STANDING IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE SENATE DOOR: Burris blocked!

Some of Burris’ supporters have bemoaned the fact that Democrats would stand in the way of the Senate gaining its only black member. Burris himself downplayed the issue of race, telling reporters: ”I cannot control my supporters. I have never in my life, in all my years of being elected to office, thought anything about race.”

Proving that he lies well enough to be a member of the Senate, anyway! But I guess that’s a necessary but not sufficient condition: “Burris has found little support among fellow Democrats.” I agree with fellow constitutional law professor Ann Althouse that the case for excluding him is weak.