Sadly, it no longer surprises me when a @JVLast column is indistinguishable from any generic progressive pundit, complete with intellectual short cuts around grappling seriously with opposing argumentshttps://thebulwark.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-the-coming-political-crisis/ …
Many of my examples involve lame duck sessions - Adams, Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Coolidge.
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Lame duck sessions have *always* been bizarre, undemocratic exercises—why should legislators voted out of office continue to exercise political power? It should be abolished. (And yes, sometimes things I like have happened in lame duck sessions—they still should be abolished.)
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So not following you here. You’re saying the post election session somehow makes this a more legitimate exercise?
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