Academics as a group really lack the capacity for introspection to any useful degree.

Adrian Daub is a professor of German Literature, which qualifies him to be a commentator on constitutional law about as much as it makes him a nuclear physicist.

Now, if Biden could convince the Supreme Court that assassinating a political opponent was part of his official duties, this claim might make sense. Good luck with that.

Here's a reality: the average academic knows as much about constitutional law as the average garbage collector, because they've put exactly the same amount of effort into studying it. But having a PhD in hand and knowing they're smart (he's at Stanford, after all), they fancy themselves knowledgeable.