from which jurors are drawn, it is an unusual case in which his\njudgment should be overruled.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EExperience,\nhowever, has demonstrated that some measure of centralized control is\nnecessary. In the absence of it different district attorneys were striving for\ndifferent interpretations or applications of an act, or were pursuing different\nconceptions of policy. Also, to put it mildly, there were differences in the\ndegree of diligence and zeal in different districts. To promote uniformity of\npolicy and action, to establish some standards of performance, and to make\navailable specialized help, some degree of centralized administration was found\nnecessary.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EOur\nproblem, of course, is to balance these opposing considerations. I desire to\navoid any lessening of the prestige and influence of the district attorneys in\ntheir districts. At the same time we must proceed in all districts with that\nuniformity of policy which is necessary to the prestige of federal law.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ENothing\nbetter can come out of this meeting of law enforcement officers than a\nrededication to the spirit of fair play and decency that should animate the\nfederal prosecutor. Your positions are of such independence and importance that\nwhile you are being diligent, strict, and vigorous in law enforcement you can\nalso afford to be just. Although the government technically loses its case, it\nhas really won if justice has been done. The lawyer in public office is\njustified in seeking to leave behind him a good record. But he must remember\nthat his most alert and severe, but just, judges will be the members of his own\nprofession, and that lawyers rest their good opinion of each other not merely\non results accomplished but on the quality of the performance. Reputation has\nbeen called ‘the shadow cast by one’s daily life.’ Any prosecutor who risks his\nday-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics of success\nhas a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character.\nWhether one seeks promotion to a. judgeship, as many prosecutors rightly do, or\nwhether he returns to private practice, he can have no better asset than to\nhave his profession recognize that his attitude toward those who feel his power\nhas been dispassionate, reasonable and just.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nfederal prosecutor has now been prohibited from engaging in political\nactivities. I am convinced that a good-faith acceptance of the spirit and\nletter of that doctrine will relieve many district attorneys from the\nembarrassment of what have heretofore been regarded as legitimate expectations\nof political service. There can also be no doubt that to be closely identified\nwith the intrigue, the money raising, and the machinery of a particular party\nor faction may present a prosecuting officer with embarrassing alignments and\nassociations. I think the Hatch Act should be utilized by federal prosecutors\nas a protection against demands on their time and their prestige to participate\nin the operation of the machinery of practical politics.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere\nis a most important reason why the prosecutor should have, as nearly as\npossible, a detached and impartial view of all groups in his community. Law\nenforcement is not automatic. It isn’t blind. One of the greatest difficulties\nof the position of prosecutor is that he must pick his cases, because no\nprosecutor can even investigate all of the eases in which he receives\ncomplaints. If the department of justice were to make even a pretense of\nreaching every probable violation of federal law, ten times its present staff\nwould be inadequate. We know that no local police force can strictly enforce\nthe traffic laws, or it would arrest half the driving population on any given\nmorning, What every prosecutor is practically required to do is to select the\ncases for prosecution and to select those in which the offense is the most\nflagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIf\nthe prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose\nhis defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he\nwill pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need\nto be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes,\na prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of\nsome act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of\ndiscovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has\ncommitted it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books,\nor putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this\nrealm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 13pt; text-align: left;\"\u003E—\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: large;\"\u003Ein which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to\nembarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an\noffense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is\nhere that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of\nbeing unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the\nwrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the\nprosecutor himself.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn\ntimes of fear or hysteria· political, racial, religious, social, and economic\ngroups, often from the best of motives, cry for the scalps of individuals or\ngroups because they do not like their views. Particularly do we need to be\ndispassionate and courageous in those cases which deal with so called ‘subversive\nactivities.’ They are dangerous to civil liberty because the prosecutor has no\ndefinite standards to determine what constitutes a ‘subversive activity,’ such\nas we have for murder or larceny. Activities which seem benevolent and helpful\nto wage earners, persons on relief, or those who are disadvantaged in the\nstruggle for existence may be regarded as ‘subversive’ by those whose property\ninterests might be burdened or affected thereby. Those who are in office are\napt to regard as ‘subversive’ the activities of any of those who would bring\nabout a change of administration. Some of our soundest constitutional doctrines\nwere once punished as subversive. We must not forget that it was not so long\nago that both the term ‘Republican’ and the term ‘Democrat’ were epithets with\nsinister meaning to denote persons of radical tendencies that were ‘subversive’\nof the order of things then dominant.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn\nthe enforcement of laws that protect our national integrity and existence, we\nshould prosecute any and every act of violation, but only overt acts, not the\nexpression of opinion, or activities such as the holding of meetings,\npetitioning of congress, or dissemination of news or opinions. Only by extreme\ncare can we protect the spirit as well as the letter of our civil liberties,\nand to do so is a responsibility of the federal prosecutor.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EAnother\ndelicate task is to distinguish between the federal and the local in\nlaw-enforcement activities. We must bear in mind that we are concerned only\nwith the prosecution of acts which the congress has made federal offenses.\nThose acts we should prosecute regardless of local sentiment, regardless of\nwhether it exposes lax local enforcement, regardless of whether it makes or\nbreaks local politicians.