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Is the dam about to burst re Burris?

By Jack M. Balkin

Walter Dellinger has an excellent op-ed in today's Times arguing that the legal case for seating Burris is substantially stronger than that against him. (I, of course, agree.) Moreover, Sen. Diane Feinstein, the outgoing chair of the Senate Rules Committee, has publicly endorsed seating Burris. Apparently, the task now is to find a way to save Harry Reid's face, certainly a high priority given the state of our current political situation. (I suppose it's too much to expect that the Senate Majority Leader might actually be from a state that is more typical of those in which a majority of Americans live.)

Full post as published by Balkinization on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).