The Constitutionalist’s Regular Contributor, Laura K. Field, distills the essence of her series of political warnings in this new piece in The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/163939/pro-trump-professors-plot-authoritarian-america Continue reading The Emerging Threat
This post by Paul Campus at Lawyers, Guns & Money captures something important about the asymmetric expectations that commentators tend to have of the two parties. Campos looks at the results of the 2020 election demographically, and shows how much extra credit Republicans get when they manage to eke out support from any minority. He points out how Hispanic/Latino men voted for Biden over Trump by a 2-1 margin. White men voted for Trump by the same margin. Everyone acknowledges that the latter indicates overwhelming support for Trump. But pundits also take the former as “great” support for… Trump! Campos’ … Continue reading Recommended Reading
I’ve been thinking more than usual about the filibuster lately, for a lot of obvious reasons. I think one of the things at the root of current political unrest is persistent government failure and obstructionism. The US Constitution already makes it pretty difficult to pass legislation, but the filibuster makes it that much more so. Does abolishing the filibuster makes sense from a constitutional perspective, given the fact that it has been part of normal legislative procedure for so long now? What implications would abolishing it have for bi-partisanship? And how much does the origin and history of the filibuster … Continue reading On nuking (or reforming) the filibuster
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I’m just now getting the chance to look at my colleague Ben Kleinerman’s recent comments on the Claremont Insitute from earlier in the week (partly in response to this post of mine). I think Ben is wrong to see the … Continue reading No, the Claremont Institute Has Not Turned a Corner
