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Affirmative Action on the Chopping Block

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Why Do They Want to Get Rid of the Government?

I'm just really struck by the ways in which your book is pushing back on the idea that every bureaucrat in every public servant is a hack. That they're all just pencil pushers and trying to apply the complexity of life to some law that's unerringly wrong and bad. I hear that critique coming from the court itself in ways that make it really hard for people who are just government workers, as you say people who got into this to do service to be taken seriously. And again, we have to ask ourselves, why do they want to get rid of these programs? Well, you know, it's because having a representative democracy is not in the interest of a minority

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