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Good Day!!
I had a procedure done on my right eye on Mondaya shot to treat macular degenerationand something went wrong. Ive been dealing with awful pain for days, and I still cant see very well. Getting old is no picnic. Nevertheless, Ill do my best to produce a post.
Today is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Unfortunately, Trump made the celebration all about him instead of our country. He ruins everything. Fortunately, cities around the country are holding their own 4th of July events.
Here in Boston, there will be the usual outdoor concert with even more fireworks than usual. NBC10 Boston:
Happy Fourth of July! Its time for the 2026 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in addition to other Independence Day events that are being held across the city on Saturday.
This years , scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m. at the Hatch Shell, is expected to be bigger than ever as part of the ongoing celebration of Americas 250th birthday, with performances from Lainey Wilson, Chance The Rapper, Trombone Shorty and Megan Hilty, with Jane Lynch serving as host.
, however, due to the extreme heat our region has been experiencing. The gates will open to the public at 4 p.m. It was previously scheduled for 12 p.m.
for Saturdays display, and public health officials have stressed the importance of
The free event, which anchors a multi-year, statewide commemoration of Massachusetts 250, will conclude with a fireworks display illuminating the Charles River and choreographed with music performed by the Boston Pops, beginning at 9:15 p.m.
Massachusetts is where the American Revolution began, and this July 4, were proud to welcome people from across the state and country to celebrate 250 years of our nations history right here in Boston, Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement. From the incredible lineup of artists including the Boston Pops and fireworks over the Charles River, this years Spectacular will honor our past while celebrating the energy, creativity and diversity that define Massachusetts today. Were excited to share this special moment with millions of people here in Boston and watching around the world.
This years Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will be an unforgettable celebration for our residents and visitors from around the world, honoring Bostons revolutionary history, the courage of our communities, and the traditions that bring us together, Mayor Michelle Wu added. Bostons July 4th festivities are a cherished opportunity for friends and family to come together in celebration. We are proud to host this iconic event and to provide a memorable experience for all.
, including , a reading of the Declaration of Independence from the Old State House Balcony at 10:15 a.m. and an Independence Day Oration at Faneuil Hall at 11 a.m., featuring special guests including Nathaniel Sheidley, president and CEO of Revolutionary Spaces award-winning writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates and Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston.
Im sure there will be celebratory events where you live too. Im too old and I cant tolerate crowds and, but I like the idea of it.
In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave a wonderful, inclusive speech. NBC News:
In a speech marking Americas 250th anniversary, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani rejected President Donald Trumps view of the nation, and especially of its immigrants, without naming him directly.
Mamdani criticized Trumps immigration policies from City Hall while sitting behind a desk that once belonged to George Washington and flanked by recently naturalized U.S. citizens, rebuking the view held by the powerful that America becomes less the more people it welcomes.
America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are. How weak, how unoriginal, the mayor said.
The irony of American exceptionalism, he said, was that the countrys history was often written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
Mamdani was surrounded by some of Americas newest citizens waving U.S. flags, the same week that the Supreme Court , dealing a major blow to Trumps immigration agenda.
The work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work endures, and it belongs to us all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized, Mamdani said.
Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too, said Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2018.
Read more at the link.
Last night Trump gave a speech at Mt. Rushmore that, predictably, was angry and partisan. Shawn McCreesh at The New York Times:
Four months before tough midterm elections, President Trump used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore one night before the nations 250th birthday to characterize his political opponents as godless, evil communists.
We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish stupid and unwise, he said on Friday, demanding that Congress pass his so-called , which would impose stricter voter ID rules that would make it harder to vote. He called for terminating the filibuster.
The larger purpose of the speech was hard to miss. He was sharpening a line of attack that the White House has started to use to head off a newly insurgent of the Democratic Party that appears to be resonating with liberal voters.
Mr. Trump read from an apocalyptic script as the stony faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln looked on. He said the word communism so many times, you mightve thought the Cold War was still on.
He was not subtle. Communism, he said, is the enemy of July 4, 1776. He called it a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor and even 9/11. He name-checked Karl Marx.
A bit more:
The speech began on an upbeat note. The president painted a proud and optimistic portrait of the United States, describing it as nothing short of the greatest society in the history of civilization. The whole first half of his speech boiled down to this line: You live in a very special place congratulations, everybody. The crowd ate it up.
He soon began to pivot. There were people out there who didnt want English to be the dominant language of the United States, he warned. There were people out there who wanted to take away everyones guns, he warned. He promised never to let that happen.
He warned of newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.
It was not the first time hed used this backdrop to make a speech like this. Six years ago to the day, he spoke here at the end of his first term, when he was campaigning unsuccessfully for a second. Back then, the country was in the throes of the pandemic and gripped by civil unrest after the death of George Floyd, which inspired a national debate about statues and historical figures. Mr. Trump used his speech that night to warn of a new far-left fascism creeping up.
He switched ideologies in his second Rushmore speech on Friday.
Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, he declared. Its death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.
Trump has no clue what communism is.
Tom Schaller offers an alternative point of view on the Declaration at Public Notice: .
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a landmark moment in American and human history. Celebrations and fireworks aside, what does the Declaration mean two-and-a-half centuries later
The Declaration is loaded with meanings, some of them inherently self-contradictory. Its opening paragraphs are spine-tinglingly profound, but the bulk of the document is a grievous rant. The document set a global standard for freedom and self-governance as naturally inherent human rights, yet bounded those rights to a privileged white, male minority. It is timeless yet also somewhat outdated for American politics today.
Unfortunately, the Declaration of Independence penned primarily by Thomas Jefferson allows self-interested parties to validate their agendas by importing into that sacred document their preferred interpretations of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Precisely because the Declaration is so ripe for political manipulation, having Donald Trump lead the nation during this semiquincentennial anniversary offers a fitting, if bleak, opportunity to litigate anew the Declarations political utility.
The litigants are many. Netflix, for example, has leaned heavily into the revolutionary moment by releasing two new documentaries, plus biographical docudramas about presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Produced and directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, The American Revolution is a series that focuses almost exclusively on the war. Burns and his team deftly use war narratives as a trojan horse to subtly and sometimes not-so-subtly smuggle onto viewers screens the message that women, slaves, and Native Americans also played vital roles in the fight for independence.
When Revolution was released last autumn, Burns , cozying up to Republicans in ways that alarmed some critics. From a purely strategic standpoint, he shrewdly played Washington politics the same way contemporary lobbyists do when building coalitions to protect their interests, which in Burnss case is ongoing federal support for PBS programming.
Although Revolution avoids mentioning Trump, its inclusive set of narrators and topics delivers an implicit corrective to the white-washed histories of the founding moment. Revolution is Burnss anniversary gift, carefully but not too obtrusively wrapped with a multicultural bow.
Then, last month Netflix released a five-part series called . Shepherded by nearly a dozen producers headlined by Tom Hanks and directed by Brian Knappenberger, Experiment mixes recreations with interviews from both notable colonial scholars and contemporary politicians to explain the principles contained in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. (The documentary includes an important, useful interlude about the failed and often forgotten first attempt at an American republic: the doomed Articles of Confederation.)
Read the rest at Public Notice. I think Ill give those documentaries a try. They are bound to be a better alternative than Trumps speech tonight.
Trumps Great American State Fair has been a complete flop so far with very few people bothering to show up. Tonight Trump plans to give a political speech, and Ill bet hes nervous about the turnout.
BBC News:
US President Donald Trump will head to Washington DCs National Mall on Saturday for what he has billed as a spectacular rally celebrating Americas 250th anniversary.
The event, taking place as a sweltering heatwave grips swathes of the eastern and central US, will include flyovers by hundreds of aircraft and a fireworks display organisers hope will be the biggest of all time.
