- The core argument in this brief is so badly wrong that it's hard to come up with words to explain how wrong it is. Basically, Epstein's jumping off point is the well-settled rule that differences in language in a statute (or, in this case, amendment) imply differences of meaning. Therefore...
- NYU Law Prof. Richard Epstein has submitted his amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. He has no expertise in this area and has never done, as far as I know, any substantial work on the history of the common law dating back to early modern and pre-modern England.
