Background: Bruce Ackerman is one of those people. You know: Harvard, Yale Law, a long and fruitful career writing articles in the right upper-crust policy journals and books that invariably get published via university presses. A fellow at that intersection of academia and Beltway culture, in other words: and my, but did he not enjoy the Bush administration! All the wrong sort were around that decade, apparently.
Seriously, take a look:
- Bruce Ackerman, February 8, 2001. Title is “Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup:”
Succumbing to the crudest partisan temptations, the Republicans managed to get their man into the White House, but at grave cost to the nation’s ideals and institutions. It will take a decade or more to measure the long-term damage of this electoral crisis to the Presidency and the Supreme Court – but especially in the case of the Court, Bush v. Gore will cast a very long shadow[*].
- Bruce Ackerman, December 11, 2008. After saying that the Bush administration’s “cavalier treatment of the rule of law has embarrassed America,” he ended with: