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With Donald Trump’s reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs and warfare.

Although he served as legal adviser to the Department of State in the Obama administration, in his warnings about the perils posed by the slide towards unilateral presidential powers, Harold Hongju Kou concedes that the president could have done more to curtail the Bush-era enhancement of the powers of the president.

The much-hyped new recruit, playing his first union game since his schooldays, had been on the periphery of the action in the opening stages, but left Ollie Sleightholme groping at air before flipping a pass over the top of Henry Slade for Tom Wright to slide in.

Far too many voters drifted away or fell asleep by the second slide and concluded — reluctantly, in many cases — that given the options, smashing things sounded like a lot more fun.

In the interim, the Dodgers’ hope is that Ohtani won’t be compromised at the plate, since the injury, which Ohtani suffered after jamming his arm into the ground on a slide into second base during the World Series, occurred to the back shoulder in his swing.