In our second annual Living Constitution Lecture, Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island spoke about threats to our Constitution: inequalities in our justice and taxation systems, the damage done by torture memos, and other erosions to our Constitutional rights--and how to get them back.

Texas Chief Justice Tom Phillips, Linda Greenhouse writes, "suggests that very little will come of Caperton in the end." Greenhouse's analysis, which she attributes to Phillips' views, fundamentally mischaracterizes them, and consequently misses the mark on Caperton's larger implications.

Professor Hayward replied to my earlier blog post, and was somewhat dismissive of the Brennan Center research ...

Senator Durbin on the economic crisis....