Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, and the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th century Bulgaria or something.
–Chief Justice Roberts back in the day, in a quote resurfaced by The New Republic this week in a piece about the growing influence of conservative ex-clerks and legal scholars pumping out secondary source material for the courts to cite when precedent and the history don’t back up their policy aims. Specifically, TNR examines the cottage scholarship attempting to reimagine the Birthright Citizenship clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Pick up a copy of any law review that you see, and the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th century Bulgaria or something.
–Chief Justice Roberts back in the day, in a quote resurfaced by The New Republic this week in a piece about the growing influence of conservative ex-clerks and legal scholars pumping out secondary source material for the courts to cite when precedent and the history don’t back up their policy aims. Specifically, TNR examines the cottage scholarship attempting to reimagine the Birthright Citizenship clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment.
