Supreme Betrayal:  How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America

Constitutionalism After Trump Part One


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If we manage to extricate ourselves from our current constitutional plight, what might things look like? Or, alternatively, what sorts of constitutionally inflected policies should Democrats offer as part of their political effort to defeat Trumpism? We argue pretty forcefully against what we call “restorationism,” a program that would simply reinstitute the constitutional agenda that MAGA constitutionalism rejects. This episode focuses on the role that skepticism about expertise plays in MAGA constitutionalism. After describing how that skepticism is tied to the extremely strong theory of the unitary executive that the Trump administration advances, we offer some thoughts about how progressive policies—particularly with respect to the design of the institutions of the administrative state—could combine some degree of justified skepticism with greater popular participation in lawmakng in ways that some MAGA voters as well as many progressives might find appealing.
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Supreme Betrayal:  How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed AmericaBy Mark Tushnet, Louis Michael Seidman

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