Military flyovers over Washington DC will happen every hour between 13:15 local time (17:15 GMT) and sunset, the organisers said, and will feature in one of the formations over the capital.
The president, however, has been accused by opponents of politicising the nations anniversary event and several music acts dropped out soon after being announced.
Extremely hot, humid temperatures of approximately 38C (100F) and a later-than-anticipated start time may also have an impact on the size of the crowd that attends.
The intense heat has already led to events being cancelled. On Friday, organisers of the National Park Services Independence Day Parade in Washington DC said they had cancelled the annual event over safety concerns. from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland to as far west as Colorado.
There is also the potential for evening thunderstorms that could disrupt the events, which have been organised by a White House-backed public-private partnership.
The Washington DC event, formally known as the Salute to America 250 Celebrations & Fireworks is due to begin at 19:00 local time, with Trump expected to speak a few hours later at approximately 21:45.
He has promised to make a really long speech at the Fourth of July festivities, despite the heatwave, to show that I can do anything.
A few news stories:
The New York Times:
An active-duty officer was placed into Air Force custody after he was arrested in uniform on Wednesday after an event in which he called for the impeachment, conviction and removal of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
The U.S. Capitol Police arrested the officer, Maj. Jason Watson, who identified himself as an active-duty service member, on the Capitol steps.
He was attending a organized by the Removal Coalition, a grass-roots activist group. Representative , who has filed articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump at least six times, also attended the event.
During his speech, Major Watson, who said he was not a member of the Democratic Party, accused the president and vice president of violating both the Constitution and their oaths of office.
Congress remains unconvinced of the urgency and necessity for them to honor their oath, he said, so we must persuade them, with our unrelenting, uncompromising civil resistance.
Major Watson ended his speech, in which he criticized the Trump administrations immigration policies as well as its actions in Venezuela and Iran, by calling on Americans to peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights.
After the news conference, he stood on the Capitol steps holding a sign with the words Impeach, Convict and Remove stacked one atop the other. Shortly afterward, he was arrested on suspicion of crowding, obstructing and incommoding, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement on Friday.
It is generally against the law for the public to demonstrate on the House steps unless they are with a member of Congress, the police said. The statement noted that Major Watson had been escorted to the House steps by a member of Congress and that after the member left, our officers gave the man lawful orders to stop the illegal demonstration.
The Daily Beast:
A has landed a well-placed blow on President Trump and his use of the military.
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., was one of three authors of an essay in the journal , published Friday, that slammed the politicization of the military.
Trump and his have tried to deploy the National Guard in blue cities, successfully in Washington, D.C., while simultaneously
Known for his balanced messaging and aversion to partisanship, Brown did not name Trump or Hegseth, but the targets of his words required little decoding.In the face of a genuine national disaster, the public will readily embrace the militarys help, Brown wrote. But when presidents use the armed forces for more politically contentious missions, such as addressing domestic crime in cities, the work of the military becomes more fraught.
Resorting to a military solution rather than fixing the underlying incapacity or dysfunction in civilian institutions diverts the military from focusing on its primary combat mission, he continued. And as George Washington knew, it is not the militarys job to save the republic from political impasses. Indeed if you ask too much of the military, you risk the entire enterprise.
The Independent:
The Department of Justice is refusing to hand over redacted information from , despite an order from a federal judge to either release the documents or explain why they were withheld.
Hours before a deadline to turn over the materials, Associate U.S. Attorney General Stanley Woodward asked the judge to delay the deadline for another two months, or to dissolve the order entirely by accepting the Justice Departments explanation for withholding those documents.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with journalist Katie Phang after she accusing Donald Trumps administration of violating the , which the president signed into law last year.
The lawsuit, which was filed against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accuses the government of obstructing the publics right to access materials connected to investigations into Epstein. The judge gave the Justice Department until Thursday to respond.
