Antonia Malchik on On the Commons

Carsie Blanton is now my new favorite listen! (I don't follow music much, so always appreciate suggestions like these. This one is particularly good, thanks!) There was a great law paper I read last year -- have to try to find it again -- by a Native American law student on what it was like to sit in law school and have this case briefly discussed and its importance glossed over. I think it was called "Listen." Your insight as someone who's been to law school is helpful for me because every time I read this case, or read about it, it just seems so horribly egregious, and I wonder if I'm missing something. But I don't think so. Your explanation about where he could have left it but didn't makes me stop and want to go back in again and try to figure out where his head was at. ESPECIALLY when he then refuted the same main arguments in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia some years later! This part from your comment will stick with me: "‘We are staring the injustice of this in the face, we grasp how wrong this is under the general abstract morality we otherwise claim to believe in, but we are deciding it anyway, and we just want to make sure everyone knows that for all time.' Which going back to the song, I think the weird threads he left there in his words are still dangling, and waiting to be picked up."