{"id":181770,"date":"2016-03-21T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/21\/worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:25:00","slug":"worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/21\/worst-constitutional-law-professor-ever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon announcing Obama&#8217;s nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme court, they tweeted that he would ignore the Constitution of the United States of America:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Merrick Garland would take no chances that someone who murdered innocent Americans might go free on a technicality.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCOTUSnominee?src=hash\">#SCOTUSnominee<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/710121883870568449\">March 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those &#8220;Technicalities&#8221; are the bill of rights, and their comment reflects that Garland is positively dismissive about the due process rights of defendants.<\/p>\n<p>I do understand political realities, but the idea that any President would try to trumpet the willingness of a nominee for Supreme Court justice to ignore the Constitution is truly awful. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/coreyrobin.com\/2016\/03\/19\/were-still-in-nixonland-20-theses-about-the-state-of-politics-today\/\">Cory Robin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon announcing Obama&#8217;s nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme court, they tweeted that he would ignore the Constitution of the United States of America: &#8220;Merrick Garland would take no chances that someone who murdered innocent Americans might go free on a technicality.&#8221; \u2014@POTUS #SCOTUSnominee \u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 16, 2016 Those &#8220;Technicalities&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,969,972,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-evil","category-justice","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}