ultimately all wurman has to fall back on is an appeal to authority and to credentials. it is demonstrative of how *he* does not care about the facts as such, and is in this game as a way to burnish himself and raise his profile

April 09, 2026 - 16:09 UTC

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an aspiring Turley
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Also noteworthy he combines the content of the topic (what constitutes birthright citizenship) with the mechanism of altering it (an EO), glossing over that these are two distinct matters.

Neither is independently defensible so he figures he’ll throw them in the blender to only defend one thing.
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Step 1: Make outlandish claims to gain noteriety

Step 2: Use that notoriety as the basis for your authority
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Wild how everyone calling him on his disingenuous sea-lioning from the very beginning, and in the faces of the very serious Law Arguer Types, was proven 100% right.
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Wurman and Vermeule are prominent authorities on this in sorta the same way Bill O'Reilly is a prominent historian.
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Pure degeneracy.
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"At least seven prominent law professors have now said Wurman is a son of a bitch and that they had sexual relations with his wife."
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"Philip Hamburger" sounds suspiciously like he was naming things he could see as he was writing
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Was a vermeule crawling on it?
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So there was a screwdriver nearby?
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Well, John Eastman will eventually need to be replaced as "chief clever bullshitter in law"
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My alma mater employs him. For shame UMN, for shame!
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can't believe you're discounting the legal knowledge of...

*squints to read list*

Phil Hamburger
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calling the esteemed offices of Hamburger, Hot Dog, Pizza, and Nachos PLLC to see if they're willing to stand by their orde...opinion
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And vermeule outright rejects wurman's methodological framework, so that's some lawyer's accounting.
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"At least 7 prominent law professors say Wurman is an embarrassment to their profession and should have his tenure revoked immediately."
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He’s a real self-sucking perpetual motion machine.
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This is the same way creationism works. They claim they're against credentialism and elitism among prominent scientists. Then they find one 75 year old electronic engineer to say biological evolution isn't real, and go "SEE? He has a PhD" then they ignore 100,000 PhD biologists who support evolution
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the ol' conspiracist two-step: "you cant trust the experts [derogatory] ... you can trust this guy because hes an expert [laudatory]"
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So Native American should start deporting all of us
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This is why I resent the folks who said we had to respect his nonsense from the start with good faith. It never was about the history.
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I mean, its a model we saw emerge during Covid, and it proved to be effective, so why not.

I really wish more folks read/watched Merchants of Doubt.
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and the authority is... Vermeule's delirium on Roman adoption and the US Constitution 😂
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influencer behavior
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I desperately need someone to ask Wurman when his father got naturalized and if he considered his childhood self to be a citizen prior to that date. Unless his father was fast tracked for some reason—I don’t know anyone who got citizenship within a couple years of immigrating.
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I should correct that—neither parent would have been a US citizen prior to immigration. Not just his father.
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I think it's potentially valuable to see this as part of the broader program to appeal to a return to "meritocracy", which is essentially a desire to return to the primacy of authority of a very specific group of people
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There are 9,343 full time law professors in the United States. I'm worried Wutman doesn't understand what "significance" means (among other things)
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