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Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards

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Slovenliness Represents Demise of Objective Social Standards
From left, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (an independent who caucuses with Democrats), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) listen as Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) speaks at a press conference at the Capitol in Washington on May 18, 2023. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Josh Hammer
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The U.S. Senate, once known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes—no matter how casual or unprofessional—they happen to fancy on any given day. Following the decision by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier last week to have the sergeant-at-arms cease enforcing the Senate’s long-standing dress code, senators might be forgiven for trading in their traditional Brooks Brothers wares for clothing from that most chic of modern haberdashers: the local homeless shelter.

Josh Hammer
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Josh Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators, and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and cultural issues, Hammer is a constitutional attorney by training. He hosts “The Josh Hammer Show,” a Newsweek podcast, and co-hosts the Edmund Burke Foundation's “NatCon Squad” podcast. Hammer is a college campus speaker through Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Young America's Foundation, as well as a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Hammer worked at a large law firm and clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Hammer has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and a fellow with the James Wilson Institute. Hammer graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida, but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.
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