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18 Apr 2024, 6:31 am
Trump cites a law review article by then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who before becoming a judge worked in the George W. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:57 am
Another House runoff in 1824 between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson led to a renewed desire for state party leaders to have a bigger say in the process. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 8:57 am
The Vice President’s Oath The very first statute passed by the First Federal Congress was “An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administering certain Oaths,” which was signed into law by George Washington on June 1, 1789. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 1:01 am
(One of his sons, Richard, born in 1780, later served in the cabinets of James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, James K. [read post]
8 May 2023, 4:20 am
We have had numerous American dynasties: John and John Quincy Adams; William Henry and Benjamin Harrison; Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt (who were only very distantly related but whose names conjured a closer relation); John and (but for Sirhan Sirhan) perhaps Robert Kennedy; George H.W. and George W. [read post]
19 Feb 2023, 10:14 am
It is hubris based on an ideology that would have been foreign to George Washington and John Quincy Adams — indeed, foreign to almost all American statesmen until very recent times. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
In March 1789, George Washington and John Adams were sworn in as president and vice president, and the new Congress met. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 2:50 pm
The Senate confirmed Madison’s next nominee, John Quincy Adams, on February 22, 1811. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 10:15 am
George Washington took bitter exception when at least 3,000 formerly enslaved people left New York Harbor with British forces. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 8:30 am
Hayes (1976) and John Quincy Adams (1824). [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 4:59 am
John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy. [read post]
21 Feb 2022, 5:31 am
In honor of today’s holiday, here are some interesting facts about how it came to be: Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February, thanks to the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act It was established in 1885 in honor of President George Washington’s birthday Washington’s birthday was actually on February 22, 1732 (this would be his 282nd birthday!) [read post]
27 Jul 2021, 2:25 am
President George Washington appointed Jefferson as the first Secretary of State in March 1790 and Jefferson headed the first Cabinet branch with a staff of five employees. [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:20 am
During the last year of his term as judge, he was also one of 12 justices who repudiated the Stamp Act that had been imposed on the colonies by George III and his ministers in Great Britain. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 7:02 am
It has happened before that a former President has gone on to serve in the House of Representatives: [John Quincy] Adams considered permanently retiring from public life after his 1828 defeat, and he was deeply hurt by the suicide of his son, George Washington Adams, in 1829. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 6:57 am
For example, following loyalist George Chalmer’s depiction of the Compact as a statement of loyalist principle in his Political Annals of the Present United Colonies (London, 1780), James Wilson and John Quincy Adams countered with statements about the Compacts meaning interpreted in a patriotic light. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 4:01 am
The House chose John Quincy Adams in the contingent election instead of Jackson. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
After all, in the remarkable election of 2000, while all of the attention was placed on Florida and “hanging chads,” nobody noticed that Al Gore received only five electoral votes for carrying New Mexico even as George W. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 11:06 am
With a tongue-in-cheek reference to his withdrawn concession to his opponent back on election night, Gore on Dec. 13 said, “Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. [read post]
