Bench Memos

More Dionne Confusion

In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne Jr. hallucinates about the threat posed by the phantom “Constitution in Exile movement”—that “judges appointed during the right’s ascendancy [will] be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority.”  I recently addressed Jeffrey Rosen’s similar piece (which Dionne quotes) here, and explained here that the real threat to democratic self-government would come from Obama appointments to the Court.

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