{"id":7176,"date":"2016-12-13T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2016-12-13T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:04:13","slug":"a-thicket-too-far-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/a-thicket-too-far-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thicket Too Far, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/a-thicket-too-far-ctd-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">thread<\/a>, the reader responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not assuming a permanent political split, but I am assuming that in matters of POTUS, Roberts, Alito, Scalia are guaranteed for the GOP. Pretty risky to go after with an 8 member court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I presume that the reader meant\u00a0Thomas, not Scalia. The Court should be simply working on matters of law, and Lessig&#8217;s argument appears to depend on a proper appreciation of how the law has been interpreted in the past. Would the Court simply split along political lines? Are our Justices really that poor as a whole?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, I really think that if Lessig truly thinks this is a legit argument he should get ready to file it. Sooner rather than later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if he would have standing. It&#8217;s not a subject I understand well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this thread, the reader responds: I&#8217;m not assuming a permanent political split, but I am assuming that in matters of POTUS, Roberts, Alito, Scalia are guaranteed for the GOP. Pretty risky to go after with an 8 member court. I presume that the reader meant\u00a0Thomas, not Scalia. The Court \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/a-thicket-too-far-ctd-5\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}