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EBut\noutside of federal law each locality has the right under our system of\ngovernment to fix its own standards of law enforcement and of morals. And the\nmoral climate of the United States is as varied as its physical climate. For\nexample, some states legalize and permit gambling, some states prohibit it\nlegislatively and protect it administratively, and some try to prohibit it\nentirely. The same variation of attitudes towards other law-enforcement\nproblems exists. The federal government could not enforce one kind of law in\none place and another kind elsewhere. It could hardly adopt strict standards\nfor loose states or loose standards for strict states without doing violence to\nlocal sentiment. In spite of the temptation to divert our power to local\nconditions where they have become offensive to our sense of decency, the only\nlong-term policy that will save federal justice from being discredited by\nentanglements with local politics is that it confine itself to strict and\nimpartial enforcement of federal law, letting the chips fall in the community\nwhere they may. Just as there should be no permitting of local considerations\nto stop federal enforcement, so there should be no striving to enlarge our\npower over local affairs and no use of federal prosecutions to exert an\nindirect influence that would be unlawful if exerted directly.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe\nqualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as\nthose which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not\nunderstand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps\nthe best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies\nin the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not\nvictims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his\ntask with humility.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E[END]\n\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman, ‘Something No One Is Talking About Today,’\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Mar. 31, 2023, 7:24 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/something-no-one-is-talking-about-today.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/something-no-one-is-talking-about-today.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3893512969772357377\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=3893512969772357377","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3893512969772357377"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3893512969772357377"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/something-no-one-is-talking-about-today.html","title":"Something No One Is Talking About Today"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-3206924350211673476"},"published":{"$t":"2023-03-20T07:50:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2023-03-20T08:43:48.945-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seth Barrett Tillman Posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The First Time They Dropped the (Old) Standardized Test Requirement"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E“I\nsay that the old style of written examination on the meaning of the classics\nshould be restored, so that a proper answer is put forth by writing out\nthe early and later commentaries and those in official state records. After\nlisting one by one what is said by the various early and later commentators,\nthe candidate should conclude with his own opinion—there being no necessity for\nblind acceptance of one authority’s word. Through the first part, those who are\nignorant will be failed; and through the second part, those who show themselves\ndull [or servile] in reasoning [will be failed]. This is the way to correct\nsuperficiality [which is what is measured by the current examination process].\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E“Some\nmay say that the suggested style for written examinations [emphasizing\nclassical commentators] was considered of lesser consequence in the later\nclassical period because its criterion was seen as [mere] skill in memorization.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECould we now,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;they might say,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eesteem what the examiners in that [enlightened] period\nlooked down upon?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #1d1b11; text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;In reply to this, I ask if anyone writes today’s examinations\nanswers without memorizing other examination essays [and model answers]? It is a\nquestion of memorizing in either case, and obviously, it is better to memorize\nthe learned ideas of the classical commentators, than the second hand drivel of\ntoday[’s] [model examinations and model answers]. . . . [A]t least [under the\nold examination system], one had to reason carefully and write . . . [well]. It\nwas nothing like the present examination essays, which can be written by any\nignorant person.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003EHuang\nTsung-hsi, \u003Ci\u003EWaiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince\u003C\/i\u003E (Wm. Theodore de\nBary trans., New York, Columbia University Press 1993) (1663).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E‘\u003C\/span\u003EThe First Time They Dropped the (Old) Standardized Test Requirement,\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E’\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club \u003C\/b\u003E(Mar. 20, 2023, 7:50 AM), \u0026lt;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-first-time-they-dropped-old.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-first-time-they-dropped-old.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026gt;;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: times; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Esee also\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"7g793-0-0\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003ESeth Barrett Tillman, ‘1663 and 1789,’ \u003Cb\u003ENew Reform Club\u003C\/b\u003E (Mar. 10, 2023, 7:34 AM), \u0026lt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d9bf0; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"7g793-1-0\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/1663-and-1789.html\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/1663-and-1789.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"7g793-2-0\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #0f1419; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003E\u0026gt;; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3206924350211673476\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=8776899\u0026postID=3206924350211673476","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3206924350211673476"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8776899\/posts\/default\/3206924350211673476"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.com\/2023\/03\/the-first-time-they-dropped-old.html","title":"The First Time They Dropped the (Old) Standardized Test Requirement"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Seth Barrett Tillman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15597182448693278803"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});