{"id":136169,"date":"2025-10-31T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/chief-justice-roberts-used-to-make-fun-of-law-reviews-before-fedsoc-started-turning-them-into-constitutional-fan-fiction\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:51:50","slug":"chief-justice-roberts-used-to-make-fun-of-law-reviews-before-fedsoc-started-turning-them-into-constitutional-fan-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/chief-justice-roberts-used-to-make-fun-of-law-reviews-before-fedsoc-started-turning-them-into-constitutional-fan-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Roberts Used To Make Fun Of Law Reviews Before FedSoc Started Turning Them Into Constitutional Fan Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2013Chief Justice Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/3\/31\/8315173\/orin-kerr-kant-roberts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back in the day<\/a>, in a quote <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/202505\/law-professors-bogus-birthright-citizenship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resurfaced by The New Republic this week<\/a> 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\u2019t back up their policy aims. Specifically, TNR examines the cottage scholarship attempting to reimagine the Birthright Citizenship clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/chief-justice-roberts-used-to-make-fun-of-law-reviews-before-fedsoc-started-turning-them-into-constitutional-fan-fiction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Justice Roberts Used To Make Fun Of Law Reviews Before FedSoc Started Turning Them Into Constitutional Fan Fiction<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/john-roberts-GettyImages-1232480882-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2013Chief Justice Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/3\/31\/8315173\/orin-kerr-kant-roberts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back in the day<\/a>, in a quote <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/202505\/law-professors-bogus-birthright-citizenship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resurfaced by The New Republic this week<\/a> 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\u2019t back up their policy aims. Specifically, TNR examines the cottage scholarship attempting to reimagine the Birthright Citizenship clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u2013Chief Justice Roberts back in the day, in a quote resurfaced by The New Republic this week in a piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/john-roberts-GettyImages-1232480882-9KDyqe.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}