dust off

As it turns out, the real “central pillar of American democracy” is that no man is above the law, unless that man is deemed sufficiently “extraordinary” for one reason or another, in which case retired members of the Supreme Court bar will dust off their keyboards to crank out half-baked blog posts conflating an election result with a legal exoneration.

On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Katherine Yon Ebright, from the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, to discuss whether Trump could dust off this 226-year-old statute to carry out his promised mass deportations of noncitizens.

“The concept of letting it burn out through food animals, with unmonitored voluntary testing, has failed. There are pandemic playbooks that we need to dust off and begin to implement.”

“There are pandemic playbooks that we need to dust off and begin to implement.”

So when Penn migrated south three years ago and began laying the foundation for another expansion club, this time in San Diego, it was assumed he’d simply dust off the same blueprints.