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Daily Maverick’s regular columnist on matters legal, known only by his or her
nom de plume “Professor Balthazar”, has strayed from the paths of constitutionalism in a column, published on 14 January, to which this response is akin to a trout rising to a well-cast fly on a tranquil pond.
Here is the problem with the anti-lawfare attitude of the learned professor: when SA turned its back on the parliamentary sovereignty of the apartheid era and replaced its more odious features with a supreme Constitution which itself regards the rule of law as supreme, a fundamental change in the system of governance in SA was made (judging by the portrait of an ageing Einstein lookalike that Balthazar uses, it is safe to assume that these changes occurred long after the professor left law school.)
all right. new york penn station, a legendary station. it is one of the nation s busiest train hubs. it s also, by the way, sad to say, one of the ugliest. penn station serves some 600,000 rail commuter and subway passengers every day, amtrak, new jersey transit, long island railroad. you re looking at it right now. i call it affectionately the belly of the beast. i ve had many daily lunches there. 9 million amtrak passengers come and go every year from poorly lit underground platforms. stimulus money is going to a phase one expansion of the station, it has an estimated price tag of $1.5 billion. in the end, passengers could one day, there s what it will look like, that s an existing post office across the road, at the end of you could disembark at an