“Constitution in Exile” a red herring…

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


I’ve been trying to follow the Orin Kerr/David Bernstein smackdown of that Jeffrey Rosen article over the weekend, and I have to say, I just don’t get it. Fine, so maybe the “Constitution in Exile” movement isn’t really a “movement”. Who cares!? The core issue at stake here seems to be whether or not there are in fact judges who, if elected to the Supreme Court, will go about actively chipping away at post-New Deal era constitutional doctrine. Is Bush planning to nominate justices who want to gut minimum wage laws, for instance, yes or no? Yes? Or no? The answer here is mostly independent of whether or not such judges are all connected to some shadowy conspiracy being run out of AEI or not, and it’s very unrelated to the question of whether Cass Sunstein is a “moderate” or not.

UPDATE: Okay, I cede the floor to the gentleman from the Decemberist.

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate