Chart o’ the Day: Somewhere along the way (okay, 1997), Justice Clarence Thomas stopped filling out his disclosure forms properly. With the Supreme Court set to consider President Obama’s health care reform in the near future—a law Thomas’ wife was paid to lobby against—the liberal watchdog group Common Cause is calling for a formal inquiry.
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The split between law and violence is false even, or above all, with regard to the modern State…this supremely juridical state holds a monopoly of violence and ultimate terror, a monopoly on war. Thus, in every state, law is an integral part of the repressive order and of the organization of violence…law organizes the conditions for physical repression…law is the code of organized public violence.
