LAW PROFESSOR ANN ALTHOUSE has comments on Judge Guido Calabresi’s outburst earlier this week, and concludes:

I can’t help thinking that Judge Calabresi and his American Constitution Society audience would not have taken the same position about Presidential power if the election had fallen out the other way and Gore had become President.

Yes, had Gore won, I think we’d be hearing about the nobility of the Electoral College, and the dangers of populist democracy — not to mention the absolute criticality of a strong executive, a la FDR, in wartime. . . .