I still don’t get the politics of this. Say that you hope the president nominates a qualified candidate who is committed to interpreting the constitution according to its original meaning, and to interpreting statutes in accordance with the new wave of textualism that Scalia championed. Then, when Obama nominates…

“Liang’s conviction appears colored by the non-indictment of (and consequent outcry surrounding) officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner on Staten Island in 2014"

Maybe because the leadership of Flint is Democratic. Or because the emergency manager of Flint was a Democrat. Or because Flint, run by Democrats, has no money to fix the problem. Or because regulatory agencies failed to protect the people of Flint. Maybe a widespread governmental failure makes people more skeptical…

That’s the kind of thinking that creates bad precedents that you come to regret a number of years down the line.

My only thought is that maybe she’s criticizing the idea that we should ban legal Muslim immigrants, saying that banning an entire race or religion from immigrating is unprecedented in American history. Which is incorrect (Chinese exclusion act) but at least her heart would be in the right place

I guess 8 years with a democratic president has made people forget what happens when a president you don’t like (or a Dick Cheney) can simply take executive action in direct opposition to congress by using his “pen and phone.”

I'm really, really uncomfortable by the idea that you can be sued for denying that you committed a crime. I was really hoping this suit would be dropped when Cosby was criminally charged. Guess not

If we’re gonna use the Trayvon shooting to condemn the killings of people of color, we have to get the facts right. It makes us look bad to be consistently wrong. Zimmerman’s defense was a standard self-defense, not stand your ground. Stand your ground means you have no duty to retreat in a place where you have a…

For years my mom had me convinced that if you peed in the pool, the water would turn purple. I held out for years, but one day I just couldn’t hold it in. I then triumphantly told her, “You lied!” Somehow, she immediately knew of my foul deed

It might also be that he doesn’t sue the other women because then he'd be deposed about their allegegations. Maybe he figures that because he's going to be deposed by the women suing him, he might as well sue them back

That’s....not even close to the argument he was making. You should at least make an effort to understand what opponents of affirmative action think. The argument goes something like this: