Harvard Law prof: Treat conservatives as defeated war criminals

Still think you can reason with or compromise with a “liberal”?

They have no intentions of listening to or compromising with us.

Mark Tushnet, 70, is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a scholar of constitutional law and legal history. Tushnet’s father was Jewish; his mother was Unitarian.

Writing on the blog Balkinization on May 6, 2016, Tushnet scolds fellow liberals that they must stop their “defensive-crouch liberalism,” wherein “with every liberal position asserted nervously, its proponents looking over their shoulders for retaliation by conservatives”:

It’s time to stop. Right now more than half of the judges sitting on the courts of appeals were appointed by Democratic presidents, and – though I wasn’t able to locate up-to-date numbers – the same appears to be true of the district courts. And, those judges no longer have to be worried about reversal by the Supreme…