(2) ensuring mechanisms of community control, democratic accountability, and legal vindication for *every violation of the law* by powerful people or institutions without immunities or other procedural technicalities that now make it hard to have civil rights cases adjudicated on their merits.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
(2) ensuring mechanisms of community control, democratic accountability, and legal vindication for *every violation of the law* by powerful people or institutions without immunities or other procedural technicalities that now make it hard to have civil rights cases adjudicated on their merits.
The current state of the Democratic Party is failing miserably at the former, and our legal system has shown itself to lack the rigor, capacity, and integrity to ensure the latter.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The current state of the Democratic Party is failing miserably at the former, and our legal system has shown itself to lack the rigor, capacity, and integrity to ensure the latter.
The only coherent positions are (1) to reduce the size and power of these institutions--used by ruling class elites across the world to protect inequalities of many kinds--and (2) to enforce robust mechanisms for accountable vindication of basic human rights.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The only coherent positions are (1) to reduce the size and power of these institutions--used by ruling class elites across the world to protect inequalities of many kinds--and (2) to enforce robust mechanisms for accountable vindication of basic human rights.
It's quite similar to the Democratic party and liberal punditry's approach to body cameras, which I wrote about at length last year: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-.... "Training" rhetoric is an even more stark example of effective counterinsurgency propaganda.
It's quite similar to the Democratic party and liberal punditry's approach to body cameras, which I wrote about at length last year: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-.... "Training" rhetoric is an even more stark example of effective counterinsurgency propaganda.