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To: Doo who wrote (466423)	1/27/2021 6:24:31 PM
From: neolib	1 Recommendation Recommended By koan Respond to of 540863

The other big issue I see with the legal system is that it venerates antiquity. Imagine if physics venerated the Greeks and Romans as much as the legal system does. Or for that matter if it venerated contemporaries of the US Constitution the way our legal system does? You could try to make an argument that old civilizations were much more advanced in their thinking of legal matters than they were in their understanding of the physical universe, but I think that is a big stretch quite frankly.

To: Doo who wrote (466423)	1/27/2021 6:37:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540863

From what I can gather you and I are about the same age. I will be 80 this year, so no spring chicken-lol. And although I am not a lawyer, I am surrounded by them including an ex wife and daughter who went to Berkeley and Loyola. I was involved in Democratic politics for 40 years in Alaska and actually wrote and passed lots of legislation as the State Director of two major divisions and was special council to one governor overseeing the Valdez oil spill for Health and Social Services. I also helped four governors get elected and many legislators and ran for the state house myself in a red district. I had to engage in blood in the street fights with the Republicans for all that time, so I know their tactics well. I was also a part of the "Ad Hoc" Democrats in the 70's that took over the House of representatives and managed to force the fucking Republicans to save some of the oil money for the kids by putting the Alaskan Permanent fund into the constitution that would put 50% of the oil money in a sovereign wealth fund that now has 100 billion dollars in it and pays for nearly all state needs and makes Alaska more secure than any state. Liberal democrats did that. The Republicans fought like hell against it, as they were mostly in bed with the oil companies and wanted low taxes for them and felt the Permanent fund would lead to higher taxes. But we were basically a bunch of young well educated hippies and we were fearless. As we controlled the House and the budget we told them if they didn't go along with us, we would shut everything down. We got 25%. My point is that I know the law in its political terms and while the Democrats, by and large, really try to do good law, the Republicans simply don't give a shit and the last 20 years should make that very clear. To the democrats intelligent law is what matters, and it is obvious the Republicans don't feel this way by the large number of recent federal appointments that didn't even meet the ABA requirements and didn't get approval. All Mitch was looking for was young healthy right wingers with a law degree. And I am sure if he could have gotten away with no law degree that would have been fine with him (cracked myself up with that one)-lol!! PS google Alaskan Ad Hoc democrats. We were a trip. cheers