Kevin, you have made a great contribution to Oregon with The Oregon Way. More to say on that in future comments.
For now, my compliments again for your insights about the courts and court decisions. I have read a few (only a few) Oregon Supreme Court decisions in the last decade or so, but I found them to be impressively reasoned and explicated -- although one does have to overcome the legal formatting and stylistic conventions. There was a time in our history when justices like Oliver Wendell Holmes were quoted frequently in politics and are quoted today in our textbooks. He and others spoke to a more general audience. I'd like to see more of that, and I like your idea of more frequent replication -- perhaps as excerpts -- in our mainstream media. With the exception of commentators like Nina Tottenberg and Marsha Coyle on NPR and PBS, we rarely get the reporting on the courts that we need. Maybe we need a SCOTO blog!
BTW, are you familiar with Jonathan Rausch's new book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth? He makes the very important point that the courts, in their insistence on evidence, are a bulwark of truth, as we saw in their adjudication of the false claims of a stolen 2020 election. In fact, they may be our last best defense fo truth.
Kevin, you have made a great contribution to Oregon with The Oregon Way. More to say on that in future comments.
For now, my compliments again for your insights about the courts and court decisions. I have read a few (only a few) Oregon Supreme Court decisions in the last decade or so, but I found them to be impressively reasoned and explicated -- although one does have to overcome the legal formatting and stylistic conventions. There was a time in our history when justices like Oliver Wendell Holmes were quoted frequently in politics and are quoted today in our textbooks. He and others spoke to a more general audience. I'd like to see more of that, and I like your idea of more frequent replication -- perhaps as excerpts -- in our mainstream media. With the exception of commentators like Nina Tottenberg and Marsha Coyle on NPR and PBS, we rarely get the reporting on the courts that we need. Maybe we need a SCOTO blog!
BTW, are you familiar with Jonathan Rausch's new book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth? He makes the very important point that the courts, in their insistence on evidence, are a bulwark of truth, as we saw in their adjudication of the false claims of a stolen 2020 election. In fact, they may be our last best defense fo truth.
All the best in your next endeavors.