29 'Originalists Against Trump' oppose his election; well-known conservative profs are among them
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Twenty-nine law professors and lawyers have proclaimed themselves “originalists against Trump” and signed a statement opposing his election.
The statement says Trump has shown himself to be “indifferent or hostile to the Constitution’s basic features—including a government of limited powers, an independent judiciary, religious liberty, freedom of speech, and due process of law.” The statement also says the group does not trust that Trump will nominate Supreme Court nominees from the lists he has publicized.
Among those signing the statement are Northwestern University law professor Steven Calabresi, one of the founders of the Federalist Society, and law professor Richard Epstein of the New York University and the University of Chicago law schools, report the Washington Post and Fortune.
Also signing the statement are Volokh Conspiracy bloggers Ilya Somin of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler and retired Temple University law professor David Post. “A GOP reconfigured in the image of Trumpist big-government nationalism would have little use for constitutional limits on government power,” Somin writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
