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14 Nov 2020, 1:58 pm by Sandy Levinson
  (Recall that I remain upset with Bernie Sanders for posturing as a "revolutionary" without once ever informing his younger supporters that significant constitutional reform is a predicate condition to achieving the reforms that he advocated.) [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:06 am by Jane Turner
Before the 2016 election, Gill wanted to run as “a delegate for Bernie Sanders,” and talked to her supervisor, who spoke to his superior, and relayed back that a delegate did not run afoul of the Hatch Act. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
Sanders when invalidating Georgia’s “county unit” system. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Ashoka Mukpo
 On June 1, he heard that people were planning to peacefully gather at Lafayette Square, a small park directly across from the White House, and decided to join them. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
In the post-war South, white southern Democrats used felony disenfranchisement to deny those rights, invoking historical similarities between the legal statuses of slaves and convicts as justification.Today, according to a report by the Sentencing Project, nearly 40% of the 6.1 million people disenfranchised by a felony conviction are black.Despite the troubled association of felony disenfranchisement laws with racial discrimination, courts, like the 2002 Florida court, generally have… [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 10:06 am by Sandy Levinson
 Though perhaps a Sanders presidency would foment a genuine revolution when his gullible admirers come to realize that not even Bernie can turn the sow's ear that is our constitutional system into a silk purse.Needless to say, I don't expect anything to come of such criticisms, not only because we inexplicably venerate a truly flawed Constitution, but also because Article V, coupled with our general distrust of popular democracy, makes the idea of a constitutional… [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 11:55 am by Eugene Volokh
Or, if a court were to uphold President Trump's Executive Order, would that decision be a powerful precedent in favor of the constitutionality of the hypothetical order from President Sanders? [read post]
26 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders responded that the bill “confiscates every American’s private health insurance” and that “America will never be a socialist country. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 9:56 am by Eugene Volokh
And of course many Americans are understandably upset when tax exemptions benefit speech that is hateful towards blacks or whites or Jews or Muslims or evangelical Christ [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 7:00 am by Sandy Levinson
 Surely one reason that Bernie Sanders is so relatively inept in talking about race, for example, is that he represents a stunningly white (95%) state, not to mention one with the lowest fertility rate and an ever-increasing percentage of older folks who are, frankly, unlikely to contribute much to the economy. [read post]
15 May 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Trump is the second Republican president since 2000 to win the White House while losing the popular vote—and, unlike George W. [read post]
9 May 2019, 2:12 pm by Andrew Hamm
Sanders, “holding the Constitution’s command that the House of Representatives be elected ‘by the People’ requires that congressional districts be equal in population” New York Times v. [read post]