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23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am by JB
Sandy Levinson's and my theory of partisan entrenchment argues that Presidents generally attempt to install jurists who agree with their constitutional and policy positions on the issues most important to them. [read post]
3 Jan 2010, 7:16 pm by Mark Tushnet
As Sandy Levinson's posts (including the most recent) have suggested, when we think about the current administration and the Supreme Court, our thoughts almost inevitably turn to the mid-1930s. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 5:15 am by JB
What ails the system does not require a constitutional amendment (pace my dear friend Sandy Levinson). [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 5:48 am
At Balkinization, Sandy Levinson argues that Linda Greenhouse’s suggestion that the Court has effectively imposed a lower standard for ineffective assistance of counsel in death penalty appeals for veterans could be seen as a form of affirmative action. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 11:08 am
 To that extent, while I agree with Alito in marveling at some of the rather silly arguments on this question that have been made by serious people in serious publications, I do not think it is impossible or impermissible for serious people to ask serious questions in serious publications about these issues (Sandy Levinson being exhibit A here). [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 3:30 am
And surely if Sandy Levinson had been invited to write a chapter, more of this perspective would have been included.One might have expected more attention to recent battles in state constitutionalism in the volume especially, if only because progressives have ultimately prevailed in state courts with arguments the federal courts have thus far rejected. [read post]
19 Sep 2009, 7:03 am
Feldman, Michael Klarman, Alexander Keyssar, Sandy Levinson, and Mark Tushnet. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 8:30 am
Sandy Levinson responds to Paul Krugman's column blaming "our corporate-cash-dominated [political] system" for the stall on health care. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 12:01 am
  Update: For a post saying the exact opposite of everything I am saying here, see Sandy Levinson's thoughts here. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 11:00 am
That, in a nutshell, is the theme of this recent article by my former colleague Sandy Levinson. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 5:14 am
This issue ties into a subject that two bloggers on this site, Jack Balkin and Sandy Levinson, have written about: felon disenfranchisement laws. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 9:12 am
Here are some reasons we should care about this, some of them drawn specifically from Levinson and some from things that Al, Sandy, or I have written. [read post]
13 Jun 2009, 10:33 am
- Judge Frank Easterbrook Sandy Levinson discusses the issues I wrote about yesterday - the dissonance between the insistence by extreme conservatives that the individual 2nd Amendment rights discovered by the Roberts Court in Heller be incorporated into the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and their stated commitment to the New Federalism. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 11:35 pm by Belle Lettre
At the LSA, I attended the "Many Faces of Constitutionalism" panel, for which Sandy Levinson was the chair/discussant. [read post]
6 May 2009, 8:24 am
  Is it true, as Sandy Levinson has observed, that legal theory's raison d'etre is commonly thought to be the never-ending supply of "happy endings to legal dilemmas" and the solution of people's problems -- tidily and without disruptive remainder whenever possible? [read post]
1 May 2009, 6:10 pm
Nita Farahany has posted the following paper to SSRN: "Law and Behavioral Morality"  NOMOS LII: EVOLUTION AND MORALITY, Sandy Levinson, ed., 2009Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-03 NITA A. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 3:50 am
in the 1968 election.Contrast Ackerman's model with the model of change that Sandy Levinson and I have proposed. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 6:51 am
  However, Harcourt himself advocates the "legalize and regulate" approach since the necessity defense is just a way to "legalize and regulate," as we pointed out in the article, repeating a point made by Sandy Levinson several years ago. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 2:18 pm
Sandy Levinson noted that President Obama said to the CIA yesterday that: What makes the United States special and what makes you special is precisely the fact that we are willing to uphold our values and our ideals even when it’s hard, not just when it’s easy, even when we are afraid and under threat, not just when its expedient to do so.... [read post]