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3 Mar 2009, 6:05 am
(Sandy Levinson's post immediately below pointing out the antidemocratic difficulties created by the filibuster might suggest that Obama won't be able to pass anything. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 8:57 am
Sandy Levinson of this blog has also signed onto that proposal; however, in this op-ed Sandy has also argued for a different proposal that would feature fixed 18 year terms for the Justices.Here is the proposal for regularizing Supreme Court appointments:PROPOSAL I: REGULAR APPOINTMENTS TOTHE SUPREME COURTOne question to be considered is the prospect that as Justices retain power for extended lengths of time, appointments to the Court are made so infrequently as to… [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 5:09 pm
This is the title of Sandy Levinson's post, over at Balkinization, reacting to (the New York Times'  account and characterization of) Pope Benedict XVI's recent dealings with several formerly-schismatic Catholic bishops, including one who is clearly a loathesome Holocaust denier. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:11 am
Although the work was published in a series edited by Sandy Levinson, we hear very little of Constitutions as iron cages or, from my dismal perspective, problems of constitutional evil. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 7:58 am
Sandy Levinson has frequently criticized the gap between the election and inauguration as a poor example of constitutional design. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 10:16 am
(Credit Sandy Levinson for making this point in a colloquy with me at the GW Law Review conference a couple of weeks ago and more generally, for proposing numerous changes to Our Undemocratic Constitution.)One advantage to the current system is that it gives Senators and their staff an opportunity to consider the credentials of Cabinet nominees before holding confirmation hearings. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 7:12 pm
Sandy Levinson apparently agrees with the need for more-active moderators (perhaps drawn from the smartest and more-principled of the commentariat--he names, among others, Andrew Sullivan, Paul Krugman, Charles Krauthammer, and E.J. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 1:09 am
Why do people like me and Sandy Levinson keep talking about the Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt? [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 11:41 am
(Sandy Levinson discusses the article, too, nearby.) [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 6:55 am
Sandy Levinson and I have just posted our latest paper, Constitutional Crises, on SSRN. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 2:26 pm
TPM, Annals of Suspension TalkLeft, McCain’s Desperate Gamble Informed Comment, Palin’s Russian Roulette Dave Hoffman, Concurring Opinions, John McCain’s Unworkable Plan to Deregulate and Insure Our Way Out of the Crisis Thursday tristero, Hullabaloo, points us to this great video on McCain’s role in the Keating Five Sandy Levinson, Thoughts on John McCain as our constitutional dictator Crooks & Liars, McCain’s… [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 6:34 pm
Over at Balkanization, Sandy Levinson has some great posts about "constitutional minefields" in existing presidential (and vice presidential) selection processes that may not be able to handle (or handle in a democratically legitimate way) some unlikely-but-not-impossible contingencies in this election. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 7:19 pm
Sandy Levinson and others have, in recent years, been calling attention to what they regard as the Constitution's failures. [read post]
23 Aug 2008, 8:45 pm
Over at Balkinization, Sandy Levinson laments the comments of Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, who is quoted as as saying that "[Georgian accession to NATO] is what is going to happen now. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 7:32 pm
We read Stanley Fish's The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence and Sandy Levinson's Law as Literature. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 1:49 pm
o Sanford Levinson and Jack Balkin - Morton Horwitz and The Rule of Lawo Laura Kalman - Transformationso Bill Nelson - Who Should Judge Legal History: Lawyers or Historians? [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 9:53 am
Sandy Levinson has this to say on the book jacket: Cindy Skach's book on Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic is a treasure trove of insights not only about the politics of these two countries, [read post]