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27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
Our constitutional order contains an “anti-power-accumulation principle. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 3:05 pm by Marty Lederman
 This post and the next are follow-ups to my collection of posts on Trump v. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
A miniature portrait of Barnes (c. 1789), via Wikipedia West represented himself pro se in the circuit court in June 1791 before Chief Justice John Jay, Associate Justice William Cushing, and Henry Marchant. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 2:39 pm by Josh Blackman
On March 18 Wheeler, accompanied by Senators Warren Austin, a Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and William King, one of the panel's senior Democrats, called on Hughes to ask him to testify against the bill. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 2:50 pm by Scott Bomboy
William Cushing was also one of President Washington’s original Supreme Court nominees, and Cushing sat on the court as its senior Associate Justice when the Senate rejected John Rutledge’s confirmation as chief justice in December 1795. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:53 am by Alexandra "Mac" Taylor
Though historians debate the extent of the role that this trio of cases played in the cause of ending slavery, they represented a significant step towards it—a step ultimately resulting in the declaration by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Cushing that the institution of slavery was incompatible with the principles of liberty and legal equality articulated in the new Massachusetts Constitution. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 8:43 am by John Jascob
In his well-received presentation, Skadden Arps attorney William Ridgway took conference attendees on a brief, but terrifying, tour of the emerging cyberthreat landscape. [read post]
14 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Two (Justices John Blair, Jr. and James Wilson) had been delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; one (Justice William Cushing) had served as Vice President of the Massachusetts convention that narrowly ratified the Constitution; and the fourth was Chief Justice John Jay, co-author of The Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.To be clear, in pointing out the inconsistency between the methodological commitments the Supreme Court’s… [read post]
19 Jan 2019, 2:49 am
But Grant withdrew the Williams nomination after questions arose about Williams’ qualifications. [read post]