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Biden's Committee Is As Effective As Punching Inanimate Objects

If this committee were in charge of figuring out student loans before they were due again, I'd be in the clear.

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The U.S. Supreme Court (Photo by David Lat).

Want to hear a joke?

What do you get when you put together a committee of some of the brightest legal minds to discuss if SCOTUS needs a few more seats?

Nothing.

Trust me when I say that the punchline was as satisfying as the process. Did anyone really expect much from a committee that was brought together to determine if there needed to be a committee about something? I personally haven’t written on this previously, so I won’t toot my own horn. But Joe did. I’ll be the fourth to say when he’s right, he’s right. There were clear avenues that presented themselves before the commission’s formation —all they had to do was pick a thing to do that fell in line with what the American public wanted of its pinnacle tribunal. Instead, they spent an absurd period of time choosing between a brown hat or a grey one. But like, jurisprudentially. The brightest minds concluded that thinking about how to deal with the structure of the Court amid worries of its partisanship “merit[s] close attention and consideration.” Really? You know what else merits that? Paying attention to season 1 episode 9 of Squid Game. For a group of people frequently accused of indoctrinating young minds with Marxism, it looks like they need a reminder from the head honcho.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

The rule of law is hanging by a thread. Figure this shit out before we lose more rights, please and thanks.

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

 

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