{"id":2805,"date":"2026-07-02T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:39:27","slug":"law-professor-melts-down-after-birthright-citizenship-win-calls-for-canceling-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"Law Professor Melts Down After Birthright Citizenship Win, Calls For Canceling Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A law professor reacted to the Supreme Court ruling 6-3 to strike down President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on birthright citizenship Tuesday by arguing that any colleagues who opposed the decision should face \u201crepercussions\u201d for their \u201cparasitic\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n

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Legal academics flooded social media platforms after the Supreme Court handed down its defending birthright citizenship by 5 to 4, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh not finding that its enshrined in the 14th Amendment despite concurring on blocking Trump\u2019s order. Fordham University School of Law professor John Pfaff took to the microblogging app Bluesky on Tuesday to lambast those who disagreed with the majority\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere MUST be repercussions for the lawprofs who advanced such untenable arguments,\u201d Pfaff\u2019s post read. \u201cTheir behavior is \u2014 and I mean this literally, not dehumanizingly \u2014 parasitic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey exploit norms of collegiality and presumptions of integrity to advance trash,\u201d Pfaff wrote. \u201cWhich undermines the work of ALL of us.\u201d (RELATED: Ketanji Brown Jackson Uses Gen Z Slang In Birthright Citizenship Opinion)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf there are no costs to that \u2014 and only the upside to fancy dinners funded by antidemocratic oligarchs and the \u2018nonpartisan institutions\u2019 they have endowed \u2014 then we can only reward this behavior,\u201d the professor continued. \u201cEveryone involved in this canard should be frozen out of academic life until they recant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAcademics cannot simultaneously complain about the inability for facts and reality to drive policy while simultaneously refusing to confront the fabulists in our midst. Wurman et al do not just demean originalism or history. They demean ALL of us, by making ALL of us less credible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ilan Wurman, mentioned by Pfaff, is a constitutional scholar and law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. His extensive work on the citizenship clause was cited three times in Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 dissenting opinion \u2014 joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch \u2014 in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case.<\/p>\n

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Harvard Law School professor Adrianne Vermuele expressed outrage over Pfaff\u2019s comments. He told the Daily Caller, \u201cIt is intolerably absurd to try to \u2018cancel\u2019 Professor Wurman and others for making a novel argument that came within a whisker of winning at the Supreme Court, and that fundamentally changed the terms of debate; it seems to me that that is by definition excellent legal academic work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is even more absurd when one considers that legal academics who make specious arguments that the Supreme Court rejects 9-0, like the argument for the ballot disqualification of [President] Donald Trump, face no \u2018repercussions\u2019 whatsoever,\u201d Vermuele added.<\/p>\n

Wurman told the Caller, \u201cMy sense is that most academics find these modern-day inquisitioners to be more distasteful than my dissenting scholarship. Many have acknowledged to me, mostly privately but also sometimes publicly, that the birthright citizenship question is indeed a hard one from a textual and historical perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pfaff responded to his own posts Wednesday by saying he thought his language was \u201ctoo blunt.\u201d \u201cI stand by the idea, but I should have phrased it better. Academic freedom is the right to say what you want, without INSTITUTIONAL repercussions (generally). But it\u2019s not the right to speak w NO repercussions,\u201d Pfaff wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally, bad work is self-sanctioning: it gets ignored,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat, though, is not what happened here. An idea [with] no prior historical support gained enough traction after an aggressive post-EO campaign to nearly sway a SCOTUS majority. That sets a dangerous precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pfaff did not respond to the Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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