Lawrence Lessig on Hacking an Article V Convention

Lawrence Lessig on Hacking an Article V Convention
Moderated by Maia Cook
2023 annual Global Justice Program conference
Yale University, November 3, 2023
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court [hls.harvard.ed...]
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[@rationalpear1816]

Here’s the question I want people to ask these constitutional professors: why should we bother with new constitutional amendments if a corrupt Supreme Court can just ignore them for 100yrs like the 14th and 15th? Lessing also basically concedes the point early in the talk. If the democratically minded people are not in power, no law can overcome that.