On Thursday night, Woodward that the government is committed to transparency and compliance but strongly disagrees with the judges order.
PBS News:
Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter Ts next to the Stars and Stripes and 1776 and 2026. Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Supermans logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant 250 and atop the phrase 250 YEARS USA etched in 18-karat gold.
All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump.
A very special thank you to my friends from Antwerp for the magnificent Freedom 250 ring, Trump said in a prerecorded video message during an event marking Americas 250th birthday in Brussels.
Isidore Mrsel, president of the Antwerp World Diamond Center, or AWDC, gifted the ring on behalf of the centuries-old diamond community in the Belgian port city, a central node in the worldwide trade of the precious stones that found itself struggling last year under the weight of Trumps sweeping trade war.
Disgusting.
The New York Times:
The White House announced on Friday that President Trump had issued pardons to 11 men, most of whom had been convicted of crimes related to the Clean Air Act, a bedrock environmental law.
The president also pardoned Adam Kidan, a major donor to Republicans, including Mr. Trump. He had served about two and a half years in prison for his role in a involving the disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Clean Air Act pardons benefited people who had sold or installed devices for diesel trucks that defeated their emissions controls, making them far more polluting. It was the latest move by the Trump administration to and curb air pollutants that harm human health.
Republicans and their allies in the business community have cast enforcement of the Clean Air Act as a hindrance to commerce and an undue burden to those who rely on diesel engines.
Mr. Trump, in a announcing some of the pardons on Friday afternoon, echoed that framing, minimizing the scale of the crimes and casting the law, which was first enacted in 1963, as a tool used by his predecessor to target political enemies.
It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for fixing their car, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Sickening. We have to get rid of him. This country cant survive 2 more years of his blatant criminality.
Thats all I have for today. I know this isnt much of a post, but its so difficult for me to see what Im doing. Take care everyone, and I hope you enjoy the Independence Day weekend despite our fascist overlords.
Donald Trump , une visite riche en symboles et un appel protger les migrants
Treize ans aprs son prdcesseur, Franois, le pape sest rendu, samedi, sur la petite le italienne devenue le symbole du drame des migrants morts en tentant de traverser la Mditerrane. Pour le pontife amricain, le choix de venir Lampedusa le jour o les de clbrent les 250 ans de leur indpendance tait dj un message.
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America at 250: Achievements, Disappointments, Disenfranchisement and the Case for Root-and-Branch Reform!
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, it can claim real achievements in constitutional endurance, scientific and economic capacity, and civil-society innovation, but it also faces serious disappointments in democratic performance, inequality, and the concentration of executive power.1 Public opinion reflects that tension: Gallups 2026 polling found 77% of Americans saying the Founders would be disappointed, while Elon University found a proud but deeply uneasy public that wants more reflection and reform.2
That self-assessment sits uneasily beside a long record of coercive foreign-policy action. The United Nations Charter prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state except in narrow circumstances such as Security Council authorisation or lawful self-defence, and U.S. interventions have repeatedly been criticised for stretching those limits or bypassing them altogether.3
The United States also has the dubious distinction of being the only state to have both developed and used nuclear weapons in war, beginning with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.4 That fact alone should strip away any easy moral posturing: a power that helped inaugurate the atomic age by incinerating two cities cannot credibly lecture the rest of the world about civilisation while vast numbers across the global South resent its relentless world policeman role as a mask for violence, domination, and hypocrisy.
Historically, the shift from coal to oil in the last century materially altered the balance of global power. Britains move from coal-fired naval supremacy to oil-dependent logistics increased its strategic vulnerability because its fleet mobility became dependent on foreign fuel supplies, while the postwar Bretton Woods settlement explicitly installed the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency and the central reserve and settlement currency of the international system.5 That arrangement gave the United States a structural financial advantage: it could finance external commitments and trade imbalances in its own currency, with far greater flexibility than states that lacked reserve-currency status.6 The point is not that America could literally print cash without limit, but that reserve-currency centrality reduced external financing constraints and helped make monetary power a complement to military power.
