{"id":2062,"date":"2026-01-26T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:17:24","slug":"defending-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/defending-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My response to the recent ICE killings has been to donate $7000 to the campaign of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Louisiana\">Senator Bill Cassidy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassidy is a Republican who has called for a &#8220;full joint federal and state investigation&#8221; into the latest shooting. He also voted to convict Trump in the second impeachment trial. He faces strong opposition from a Trump-endorsed opponent in the primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rule of law depends rather heavily on some Republicans standing up against Trump. Supporting Cassidy seems like the clearest way to encourage that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My response to the recent ICE killings has been to donate $7000 to the campaign of Senator Bill Cassidy. Cassidy is a Republican who has called for a &#8220;full joint federal and state investigation&#8221; into the latest shooting. He also voted to convict Trump in the second impeachment trial. He faces strong opposition from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-xg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}