Ted Cruz publishes scholarly piece in Harvard Law Review, civilization comes to an end

I mean if right wing Senators have  brains, then does that mean that Dems have to have them too?  What will happen to Harry Reid?  Here.

This somewhat esoteric legal argument has incited The Daily Beast to suggest that Cruz is using a “dog whistle” to influence the conspiracy theory addled far right in a January 11, 2014 essay. It is one thing, the online magazine states, for someone like Cruz to tell people that the United Nations is threatening to take away peoples’ guns or enact some kind of climate change tax on the Rush Limbaugh Show or in a conservative magazine. It is incredibly sneaky of the senator to suggest that treaties could be used to violate states rights in the pages of a staid, establishment law journal.

Nick Rosenkranz, writing in The Volkh Conspiracy, has a more measured reaction, marveling how unusual it is for a sitting senator to write scholarly essays and doubly unusual to write one calling for limits on his own power.