Ballots that incorrectly call the Democratic nominee for state representative the incumbent can be counted, a judge from the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled.
The Republican nominee, Tracy Post, had asked for an injunction to stop town election officials in Dennis from counting as many as about 2,600 ballots in the First Barnstable District that say inaccurately that Democratic nominee Christopher Flanagan is the current holder of the office, according to The Cape Cod Times.
I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn. But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don't know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison. This year in my Foundations of Law course for first-year law students, I found my students especially impervious to the ancient wisdom of foundational texts, such as Plato's Crito and the Code of Hammurabi. Many of them were quick to dismiss unfamiliar ideas as "classist" and "racist," and thus unable to engage with those ideas on the merits. So, a couple of weeks into the semester, I decided to lay down some ground rules. I gave them these rules just before beginning our annual unit on legal reasoning.
