{"id":152483,"date":"2026-05-20T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/maybe-law-professors-need-to-sit-out-the-next-few-constitutional-crises\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:45:09","slug":"maybe-law-professors-need-to-sit-out-the-next-few-constitutional-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/maybe-law-professors-need-to-sit-out-the-next-few-constitutional-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Law Professors Need To Sit Out The Next Few Constitutional Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kind of feel like we especially don\u2019t need fancy law explainers at the moment. \u201cCan the president just take money when he wants?\u201d A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Paul Musgrave, a political science professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/professormusgrave.bsky.social\/post\/3mmc4a4ozz22b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling out<\/a> legal academia\u2019s scholarly standards. It\u2019s a harsh and unfair attack on some law professors\u2026 but a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/jonathan-turley-defends-virginia-redistricting-opinion-by-refusing-to-explain-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutally accurate description of many<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/maybe-law-professors-need-to-sit-out-the-next-few-constitutional-crises\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe Law Professors Need To Sit Out The Next Few Constitutional Crises<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kind of feel like we especially don\u2019t need fancy law explainers at the moment. \u201cCan the president just take money when he wants?\u201d A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Paul Musgrave, a political science professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/professormusgrave.bsky.social\/post\/3mmc4a4ozz22b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling out<\/a> legal academia\u2019s scholarly standards. It\u2019s a harsh and unfair attack on some law professors\u2026 but a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/jonathan-turley-defends-virginia-redistricting-opinion-by-refusing-to-explain-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutally accurate description of many<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/maybe-law-professors-need-to-sit-out-the-next-few-constitutional-crises\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe Law Professors Need To Sit Out The Next Few Constitutional Crises<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of feel like we especially don\u2019t need fancy law explainers at the moment. \u201cCan the president just take money when he wants?\u201d A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito \u2014 Paul Musgrave, a political science professor, calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-152483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152483","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=152483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}