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2/12/25 National Security News and Commentary

2 months ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Adrian Vermeule |Isaac Saul |Matthew Continetti |River Page

Quotes of the Day:“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”– George Orwell, 1984"Long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure profits, and so it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans."– Bertrand Russell, 1950"Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another."– Plato1.
Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)

Oct 9, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Eric A. Posner |Adrian Vermeule |Stephen Dubner

POSNER: Something special happened, which was that for a long time, Congress was basically the leading government authority. The Courts were pretty passive. The President, with some important exceptions, basically did what Congress wanted him to do. And this was able to work maybe up until the Civil War or so, because basically the country was vast, people were anxious to make money and move westward and so forth. But in the 20th century, things got way too complicated.
Augustus: Two Traditions

Aug 8, 2024 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

The New Digest is pleased to present a guest post by Professor Simon Malloch of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. A preliminary note from Professor Malloch follows: “Professor Vermeule’s recent essay, Dominus Mundi, drew my attention to James Hankins’s article about Augustus for First Things.
Chevron By Any Other Name

Jun 28, 2024 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

Please, everyone, take a deep breath. Although the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has now overruled the Chevron decision on deference to agencies, there is much less to Loper Bright than meets the eye. Overheated praise and overheated condemnation of the decision both miss the mark.
Tradition as a Freestanding Source of Law

Jun 25, 2024 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

It very much looks as though the originalist movement is struggling with basic questions of method. (See the multiple concurrences, mostly solo concurrences, by originalist Justices pondering method in two recent decisions, United States v. Rahimi and Vidal v. Elster).
Contra Nemo Iudex in Sua Causa: The Limits of Impartiality

May 6, 2024 | yalelawjournal.org | Adrian Vermeule

NUMBER 2 November 2012 314-521 Contra Nemo Iudex in Sua Causa: The Limits of Impartiality
Why I Lost Interest in the Liberalism Debate

Feb 3, 2024 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

Regent Street, London, 2023. The New Digest is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I thought I’d explain briefly why I have recently moved away from writing about the debate over liberalism in political theory and political theology, in which I participated vigorously from about 2017-2021 (for example, here, here, here, here and here).
The Non-Originalist Decision That May Save Trump

Dec 23, 2023 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

The goddess Nemesis has afflicted the Republic with law professors bearing novelties, thereby calling the hubris of individuals into service to punish the collective hubris of our elite legal class. Two of those law professors, William Baude and Michael Paulsen, generated a theory about Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that was recently adopted by the Colorado Supreme Court, and that if adopted more widely threatens to ignite a constitutional crisis.
The Rule of Law Without Separation of Powers

Sep 19, 2023 | thenewdigest.substack.com | Adrian Vermeule

ShareAmong theorists of legal liberalism, a common assumption is that the rule of law, rightly understood, entails some version of the separation of powers — especially the separation of adjudication from the making or enforcement of law. The Stanford Encyclopedia entry on the rule of law, written by Jeremy Waldron, says a procedural requirement of the rule of law is that “there must be courts and there must be judges whose independence of the other branches of government is guaranteed.
The Supreme Court’s transgender revolution is warping the law

Aug 22, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Adrian Vermeule

In 2020 Idaho enacted the Fairness in Womens’ Sports Act which barred biological males from participating in women’s sports. Last week, a federal court of appeals covering Idaho, California and other western states, and long a font of progressive innovation, declared the law unconstitutional on equality grounds.