How the Merrick Garland nomination explains the rise of Donald Trump
"You may hear the word "norms" and think about things like courtesy or shopworn habits, but the truth is that there are many norms whose function is to permit government to operate in something like an efficient fashion. For instance, the norm by which the Federal Election Commission used to operate is that while the Commission's three Democratic and three Republican commissioners will have different views about election law, all will accept the basic premise that whatever they think the laws ought to be, the laws currently in place should be enforced. But the Republican commissioners have abandoned that norm, and as a result our election laws are simply not being enforced; at this point it's basically an honor system."
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