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13 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Having witnessed decades of shocking cynicism on the part of Republicans, I sometimes think that I can no longer be shocked when they become even more cynical. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The U.S. economy has lost at least 22 million jobs over the past month, with the unemployment rate headed to Great Depression-level heights. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 5:00 pm
Comparing this moment in the nation’s history to the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War and the nation’s response to the Great Depression, the paper concludes that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt did what James Buchanan and Herbert Hoover could not do – provide inspired leadership. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 10:42 am by Stéphane Erickson
Publication date: March 19, 2020 Part II – COVID-19 (coronavirus): Canadian legal implications for business leaders, moderated by Walied Soliman, with James Goulden, Evelyn Li, Julie Himo, Kevin MacNeill, and Chantal Arsenault Webinar discussing how some of the main legal issues and risk management measures that businesses should be thinking about as they meet this global challenge Publication date: March 11, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19): Legal implications Canadian employers need to… [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 9:55 am by Stéphane Erickson
  Guides d’information destinés aux clients à l’échelle pancanadienne Notre guide portant sur les programmes de secours anoncés au Canada pour faire face à la COVID-19 Date de publication: Le 1 avril 2020 Guide to COVID-19: Government Relief Programs in Canada (en anglais seulement) Notre premier guide destiné aux clients qui font face à des mises à pied pendant la pandémie Date de publication: 26 mars 2020… [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 8:32 am by Nicholas Mosvick
The federal government was represented by Attorney General James Speed, his future replacement Henry Stanbery, and Radical Republican and Union General Benjamin Butler, while Milligan’s team included President James Buchanan’s Attorney General Jeremiah S. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In a world that is stranger than anything we ever could have expected to experience, we are now so regularly shocked that it actually becomes shocking when something still shocks us.That has been true in a general sense for several years, as people have been dismayed by how many norms and precedents Donald Trump has handily destroyed—and by the Republicans who have abandoned seemingly every principle they ever claimed to hold dear in order to enable and abet their new leader. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
It is absolutely essential that Congress pass a massive economic rescue package, as soon as possible. [read post]
21 Mar 2020, 10:05 pm by Sandy Levinson
"  Even the inept James Buchanan had one of the best resumes of any of our presidents, which, of course, calls into question exactly what we should be looking for in electing a president. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In these unprecedented times of stress, people understandably yearn for decisive actions by their leaders to solve problems. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Understandably, the rush of recent events has made it nearly impossible to think about anything other than the global coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 2:00 am by mes286
Buchanan, Professor of Law, James J. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For the past four years, I have been writing with increasing levels of alarm about the fundamental threat to the rule of law that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Saying, “Professor Buchanan is right that Trump and the Republicans will ignore this election’s results” risks depressing turnout—as well as all but guaranteeing an epidemic of personal bouts of depression, as people give up hope.In other words, I get it. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There was never any mystery about Donald Trump’s ignorance of the Constitution or his disdain for the rule of law. [read post]
12 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Two weeks ago, before Senate Republicans aborted their sham trial of Donald Trump, I thought of the title for this column: “How Much Worse Will Trump Become, and How Quickly? [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
With Senate Republicans having now acquitted Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, we can expect Trump to increase his abuse of power and even more brazenly obstruct Congress. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 4:41 am by NCC Staff
Trist was the chief clerk to Secretary of State James Buchanan, and he had been sent to Mexico in 1847 to work with General Winfield Scott to negotiate a settlement. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
With yet another dreary made-for-TV “debate” (and the scare quotes are truly appropriate here, because these are most assuredly not debates) in the books for the Democratic presidential candidates, and with the Iowa caucuses now less than three weeks away, commentators are intensifying their “soul of the Democratic Party” analyses and weighing in on the party’s center-right versus center-left schism that has become especially pronounced in the past year.That is not to… [read post]