SCOTUS
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SCOTUS is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 26, 2023 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Davies begins a chapter by quoting SCOTUS Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo”; “The most obvious is SCOTUS, which is firmly Republican”; “SCOTUS decision”. It most often appears alongside Donald Trump, Apple, Democrats.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: May 26, 2023
- Last seen: February 27, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The things that we outlaw as market crimes tend to become "crimes" (as opposed to "things that are generally frowned upon") specifically because of negative externalities. When the profits are centralized while the costs are distributed, it creates bad incentives, and laws are one way to solve this. (Davies begins a chapter by quoting SCOTUS Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who said “The final cause of law is the welfare of society.”)
The most obvious is SCOTUS, which is firmly Republican. They seem pretty interested in the project of rolling back the past few decades of progressive power grabs, and I’m pretty happy with a lot of how that is going. But the sovereign immunity ruling suggests they’re not willing to be a strong bulwark against right-wing authoritarianism. Given that we have a judicial defense against the left but not the right, it’s probably safer to elect left-wingers than right-wingers.
23: Sentinel (group with superforecasters monitoring world events) predicts a 39% chance that the Trump administration ignores at least one SCOTUS decision (conditional on there being one against them), and a 72% chance of a “free and fair” election in 2028 (assuming no existential catastrophe before then). I wonder what their 28% vision of a “non free and fair” election looks like.
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