Extract from: William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs' Grounding Originalism

Extract from: William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Grounding Originalism, 113(6) Nw. U. L. Rev. (forth. circa Apr. 2019):

Consider, for instance, the many briefs spent discussing history and original meaning in the recent litigation over the [Foreign] Emoluments Clause.^[196] Indeed, at one point an ally of the plaintiffs believed that she had uncovered documents in the National Archives refuting the work of a leading originalist scholar of the Clause.^[197] The purported discovery was widely and excitedly discussed, because it was thought to address an important argument.^[198] And when the originalist scholar produced extensive documentary evidence and expert opinion undermining the discovery’s significance,^[199] it worked: most of those who had challenged him on that particular point reconsidered and confessed error,^[200] even as they continued to press originalist arguments on other points. 

Id. at 32 & n.196, 33 & n.199 (citing Tillman’s Declaration in CREW v. Trump and Tillman’s Work-in-Progress post on New Reform Club), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3324308>. 

196. See Seth Barrett Tillman, A Work in Progress: Select Bibliography of Court Filings and Other Sources Regarding the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses Cases, The New Reform Club (Feb. 28, 2018), https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-work-in-progress-select-bibliography.html (citing sources).

197. See Brianne J. Gorod, What Alexander Hamilton Really Said, Take Care Blog (July 6, 2017), https://takecareblog.com/blog/what-alexander-hamilton-really-said; Brianne J. Gorod, A Little More on Alexander Hamilton and the Foreign Emoluments Clause, Take Care Blog (Aug. 1, 2017), https://takecareblog.com/blog/a-little-more-on-alexander-hamilton-and-the-foreign-emoluments-clause.

198. Jed Shugerman, Questions about the Emoluments Amicus Brief on Behalf of Trump, Shugerblog (Aug. 31, 2017), https://shugerblog.com/2017/08/31/questions-about-the-emoluments-amicus-brief-on-behalf-of-trump-and-its-use-and-misuse-of-historical-sources/; Gautham Rao & Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Presidential Revisionism, Slate (July 17, 2017), http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/the_new_york_times_published_the_flimsiest_defense_of_trump_s_apparent_emoluments.html.

199. Seth Barrett Tillman, The Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated (Sept. 21, 2017) (unpublished manuscript), http://ssrn.com/abstract=3037107 [prior hypertext link corrected by Tillman]. [Tillman adding alternative citation to the same soruce: Declaration of Seth Barrett Tillman, Lecturer (Exhibit D), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae Judicial Education Project’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017) (Daniels, J.), ECF No. 85-5, 2017 WL 7795997, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3037107.]

200. Jed Shugerman, An Apology to Tillman and Blackman, Shugerblog (Sep. 23, 2017), https://shugerblog.com/2017/09/23/an-apology-to-tillman-and-blackman/; Jed Shugerman et al., Our Correction and Apology to Professor Tillman, Shugerblog (Oct. 3, 2017), https://shugerblog.com/2017/10/03/our-correction-and-apology-to-professor-tillman/.

Citation:

Seth Barrett Tillman, Extract from: William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs’ Grounding Originalism, New Reform Club  (Jan. 28, 2019, 1:18 PM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2019/01/extract-from-william-baude-stephen-e.html>. 


But see Norm Eisen (@normeisen), Twitter (July 6, 2017, 7:28 AM), https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/882969451557249025 [https://perma.cc/GBY3-HRK4] (“[D]evastating @BrianneGorod rebuttal of ‘evidence’ for fringe claim that emoluments clause doesn[’]t apply to POTUS” (emphasis added)); 

But see Glenda Gilmore (@GilmoreGlenda), Twitter (Aug. 31, 2017, 4:53 AM), https://twitter.com/GilmoreGlenda/status/903224236843704320 [https://perma.cc/53TX-VDJ5] (“Trump lawyers use 1 Hamilton letter for argument; bury 2nd Hamilton letter to the contrary written same day. Historians know better.” (emphasis added)); 

But see Joshua Matz, Foreign Emoluments, Alexander Hamilton & a Twitter Kerfuffle, Take Care (July 12, 2017), https://takecareblog.com/blog/foreign-emoluments-alexander-hamilton-and-a-twitter-kerfuffle [http://perma.cc/66Z7-VY76] (“It’s hardly an impressive defense to mislead so dramatically in the NYT but then say that it’s all okay, since a few years ago I had a footnote in a law review article alluding vaguely to this contrary material.” (emphasis added)); id. (noting that Tillman’s publications are “low-profile academic articles”); 

But see Jack Metzler (@SCOTUSPlaces), Twitter (Aug. 31, 2017, 8:29 AM), https://twitter.com/SCOTUSPlaces/status/903278565902491648 [https://perma.cc/43YD-2LYS] (“Tillman uses the document repeatedly when it suits him, and then misrepresents it as ‘nearly identical’ when it refutes his central point.” (emphasis added)); 

But see Mark Joseph Stern (@MJS_DC), Twitter (Aug. 1, 2017, 11:36 AM), https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/892454064532934658 (“@BrianneGorod went to the National Archives to debunk the claim that the Emoluments Clause doesn’t apply to Trump[.]” (emphasis added) (showing that the tweet was subsequently deleted with the link now indicating: “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”)); 

But see Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw), Twitter (July 6, 2017, 8:00 AM), https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/882977561986420736 [https://perma.cc/9PAF-BXDP] (“Read this devastating reply to the weird claim that Hamilton thought Presidents could accept Foreign Emoluments[.]” (emphasis added)); 

But see Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw), Twitter (July 13, 2017, 6:25 PM), https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/885671589542588416 (“From the ‘This Speaks For Itself’ Department: Foreign Emoluments, Alexander Hamilton & A Twitter Kerfuffle”); 

But see Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw), Twitter (Aug. 1, 2017, 8:00 AM), https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/892381453312503808 [https://perma.cc/W8VR-W4XW] (“A National Archives visit obliterates @SethBTillman’s thesis that [President] DJT isn’t covered by the Foreign Emoluments Clause” (emphasis added)); 

But see Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw), Twitter (Sept. 1, 2017, 7:20 PM), https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/903804726717841409 [https://perma.cc/GS65-VAYA] (“Another devastating critique of Tillmania by @jedshug[.]” (emphasis added)). 

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