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Not necessarily - read the sentence before that last sentence. The POTUS should not be tied up by any random judge who thinks he is the Almighty. And we have elections to select representatives rather than mob rule because we recognize that we can pick leaders wiser than ourselves, which implicitly allows for the idea that they will sometimes vote against the mob, even the mob that elected them.
Yeah, that’s what lurks in the back of my mind about the current composition of the Supreme Court. Hopefully Alito and Thomas, despite their Catholicism, resist this kind of triumphalism. No wonder so many of Trump’s judicial appointees . vetted through the federalist society, let alone Roberts and Coney, march as though listening to the cadences of two different drummers
Basically, he’s an integralist.
An originalist concept of the unitary executive.
Agreed, abandoning originalism, and you abandon the moral underpinning of the constitution. It’s the temptation of the left, do not fall for it.
““and can now give way to a new confidence in authoritative rule for the common good.”
And who exactly will be this wise authority that will define and enforce “the common good”?
I haven’t seen anything like this in Alito or Thomas.
In June 2004, then-Senator Hillary Clinton made the statement, “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good,” during a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco for Senator Barbara Boxer.
agreed, they’re rock-ribbed.
The common good as mandated from on high is exactly what the Constitution prohibits.
Our individual rights, given by God Himself, are to be protected from the clowns in government.
BUMP
Originalism is not a predecessor. It is the only way this Republic can function. The best of Enlightenment thought was distilled into the Declaration of Independance when it says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Next came the Constitution and Bill of Rights as outgrowths of that foundation.
When I was on the old twitter, I once “liked” a comment that was critical of something that Adrian V tweeted... and he immediately blocked me. Touchy, touchy.
"Subjects", eh?
"at first as coercive", eh?
Hail Vermeule!!!
HAIL VICTORY!!!
That's a damning indictment of this forum.
We need to do better.
They're going for the world record.
He sort of comes across that way.
The article is too long and wordy. Just a lot of communist collectivist authoritarian sophistry.
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It’s just a rambling piece of work about various theories of jurisprudence that are not new and doesn’t really change a thing. Judges who stray afield of originalism defeat the very basis for law’s existence. The same holds true for God’s Word in the Bible from which much of our law derives.
Never heard of Adrian Vermeule before, but his mother Emily Vermeule was Sather Professor at Berkeley when I was a graduate student and I went to her lectures. The only thing I remember from them is that she showed a cartoon where a man has been snatched up by a large bird and his wife is down on the ground yelling for him to drop his keys.
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