Adam Gurri

Like giving someone a little money or a very modest fine is not really a big deal in my opinion.

And and if if that's all it takes to encourage extremely high levels of voter participation, then we should absolutely do it.

Yeah.

I think we have more than enough complaining about how bad things are.

I mean, if that's all you're doing.

Obviously, we publish plenty of pieces that are explaining how bad things are so that people really understand it because it's often more subtle than it appears in a headline.

And that's fine and necessary.

You have to actually understand the problem in order to think of positive solutions.

But overall, especially the last year and a half, we're very focused on let's look ahead.

And the reconstruction papers is sort of the ultimate version of that idea.

But in general, thinking about...

both things we can do for a longer term, but also things we could do right now.

So I'll publish things that I don't necessarily think are going to get picked up, but just to show that we should be thinking along these lines.

So for example, when Trump was going after a bunch of law firms and they were caving and making deals with him, I wrote just a quick thing, just not very long, a few hundred words that said,

The organizations that have the power to stop this are state bar associations, because the entire calculus for not fighting in court is that these law firms are afraid they're going to go out of business if they fight the federal government.

And if a state bar association says, if you make a deal, we will interpret that as a violation of your oath and disbar you.

then that's 100% guarantee that not fighting will put you out of business.

And it shifts the calculus, right?

Did I think that state bars were going to take up that argument?

No.