Legal Conservatives Now Want to Move Beyond Originalism

[brucejoel99]

Vermeule is like a particularly loathsome mix of William F. Buckley & Mencius Moldbug, without even the business-savvy of Buckley or the ability to code & actually make a good argument of Yarvin.

Or he's just in the middle of a decade-long performance art piece designed to show how absurd the tenure system for legal academics is... I hope.

But yeah, this dude's employment at Harvard & The Atlantic's decision to publish him should be an absolute scandal. We have plenty of radical-right Christian websites providing a venue for this kind of bigoted insanity.

[brucejoel99]

https://elections-daily.com/2020/07/24/trump-nominates-adrian-vermeule-to-acus/

Not sure a hard-line theocratic fascist whose views are inimical to both the spirit & the letter of the Constitution (not to mention the views of those who fought the King's armies for the right to create it) has anything positive to add to the conversation about constraining the administrative state or American liberty in general, but... no, that's it, honestly.

This is a small but certainly ominous sign about the future of legal conservatism, given that more than a few White House officials probably had to sign off on this.