‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal (2022)
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Is the Rule of Law a Real Thing?
Aalido: There's clearly lots of decisions by the court that were both precedent and terrible and wrongly decided. The question just becomes, like, then we're at this profound level of, like, which gets the heart,. i think, of your book - is the rule of law a real thing, or is it not? Is it all just legal realism all the way down? Which is essentially its all politics in every single direction. Argumentation means nothing. Precedent means nothing. All of this is willed to power, cloaked and all ther fancy language," he says. "I have looked at the law from the perspective of a person that the law was designed
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