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McCleskey v. Kemp ft. Josie Duffy Rice

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Are You Playing Jenga With the Social Hierarchies?

There's another thing that I think is so crucial in some of these cases, which is a pragmatism basically of the court. The courts are not actually supposed to take into account how difficult it would be to implement this law necessarily or whatever. They're deeply concerned about sort of playing Jenga with the social hierarchy, right? Yeah. This shit is so deep in conservative psychology,. It's fundamental to the protection and justification of the status quo. If your political project is the ongoing defense of existing social and political hierarchies, then you can't concede there are deep structural flaws within those hierarchies.

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