BTL:Calls Grow for Government to Account for "Mistreatment" of Accused WikiLeaks Source Br (tags)
Interview with Bruce Ackerman, Yale law professor, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
US law schools faculty members finally waking up! (tags)
Previous protests were mostly by individual law professors. The two letters show that US law school faculty members are finally finding their voice!
Legitimizing Permanent Occupation of Iraq (tags)
Washington plans to stay
BTL:Supreme Court Decision in Guantanamo Detainee Case Could Rein in... (tags)
...Unilateral Presidential Power ~ Interview with Bruce Ackerman, constitutional law professor at Yale University, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Boxer Researches "Impeachable Offence" (tags)
Boxer issued the following release about President Bush's recent admission that he has personally authorized domestic surveillance without a court order. She sent the referenced letter to four presidential scholars, asking for their input: * Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School * Bruce Ackerman, Yale University * Susan Low Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center * Michael Gerhardt, College of William and Mary School of Law
BTL:Congress Ignores Major Flaws in U.S. Electoral System... (tags)
...Including Partisanship Administration of Voter Registration and Ballot Count ~ Interview with Bruce Ackerman, Yale University professor of constitutional law, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
In their own ways, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, provided the institutional frameworks for middle-class growth. Now, radical ideas are necessary to prevent a return to feudalism.
COUPWATCH: The Court Packs Itself (tags)
No Justice, No Justices--it's not just a wild-eyed idea from the fringe. After Lincoln's assassination the Congress blocked Andrew Johnson's threat to consolidate the conservative wing of the Court, preventing the replacement of retiring justices by the man made President by John Wilkes Booth. A similar logic applies today, argues distinguished political philosopher and constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman (author of "Social Justice in the Liberal State") in an article published in The American Prospect.