Leonid Sirota
Legal academic; mostly Canadian and comparative public law. Associate Professor @unirdg-law.bsky.social; Senior Fellow, Macdonald Laurier Institute; blogger, doubleaspect.blog
- Jaw dropping. Also NB apparent serious breach of Denis Healey’s Law of Holes*.
- An extraordinary case where authorities relied upon by counsel were simply "false". (I still can't quite believe it) www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/07/w...
- Replace "anti-Semites" with "MAGA minions" and Sartre could have been talking about today.
- All attempts to make nationalism something more than the organization of sentiment, an empire of feeling, requires ransacking the intellectual supply depot for barbed wire or steel bars that can be constructed to contain it, Jonah Goldberg writes: thedispatch.com/newsletter/g...
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- My annual post on why May Day should be Victims of Communism Day: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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- Moreover, if the 'wasted' vote idea hinges on representation, and in MMP or other PR-type systems there are representatives elected who NO ONE directly voted for, there is every bit the normative objection at stake. But MY point is the objection is always silly, regardless.
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- But in BOTH types of systems, certain parties are exercise OUTSIZED power. A party that wins 15% of the seats but joins a governing coalition with one that won 40% of the seats is arguably exercising a more DISproportionate amount of power than a party governing with 42% of the national vote share.
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- Read the full story and ask yourself: Is free speech still free? thedispatch.com/article/euro...
- There has been a failure of introspection on the left—a failure to understand why so many Democrat-run states and cities have become how-not-to case studies, Jesse Singal writes: thedispatch.com/article/demo...
- My thoughts on new NCLA case brought against Trump's IEEPA China tariffs. This case is distinct from one Liberty Justice Center and I plan to bring against much more sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs, but raises some similar issues: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
- There’s a lot to be said for precedented times
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- "they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:
- Not an original thought, but if you ever wondered if procedural due process is a sort of hollow right, we have now been instructed fully why it exists and people care about it. The Government is just scooping up basically random people and putting them in foreign prisons.
- Summum bonum est!
- I'm delighted that my new article "In Praise of Common Good Constitutionalism: the Case for the Vermeulean Executive" has now been published in the Annals of the Academia Aquinensis of Budapest. Full text available here: tinyurl.com/2ean3xwn
- Salus facetiae suprema lex esto !
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- I'm delighted that my new article "In Praise of Common Good Constitutionalism: the Case for the Vermeulean Executive" has now been published in the Annals of the Academia Aquinensis of Budapest. Full text available here: tinyurl.com/2ean3xwn
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- In his suave deprecation of due process as a value, “Professor Vermeule is not speaking in the abstract. He is, in his motte-and-bailey, I’m-not-saying-it-but-I’m-also-not-not-saying-it fashion, making a point about current events.” [Leonid Sirota @doubleaspect.blog]
- No swearing in New Brunswick Pubs by order of the Government: The drafters of Bill 17 included a restatement of a regulation requiring the holder of a liquor license to ensure no one is using vulgar or profane language in their establishment. #nbpoli #cdnlaw
- I look forward to examining the constitutionality of this provision regarding freedom of expression as it relates to the condition of holding a liquor license.
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- Herewith a primer on the rules of government formation in Canada: journals.library.ualberta.ca/constitution...
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- Not quite 'secret ministries' but this is scary enough
- The latest from @markpmancini.bsky.social and yours truly, in the National Post, on the preposterous Henry VIII clause in BC's just-introduced Economci Stabilization Bill. We didn't write the headline, but it sums things up nicely. The clause is an outrage against democracy and needs to go.
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- It’s easy to dismiss the significance of material abundance when we have it—it’s hard to dismiss its significance when we lose it
- Dr Leonid Sirota (@doubleaspect.blog) writes about a petition calling on Canada to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship in The Line.
- It's the anniversary of Stalin's death, so celebrate accordingly.
- Good time to reup my piece on how Trump's awful tariffs can be challenged under the nondelegation and major questions doctrines: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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- Bravo to @doubleaspect.blog for this eloquent, intelligent, morally serious post about the incoherent, puerile, and deeply unserious petition to Parliament to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship. Read it.
- New post: the petition demanding that Elon Musk be deprived of his Canadian citizenship is a disgrace. The tendency it represents, if unchecked, would lead Canada to become just what Canadians abhor in the United States. doubleaspect.blog/2025/02/25/a...
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- We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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View full threadGood lord, almost 10K likes and reposts in support of revoking citizenship from someone who obtained it legally (by birth). Never mind the law or the Charter, he's a terrible person so eff him. How is this different from Trumpism? Either the rule of law is for everyone, or it's not the rule of law.
- Personally, I can't stand the man either. But I thought we were better than this. If it was wrong for the Harper government to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists, it's no better when a mob wants to do it to someone who hasn't even been tried, much less convicted. bsky.app/profile/doub...
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