The republics moral account is also inseparable from the dispossession and destruction inflicted on Native peoples. From forced removals such as the Trail of Tears to decades of treaty-breaking, land seizure, and state violence, U.S. expansion was built in part on practices that historians and legal scholars describe as ethnic cleansing, and in some contexts genocide, against Indigenous nations.7 That history matters not as a detached exercise in guilt, but because a state that asks others to respect law and human dignity must face its own founding violence honestly if its reform claims are to carry any credibility.
The same moral problem appears in modern form when power is exercised abroad without clear legal warrant. A more durable and prosperous order would replace coercive, smash-and-grab hegemony with disciplined compliance with international law: the UN Charters limits on force, the International Court of Justices role as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and the International Criminal Courts mandate to deter atrocity and individual criminal responsibility.8 The goal is not weakness but legitimacy: law-governed restraint, consent-based diplomacy, and multilateral accountability can reduce bloodshed, lower long-run costs, and help convert military predominance into durable peace and prosperity.9
Clean politics also means stripping out the undue influence of security hawks, lobbying networks, donor power, and foreign-policy elites that reward escalation, secrecy, and permanent conflict. No ally, donor network, or pressure bloc should be allowed to bend policy away from law, accountability, and the public interest transparency, congressional control, and democratic oversight must come first.10
That point applies to Middle East policy too. The United States should reject foreign-policy capture and insist that all allies be held to the same legal and diplomatic standards as everyone else no external relationship should override American law, congressional authority, or the long-term public interest.11
The USS Liberty case remains a searing reminder that accountability matters even when politically inconvenient. In June 1967, a U.S. Navy signals-intelligence ship in international waters was attacked by Israel during the Six-Day War, killing 34 Americans and wounding many more the incident remains controversial, with continuing debate over whether it was a tragic mistake or a deliberate attack, and many still regard the lack of full clarity as a wound in the record of alliance politics and justice.12 A rules-based order cannot survive selective memory or impunity for friends.
Chronology: Major US interventions of disputed lawfulness
YearEpisodeUN Charter / legal issue assessment1945Nuclear bombs incinerate Hiroshima and NagasakiPre-UN Charter, but central historical baseline for later nuclear and force debates.The United States became the only state to use nuclear weapons in war.41953Iran coup contextSovereignty, non-intervention, covert regime change.Commonly cited as an early Cold War example of external political interference.1954Guatemala coupSovereignty, non-intervention, covert regime change.Widely treated as a classic regime-change intervention.1961Bay of Pigs / CubaUse of force, covert action, sovereignty.Failed intervention and major escalation in covert-action practice.19641973Vietnam War escalationUse of force, self-defence claims, war powers.Prolonged war with heavily contested legality and authority.1967Overlooking USS Liberty incidentSovereignty, neutral vessel protection, accountability.Israel attacks a U.S. ship in international waters controversy persists over intent and the adequacy of accountability.121980sNicaragua / ContrasNon-intervention, use of force by proxy.One of the clearest international-law controversies of the Cold War.1983GrenadaArticle 2(4), self-defence claims.Widely criticised as lacking a strong Charter basis.1989PanamaArticle 2(4), self-defence claims.Commonly cited as a disputed and controversial use of force.1991Gulf WarSecurity Council authorisation.More legally secure because it rested on Council authorisation.1999Kosovo / NATO bombingArticle 2(4), Chapter VII.Legally contested often framed as humanitarian intervention without explicit Council authorisation.2001AfghanistanArticle 51 self-defence after 9/11.More defensible than many cases, though later scope and duration raised questions.2003Iraq invasionArticle 2(4), Chapter VII, Article 51.One of the clearest modern examples of a force controversy lacking a fresh Security Council mandate.2011Libya interventionChapter VII mandate scope, proportionality, mandate drift.Initially authorised for civilian protection later criticised as drifting toward regime change.2014presentISIS campaign / Syria and IraqSelf-defence, collective self-defence, territorial consent.Long-running legal debate, especially in Syria.2020sDrone strikes and targeted killingsArticle 2(4), Article 51, sovereignty, due process.Continuing contestation over extraterritorial force and accountability.This table is not an exhaustive indictment of every U.S. foreign-policy action. It is a selective legal history of major interventions and contested uses of force, arranged chronologically to show the recurring gap between the Charters rules and repeated practice.13 The point is not that every episode is equally unlawful, but that the pattern is persistent enough to justify structural reform.
