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27 Jun 2008, 8:02 pm
Jack RakovePicking up on Sandy Levinson's and Mark Tushnet's recent postings, and drawing on my own working life as a "real historian" with more than a passing interest in originalism, I asked the other Jack to add a posting of my own on Heller. [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]
13 Aug 2019, 2:48 pm
For the symposium on Lawrence Lessig, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2019).I am grateful to Jack Balkin and the Balkinization blog for the careful and powerful collection of review essays based on my book Fidelity & Constraint (2019). [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 8:15 am
(We never want to be too reductive, but Levinson’s invocation of “motivated reasoning” certainly seems relevant here.) [read post]
15 May 2017, 11:02 am
However, as I noted in a previous post, constitutional crisis refers to something different: A constitutional crisis occurs when there is a serious danger that the Constitution is about to fail at its central task of keeping disagreement within the boundaries of ordinary politics instead of breaking down into lawlessness, anarchy, violence, or civil war.As Sandy Levinson and I have explained, there are three types of constitutional crises. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
In 1998, when Sandy Levinson and I wrote about the constitutional canon, we identified three basic kinds of canons. [read post]
13 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]
30 Nov 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable onthe Second Amendment, 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]
14 May 2020, 10:00 am
Buckley's American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020).In our recent book, Democracy and Dysfunction, Sandy Levinson (writing in 2015) proposed that if Donald Trump won the 2016 election, California and other western states might break away and form a nation of Pacifica. [read post]
11 May 2020, 10:00 am
But it also made intellectual sense to sacrifice some attention to those who ultimately had less effect in shaping the Constitution of the 1830s in order to adequately develop the story of the white-male-supremacists’ campaign for herrenvolk democracy (a term revived by Sandy Levinson here). [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:21 pm
Also, at Balkinization, Sandy Levinson writes a post titled Life In A Constitutional Dictatorship: It is now crystal clear that Obama does not represent a true repudiation of the Bush Administration, but, rather, a (somewhat) kindler and gentler version of its claims vis-a-vis presidential power and what is defined by the White House as "national security. [read post]
23 Feb 2013, 6:24 am
For the Symposium on James E. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 6:30 am
This was the plan but the whole undertaking was accompanied by an understanding that the participants (David Rasmussen, Ken Baynes, Andrew Koppelman and Rainer Forst in the first, Karl Klare, Steve Winter, Dennis Davis, and David Dyzenhaus in the second, Dieter Grimm, Sandy Levinson, Linda McClain, Jim Fleming and Oliver Gerstenberg in the third, and Rosalind Dixon, Alessandro Ferrara and Neil Walker in the fourth) were free to cross lanes, so as to engender a lively open… [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 8:00 am
Article V, because it requires two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states, is, as Sandy Levinson has put it, functionally dead. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 8:00 am
As Sandy Levinson puts it, a rising constitutional zeitgeist was already well in existence by the 1780s. [read post]
22 May 2020, 6:30 am
Sandy Levinson’s classic work, Constitutional Faith, does so with immense clarity, laying much of the groundwork for future studies on the topic. [read post]
2 Apr 2023, 6:18 pm
For a great many Senior Professors I know (think of my friend Sandy Levinson), almost any idea can interest us if conveyed with appropriate enthusiasm and context. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Public Memory and Public Monuments, 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]
17 May 2023, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Constitutional Crises, 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]
4 Dec 2020, 11:41 am
Here, as Sandy Levinson, Robert Dahl and other scholars have pointed out for years, many changes can be rung by a properly assertive president. [read post]
