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Robert Black
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · Jun 3
I have an announcement!!

Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!

This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law

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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!
Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional! As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 38m
Comes up in constitutional law/history because the Federalists used this fact to claim that the Sedition Act, which *did* allow truth as a defense, was therefore a liberalization of federal libel laws

Jeffersonians countered that there WERE no federal libel laws before the Act...

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12h
Mets set an all time record last year for most pitchers used in a single season

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13h
On the one hand we gave up very little

On the other hand we got absolutely nothing back 🤷‍♂️

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13h
When Taylor was out this year, you noticed that none of our outfielders could throw the ball with any force whatsoever. Felt really exploitable.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13h
Seems other than ideal!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13h
Wait this person is employed by the Pentagon??

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
100% of the reason anybody knows his name is that he explicitly loves war crimes! He is pro-war crime as a matter of (what passes for) philosophy!

It's so bad!!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Taylor was controlled through arbitration. The headline you saw was that they agreed on a contract to avoid arbitration.

Would be nice if he could not be the starting CF (unless they like, resign Pete AND trade for Tatis or something), but he's a great fourth outfielder

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah it's less scapegoat and more fall guy

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah, that would work!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Smith is coming off TJ, right? Easy to see him taking a minor league contract with the Mets for next year

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
I plead... insanity??

"Sir, you are the Secretary of Defense"

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Be cool if we got Diaz *and* Rogers back huh

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Sister, surely?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
That said, the small fish are welcome to turn state's evidence in exchange for leniency

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
The buck stops with joint and several liability for murder

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
They largely understood the second sentence as imposing on the states burdens that already applied to the federal government (e.g. the Bill of Rights)

It only really comes apart at all with the EPC

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Then he should say that

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
That said, it's 100% true that it's a disgraceful lack of honor for leadership to hang their subordinates out to dry here

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
Correct. No parties covering themselves in glory here.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
I still don't like the part where he lies about impeachment procedures

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
See also the fundraising emails full of obvious lies about how "we're falling short of our goal" or whatever

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
There isn't a period until the third to last line, it's wild

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
That's 80% of the way through the paragraph!

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
The reputational damage, in fact, was worse if the thing was true

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
At common law, truth was not a defense to libel

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h
I gotta say, set everything else aside, I don't enjoy having a party leader who tells obvious lies to my face

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15h
I would prefer to have too many great relievers than not enough

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15h
Really really hoping we still get Diaz back

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15h
Fun fact: this is only two sentences, somehow