“No one would care what he has to say if he wasn’t a Hindu first generation immigrant.
That’s his whole shtick, what he’s selling. If he was Joe WASP, his noise wouldn’t make it out of the Yale grad school review index.”
Not at all, really. He gets attention (to the extent he does at all - remember, this is an article on Salon we’re talking about) because he is one of the most prominent constitutional scholars/academics around. He writes a lot, publishes a lot, and speaks a lot.
And once again I would submit to you that if his name was Jim Smith, 10th generation American all around good guy and prolific Constitutional author, he’d be almost as well known on Free Republic as commentator Conscience of a Conservative.