In downtown Seattle, up on the second floor of City Hall, is a liberal city council that takes pride in passing first-in-the-nation laws to protect the environment, renters, and civil rights. Over on the other side of Lake Washington, just nine miles away from City Hall, is a nondescript office park that houses a group of libertarian lawyers who take pride in finding ways to take those laws down.
One of those libertarian lawyers, Ethan Blevins, casts the Seattle City Council as “a group of people with really good intentions who think that government is the great panacea for all our problems.”