The post-9/11 security architecture reinforced that pattern at home. The USA PATRIOT Act broadened surveillance and investigative powers, the Homeland Security Act institutionalised a permanent security apparatus, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force created a long-running force authorisation that has continued to shape executive action.14 Together, those measures shifted power toward the executive and away from the ordinary discipline of democratic review.15
The critique is therefore not abstract anti-Americanism or sentimental grievance. It is a demand for constitutional maturity: a republic that can celebrate real achievements should also be able to acknowledge founding violence, imperial overreach, and the legal limits that its own actions have often tested.16
Policy implications
A serious reform programme should therefore do four things: strengthen electoral fairness, restore congressional control over war, narrow overbroad security powers, and reorient national strategy toward domestic resilience rather than habitual intervention.17 That is not isolationism. It is lawful restraint, with foreign policy made accountable to the people who bear its costs.
The United States must also stop using its Security Council veto to shield Israeli impunity from accountability. A government that preaches a rules-based order while blocking action against mass civilian suffering is not defending law it is abusing power, plain and simple. Washington should recognise Palestine, enforce equal standards under international law, and end the disgraceful fiction that one ally is entitled to permanent exemption from consequences. No flag is large enough to cover innocent blood, the mass killing of civilians, or the ruthless slaughter of children. No national symbol can wash away the moral reality of those crimes, and no ally should be shielded from accountability when they occur.
In closing, as 47th President since Americas founding, Trumps egotism has distorted US foreign policy into vanity theatre: he treats war less as a grave public responsibility than as a stage for proving his own toughness. His illegal unilateral war on Iran is proving to be strategic blunder of the highest orderreckless, futile, and almost certainly self-defeatingbecause it has inflamed the region, empowered the very forces he claims to weaken, and trapped the United States in another endless conflict with no credible exit. It has also exposed how isolated Washington has become from many of its allies, who are increasingly unwilling to follow the United States into lawless escalation. And the economic blast radius is enormous: oil prices, shipping, supply chains, and global markets are all taking hits, risking wider financial shock far beyond the Middle East.
Domestically, immigration enforcement remains one of the most politically charged parts of the Trump era, with ICE repeatedly criticised for heavy-handed raids, family separations, and a broader culture of intimidation that treats vulnerable people as targets rather than human beings. That controversy was sharpened again by yesterdays Supreme Court ruling, which rejected Trumps attempt to deny birthright citizenship to immigrants children and reinforced the constitutional principle that executive power cannot simply erase settled rights by decree. America 250: isnt this the moment to stop pretending and restore democratic accountability before the damage becomes irreversible and decline sets in If not now, when
Footnotes
- Based on the Charter system, ICJ practice, and ICC jurisdiction as referenced above.
- Clean politics here means transparent, law-governed, and democratically accountable decision-making.
- Foreign-policy capture and lobbying influence should never override law or the public interest.
- Derived from the legal architecture above and subsequent scholarship on executive power and war powers.
- Normative synthesis drawing together the historical, legal, and institutional record discussed in the article.
- Reform synthesis based on the preceding chronology and legal analysis.
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Happy and also a reminder that whatever is in the scares the shit out of that little rapey bitch
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Universelle und blinde Flecken
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Isnt it about time he stroked out ..
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