Adrian Vermeule

@Vermeullarmine

Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School. “There is a day to come which will reverse the confident judgments of men.“

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    3 Jan 2018

    “Quand les libéraux sont au pouvoir, nous leur demandons la liberté, parce que c’est leur principe; et, quand nous sommes au pouvoir, nous la leur refusons, parce que c’est le nôtre.” — Montalembert, putting words in the mouth of Louis Veuillot

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  2. 1 hour ago

    I suspect that within a few years, Remainers in the UK in will ask each other “how could we have been so short-sighted as to overreach and provoke an irresistible popular backlash”? My speculation about the mechanism:

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    2 hours ago

    Turns out that your grave isn’t secure if you’re one of those maniacs that saved a Christian country from the authors of diabolical persecutions of Christians, which in a few years had already martyrized more people than the Romans in centuries.

    “From the malice of [the socialists], the grave was no hiding place, the house of mourning no sanctuary” - TB Macaulay
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  4. 2 hours ago

    American courts often strive for unanimity, papering over internal dissenting views, when arrogating powers to themselves as an institution. Rarely do they consider that a non-unanimous vote might actually strengthen public confidence in the decision.

    One very interesting feature of the judgment is its unanimity. I thought it was likely that Lord Reed would dissent, given his publicly-stated reluctance to intervene in political matters. Sales is also far from being a "judicial activist". And Reed is the next President...
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    3 hours ago

    Excellent thread. Either you support greatly expanding nuclear power, or you don't believe in doing something about climate change. It really is either/or. And for a lot of climate activists, it's "or."

    Lets be quite clear: Anyone proposing any climate solution without nuclear...is basically proposing a solution that would leave BILLIONS in poverty and without…
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  6. 3 hours ago

    Instagram has shut down because of the sheer volume of UK law students scrubbing their social media

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  7. 4 hours ago

    Exhuming 20 monks! Another great victory for democracy

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    But there are multiple levels of lunacy here. Because you can't make a law targeting an individual, the ruling says that anyone who didn't die in the civil war must be dug up from the . This includes digging up 20 monks.
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    5 hours ago

    A win (indicating a coming bigger win) for Poland today.

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    4 hours ago

    Superb profile of Vladimir Putin by former US diplomat . One of the few Westerners who actually met Putin, and got to know him, before picking up the pen. ps. 99% of Anglo-American biographies of Putin are pure garbage. Save your money/time.

    "I've heard people in St. Petersburg say, 'the KGB was our Harvard.'" Must-read on Putin from a former US diplomat, in one of the few Western outlets that still publishes nuanced analysis on Russia. …
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    6 hours ago

    Paid judicial attack ads come to the UK. From an institutional perspective, this may be today’s true defining moment.

    You only have to look at the background of these Supreme Court judges to realise that today's judgment was never in doubt. Wedded to the European Union! 🇪🇺
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    So "democratic" that you prohibit the body from being buried in the family crypt in Madrid's Cathedral for fear of attracting crowds.

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  12. 4 hours ago

    A great victory for democracy

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  14. 5 hours ago

    Contest: generate a theory on which disinterring the bodies of one’s political enemies, via court order, is a ‘great victory for democracy.’ The winner will immediately be awarded tenure and become an officially approved intellectual.

    Court backing for Franco exhumation a 'great victory for democracy': Spain PM
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    12 hours ago

    What the hell is “too expensive” in this context?

    Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report
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  16. 5 hours ago

    “From the malice of [the socialists], the grave was no hiding place, the house of mourning no sanctuary” - TB Macaulay

    Spain Supreme Court approves exhumation of Franco's remains
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    23 hours ago

    The fact that impeaching Bush over launching a war on false pretenses was considered crazy and a nonstarter, whereas impeaching Trump over anonymous rumors is considered obviously correct, should make you suspicious of how the media treats the whole impeachment question

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  18. 6 hours ago

    I tried and tried to get them to read ‘Leopards in the Temple,’ but no

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  19. 6 hours ago

    What a foolish notion. Attacking prorogation decisions in court now becomes a standard political tool, available to all parties. “It arises in circumstances which have never arisen before and are unlikely ever to arise again. It is a “one off”.”

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    6 hours ago

    You cannot dramatically increase the powers of an institution whilst preserving its appointment process from political control.

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    6 hours ago

    How many British lawyers want to risk an American style confirmation hearing? Where all your Oxbridge college shenanigans get a full airing?

    It is institutionally disastrous for a barely decade old UK Supreme Court to try+follow the US example of politicised courts. The old British model of an impartial & apolitical judge has been killed by Remoaner fanaticism. Modern UK establishment has no sense of self preservation
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