Lev Menand
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1,295 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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Law as a social coordinating mechanism, it tears at the fabric of law.
Every time someone violates our understanding of what the law is, it's tearing at the fabric of law.
So these removals that Trump has engaged in, because there's precedent on point saying you can't do them, this is tearing at law.
This is reducing the effectiveness of law as a coordinating mechanism.
mechanism, which is something we should value because it helps us organize our lives in an effective way with minimal social conflict.
So there's sort of just like a narrow concern with contorting, distorting doctrine and law reduces respect for law and its effectiveness.
The more persuasive, I think, answer to market participants, you know, who are not like invested in this in sort of like the if you know what's gonna happen to the to the
Yeah.
No, we only care about if the g if you know what's gonna happen to the to the stock market, right?
Stock market, right?
Um I think that
Every time the court
Cedes more authority to the president, they call into question their ability and willingness in the future to draw the line.
Okay.
And so if they write an opinion.
In the FTC case, overruling Humphreys executor that says
The Fed is an exception, and this ruling doesn't apply to the Fed.
That will, of course, in this moment, on its face, protect Fed independence.
But now that we've moved the line, 2010, 2020, 2021, and then again, more and more towards the president, we invite the president to test this new exception.
And there's a number of ways the president might do it.
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