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Number of federal employees dropped from 3.1 million at the end of 1992 to 2.7 million at the end of 2000. Si se puede. All it takes is seriousness of purpose. Putting the real in front of the performative.

Al Gore and Bill Clinton showed how a for real serious attempt to streamline government can achieve good results.

Our intricate system on check-and-balances breaks down without a degree of self-restraint from the parties involved.

There is the small matter that the January 6th perps WERE in fact afforded due process. Some of y'all might have been unhappy with the outcome, but that's a different matter.

"no good reason" I guess Alito stopped reading the news

cerno is not wrong...trump could overturn the constitutional order and many people will voice qualms but in the end vote for him or abstain from opposing him

Cuz during the course of slavery and the Civil War it because clear that the states were capable of such abuses. If the Civil War had been about religion then the post-war amendments would probably have taken that up. But that's not what it was about.

Both the 5th and 14th amendments are written to apply to persons not citizens. Other parts of the constitution make the distinction. For example: "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United...

I think the case is about due process. The fifth amendment is the relevant one when it comes to infringement of due process by the federal government: "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." The 14th is relevant when it comes to state...

How is the 14th amendment related to this case?

astronomical

They wouldn't dare trade with us.

Powell's term as chair expires in a year. Will be interesting to see who Trump selects to succeed him.

eh...if we "lose" to the ccp it won't be for lack of hardware...it will be because we were dumb enough to undermine the thangs that make us the most advanced and technologically powerful society and economy the world has ever seen

We've done very well with a mostly services economy. In fact it is a hallmark of a country having an advanced economy. There is a very strong correlation between income levels and the proportion of an economy that is services. Not that this implies causality. You have a services job. Almost...

the fetish some people have for manufacturing jobs is going to be very costly for ordinary people...the very people those who advocate for returning manufacturing jobs claim to want to help

The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus. But as far as we can tell, Earth’s inhabitants remain alone in the cosmos. Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the...

Manufacturing activity contracted sharply in the Philadelphia area in April as new orders collapsed and costs for firms continued to rise after President Trump's flurry of tariffs at the start of the month. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday that its index for business...

Under our system the president has a lot of leeway. The courts give him a lot of deference on national security matters. He can even conduct illegal and unconstitutional policies for a time. But once the courts (especially the Supreme Court) rules against them they should respect that ruling...