Unitary Executive Theory

Legal “Scholarship” and the Overproduction of Elites

What’s the point of writing about the Supreme Court when its only ideology is intellectual dishonesty?

Why do we even bother with this anymore? The New York Times breathlessly reports that the University of Virginia’s Caleb Nelson, a well-respected originalist scholar, has concluded that the “unitary executive theory,” long promoted by conservatives, is, well, bunk. “A bombshell!,” enthuses Will Baude of the University of Chicago, himself a well-respected originalist scholar – …

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The Unitary Executive Theory As Government-Smasher

The Supreme Court’s Imperial Presidency drive isn’t formalism: it is calculated to destroy the state.

It is a misnomer to discuss the current Supreme Court’s “jurisprudence” on anything, as if it has an approach to any legal question other than, “because we said so, libtard.” But in the wake of the Court’s lawless and arbitrary use of the shadow docket to destroy statutes and precedents for the purpose of giving …

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