Tyranny of the Majority
A few days ago, Harvard Law Professor and leading voting rights scholar and advocate, Lani Guinier, joined the ancestors, all too soon. Notably, conservative attacks on Guinier in the early 1990s foreshadowed today’s democracy-killing attacks on voting rights. To my knowledge, I never met Professor Guinier; however, I feel a kind of kinship. I knew … [Read more…]