Biden's Departure and Harris's Arrival (a Dorf on Law classic)
On the occasions when we at Dorf on Law post what we call classics (also known as reruns), we usually reach back into our archive by months or even years to find a column that has some sort of renewed relevance to the news of the day. Today, I am turning the dial on the way-back machine only 22 days into the past; but given the time warp that seems to have enveloped the world this summer, a bit more than three weeks feels like an eternity. In any case, on U.S. Independence Day earlier this month, I published " About that Non-Debate, and Facing Reality ," which was my first response to the precipitating event that led President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Reaching that finish line took an excruciatingly long time (from June 27th to July 21st), but we got there. I will suggest here, with absolutely no modesty, that my July 4th column is now interesting to read as an insta-classic. Even if I am kidding myself, now that we know Biden is out and Harris is i