Will Baude
SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit
It’s not there yet, but danger signs are appearing. Invest in real journalism to stop the bleeding.
Like most law nerds, I often check out SCOTUSblog when I want to see what the Corrupt Six are doing nowadays. But I had not caught one major change that we should all watch out for: it has become a part of the right-wing media ecosystem. A few months ago, it was purchased by The …
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CONTINUE READINGLegal “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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