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7 Jan 2014, 10:44 am
As Sandy Levinson reminds us from time to time, Americans have difficulty imagining alternatives to the ways in which politics functions in the United States. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 10:14 am
Trumpism can be prevented only if fundamental changes are made to the constitutional order, whether those changes be, as Sandy Levinson insists, to the constitutional text, or as I believe, to the way that constitutional politics functions.Alas, the normal politics that generated an abnormal president also highlight why very few governing officials have an incentive to change fundamental features of the constitutional order. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 10:25 am
" Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson both take issue with this, emphasizing the decidedly inegalitarian realities of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as of the religious and philosophical traditions underpinning the principle of reciprocity. [read post]
21 Dec 2012, 12:44 pm
University of Texas School of Law, January 24-26, 2013Conference Schedule (tentative)Thursday, 5:30-7:30pm (Law School Auditorium): The State of the Union, Evan Smith (moderator) Mickey Edwards, Bill Galston, Sandy Levinson, Tom Mann, Norman Ornstein, Alan Wolfe Friday (Eidman Courtroom) 9:15-10:45am: Compromise and governance, Elizabeth Sherman (moderator)… [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 10:25 am
A few days ago, Professor Sandy Levinson argued on this blog that to believe the ERA would pass, one would have to believe Congress has no power to set time limits for amendments and that states cannot rescind their ratifications. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Constitutional Faith and Veneration, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
18 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Sandy Levinson got it just right in saying that presumably one can teach as much concerning analysis of legal systems by talking about sports as by talking about the Dormant Commerce Clause – but for many students talking about sports is a whole lot more fun. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 6:30 am
Sandy Levinson reminds us that Mark Graber has ar [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 5:05 am
" Sandy Levinson and I wrote an article about constitutional crises in 2009. [read post]
29 May 2012, 8:14 am
Classic Sandy: bracing and bright. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
I invite anyone on this list to join the discussion there.The heart of Mark's post is as follows:For the past year, my friend and co-blogger Sandy Levinson has called for a political movement for constitutional reform. [read post]
24 Dec 2006, 12:38 pm
In the past year and a half, I have added the blogging team that Jack established and that Sandy Levinson, Marty Lederman and so many others have enlivened, to my own friends, and beyond them, a circle of readers - some crotchety, some exasperating, and others who offer essential moral support (and even a keen editorial eye and blue pencil, which must be what every poster hopes for). [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 7:43 pm
My dear friend Sandy Levinson posts briefly on this over at Balkinization, and comments on a speech by Jack Goldsmith at University of Texas: I note that Jack Goldsmith gave an excellent talk at the University of Texas last week making the argument that in almost all fundamental respects the Obama Administration is continuing the “anti– and counter-terrorism” policies of the “second Bush Administration,” i.e., the second-term Bush presidency… [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 6:25 am
I think Sandy is right. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 7:24 pm
My dear friend Sandy Levinson posts briefly on this over at Balkinization, and comments on a speech by Jack Goldsmith at University of Texas: I note that Jack Goldsmith gave an excellent talk at the University of Texas last week making the argument that in almost all fundamental respects the Obama Administration is continuing the “anti– and counter-terrorism” policies of the “second Bush Administration,” i.e., the second-term Bush presidency that freed… [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 3:25 am
Sandy Levinson's excellent Our Undemocratic Constitution received the same award in the Government & Political Science category, I am pleased to report, so Balkinization contributors were well represented.You will find our books worth reading if you care about the state of our political and legal system. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 2:18 pm
At Balkinization, Sandy Levinson discusses judicial doctrine and Chief Justice Roberts's "acerbic" dissent in the Abdul-Kabir and Brewer capital cases here. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 8:34 am
James Read, the author of the new University of Kansas Press book on John Calhoun, Majority Rule versus Consensus, has asked me to post the following comment, which I am happy to do:I would like to follow up on Sandy Levinson's post, "Does Calhoun still live? [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 4:08 pm
Perhaps, mirroring Sandy Levinson, I should begin the following countdown: 723 days until anyone presently in serious contention for the Democratic nomination makes a serious effort to govern. [read post]
23 Mar 2008, 9:35 am
Obviously, many conservative arguments (made sincerely, I do not doubt) were for a return to the older, "correct" readings of the Constitution, but the actual effect of the practice was an exercise in living Constitutionalism.You can read Teles' book as a partial critique of Sandy Levinson's and my theory of partisan entrenchment, which argues that constitutional change comes from successive appointments in the federal judiciary, reflecting the vector sum of… [read post]
