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4 Jul 2020, 7:18 am by Randy E. Barnett
The Declaration had to be explained away–quite unconvincingly–by the Supreme Court in Dred Scott. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 4:56 pm by Tom Smith
Grant, Frances Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:31 am by JB
How you would do that would depend on your role in society: whether you are a judge, a legislator, or an executive official; and the rules and norms in which you must work to change things.But the very idea that you might have some sort of obligation to move the Constitution-in-practice toward the best interpretation of it suggests that when you take an oath to defend the Constitution, you take an oath to defend the best interpretation, and not the current interpretation.This point is similar to… [read post]
6 May 2020, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
  Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, in this conventional view, articulated the foundational expressions of departmentalist logic. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 8:32 am by Nicholas Mosvick
” During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus—meaning to “present the body,” or to be informed by a court of the charges before you—numerous times beginning in April 1861 upon the onset of war. [read post]
The committee will hear testimony from Alina Polyakova, the president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis; Abraham Denmark, the director of the Asia program at the Wilson Center; and Thomas Mahnken, the president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 4:41 am by NCC Staff
The powerful Whig leader in the Senate, Daniel Webster, opposed it, as did a young Representative from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 11:19 am by Nicholas Mosvick
On this day in 1862, Noah Swayne was confirmed by the Senate to replace Justice John McLean, one of two dissenters in the Dred Scott decision along with Benjamin Roberts Curtis. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 5:55 am
Posted by Abraham Cable (University of California), on Thursday, November 7, 2019 Tags: Boards of Directors, Controlling shareholders, Delaware cases, Delaware law, Dual-class stock, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, Tech companies, Venture capital firms Statements of Commissioner Hester Peirce on Proposed Amendments to Improve Accuracy and Transparency of Proxy Voting Advice, and on Proposed Amendments to Modernize… [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 10:55 am by Keches Law
Hislop – Workers’ CompensationStephen Allard – Workers’ CompensationIn addition, two of-counsel attorneys were also selected: Ann Marie Maguire – Personal Injury Medical MalpracticeMaria Mancini Scott – Employment & LaborManaging Partner Sean Flaherty said, “This is another great year of Super Lawyers for our firm, in fact, a record year. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
Could mean big changes in admissions process [Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed] In case you missed this angle in the astounding Bruce Hay story earlier: Hay “has already run afoul of [Harvard] investigators for reaching out to journalists (namely me), which they view as an act of retaliation” under Title IX [Kera Bolonik] “The Galling Push for a Student Debt Bailout” [Cato Daily Podcast with Christian Barnard and Caleb Brown] If more of the same is what you want,… [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 6:00 am by Hilary Hurd, Nathaniel Sobel
The move was largely symbolic, as Lawfare’s Scott Anderson has explained. [read post]
14 May 2019, 4:08 am by Edith Roberts
Scott Oswald writes that the opinion “showed again that the justices aren’t easily tempted to undermine the central purpose of the FCA since it was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863: Holding fraudsters accountable when they pick the public pocket. [read post]
7 May 2019, 1:48 pm by Mikhaila Fogel
(Disclosure: Protect Democracy represents Lawfare editors Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, Scott Anderson and Susan Hennessey on a number of separate matters.) [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 11:25 am by Steve Lubet
Abraham Lincoln read law, as did Daniel Webster, Stephen Douglas, Henry Clay, Salmon P. [read post]