If Trump said he was reinstituting chattel slavery these guys would write an op ed explaining why the 13 amendment allows it. The entire conservative legal movement is nothing but stooping lickspittles bsky.app/profile/anth... - ThreadSky

adamserwer.bsky.social • 4 days ago

If Trump said he was reinstituting chattel slavery these guys would write an op ed explaining why the 13 amendment allows it. The entire conservative legal movement is nothing but stooping lickspittles https://bsky.app/profile/anthonymkreis.bsky.social/post/3lihsd6d2q22y

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The fact that Wurman and Barnett feel like a blog post is necessary to clarify their bombshell op-ed is fundamentally what’s wrong with law office history. You shouldn’t muddle through it. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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pedromescali.bsky.social•4 days ago

The 14th amendment says any person . . . subject to the jurisdiction etc - nothing about the parents. So why isn’t the focus on the baby?

oldbluebabe.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is wickedly funny and dead on at the same time and so sadly true

davidcrowe.bsky.social•4 days ago

You are correct. People like this exist to help paper over the holes in the scholarship and justify whatever position their patrons need them to make more palatable in service of the agenda.

katiecannon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Right wing myth: Money comes from tax payers & bond holders

Constitution: The state creates the currency

Banks create loans

hquain.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Lickspittles" may be too generous, housing them in the "banality" rather than the "evil" part of the spectrum.

At what point may we conclude that they're acting in accord with their deepest sympathies?

kimphilbywasbad.bsky.social•3 days ago

The conservative stance is that all amendments were intended to change nothing and only meant to restate the common law.

So doofs and Alito are quoting weird ass 16th C racists and monarchists as controlling.

akenn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don't give them any ideas

careycuprisin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Will Baude, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you

careycuprisin.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

calixtus.bsky.social•4 days ago

The cruelty is the point, but the self satisfaction from the "clever argument" is the payoff

waluigiyaoi.bsky.social•4 days ago

What’s insane is you could make a (bad) argument for that makes more sense than the birth right one. There’s no clause that says “um actually not really lol” like the 13th

hallucinatingai.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not if, when.

yesterdayscatch.bsky.social•3 days ago

All of those fancy seminars and expense paid trips tho

itsjohn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Adam, I want to lay down the marker that they'll seriously try to bring back something like indenture. No joke. "People should be able to enter into whatever contract they choose."

tuckshoptalk.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the k-12 school choice argument adopted to the workplace. “Maybe he enjoys being a slave” “it’s a win-win and his choice”.

ktheintz.bsky.social•4 days ago

We probably won't have legalized servitude in the US anytime soon, but it will be foundational in the "network states" of which Silicon Valley is so enamored. So we'll be competing with slave labor soon enough.

ktheintz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Slavery is said to have been historically suboptimal because of the dead weight of slave patrols, etc. Guessing the tech sector has ideas about that!

wksmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Stooping lickspittles" is far too kind for these guys. Their stuff is a toxic legal smokescreen through which black appears white and vice-versa. Intellectual garbage, a legal disaster.

katillogical.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is. You should read the next phase of Project 2025, where women can't have their own credit or bank accounts and must have a male "sponsor" and approval to travel. Sounds like Sharia Law to me. MO wants to institute a pregnancy tracking system to make sure the women don't abort. Good times...

kimmasters.bsky.social•4 days ago

💯

moosewithablanket.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, it's been like this for over a decade. Like everything else with the Republicans, this has been worked on for decades to get us here.

junqueiraliv.bsky.social•4 days ago

It comes to mind the book from Stuart Stevens "It was all a lie".

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