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George Will warns of the authoritarianism now being unleashed in California by so-called “Progressives.” A slice:

Where will this social sorting end? Proposition 16’s aim is to see that there is no end to the industry of improvising remedial measures to bring “social justice” to a fundamentally unjust state, and nation. The aim is to dilute, to the point of disappearance, inhibitions about government using group entitlements — racial, ethnic and gender — for social engineering. Most important, Proposition 16 greases the state’s slide into the engineering of young souls.

Richard Epstein is not buying the arguments that Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule advance, in their new book, in defense of modern America’s administrative state. A slice:

Sunstein and Vermeule optimistically claim that by and large the constraints built into the administrative state respect [Lon] Fuller’s commands, and thus bolster the “internal” morality of administrative law. But their point breaks down almost immediately because the modern administrative state gives little or no protection against retroactive legislation and related abuses. Likewise, the modern deference to administrative agencies allows for dramatic flip-flops in administrative law whenever political control shifts from one party to the other. To give an example, the innocent phrase “waters of the United States” was once interpreted to mean navigable waters on which boats or logs could float. But after a collusive