Mark Tushnet is an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law.
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Mark Tushnet is an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law.
Constitutional crisis won’t be fixed by a few isolated reforms. We need to rethink the Constitution from the ground up.
Better procedures are unlikely to solve the problems of racial politics.
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