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17 Sep 2020, 8:22 am by Jon Brodkin
Enlarge / William Barr, US attorney general, center, arrives for a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am by Paul Rosenzweig, Vishnu Kannan
In short, President Trump has led a wrecking crew (aided and abetted by William Barr and Mitch McConnell) that has severely damaged American legal norms of behavior. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 9:59 am by Axel Hufford
Duncan and Democrat David Williams to the USPS Board of Governors. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 9:58 am by zbrown
On today’s Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by professor Kimberly Wehle from the University of Baltimore School of Law and professor Michael W. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 9:58 am by Legal Talk Network
On today’s Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by professor Kimberly Wehle from the University of Baltimore School of Law and professor Michael W. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am by Sandy Levinson
“To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 11:06 am by Andrew Koppelman
  William Lloyd Garrison was right that the original Constitution, before the Civil War, was “a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 11:52 am by Russell Pearce
The attorney general, the Senate (in the grip of McConnell and a cowed and complicit Republican majority), and too many “acting” officials, conscienceless collaborators, and pliant enablers have abetted Trump in straining and eroding our democratic system. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
William Barr’s appearance last week before the House Judiciary Committee was billed as part of the committee’s routine oversight responsibilities of the Department of Justice. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am by Andrew Kent
President Trump continues to misuse the constitutional power to pardon. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Trump Slumps, Republican Donors Look to Save the Senate New York Times – Shane Goldmacher | Published: 7/20/2020 President Trump’s weak poll numbers and a surge of Democratic cash flooding key Senate races have jolted top Republicans and intensified talk among party donors and strategists about redirecting money to protect their narrow Senate Republican majority amid growing fear of complete Democratic control of Washington in 2021. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 7:56 am by Stephen Griffin
” This denialism is well illustrated in the recent work of William Baude and Stephen Sachs, which will be the subject of my fourth and final post in this series. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 1:43 pm by Stephen Griffin
  Thaddeus Stevens, who was actually the leader of House Republicans and Senate leaders such as Lyman Trumbull and William Pitt Fessenden are not much in evidence in the law reviews.Another related problem which the leading legal historian William Nelson warned of many years ago is reading Reconstruction in light of the issues we care about instead of the issues Republicans in Congress cared about. [read post]
And Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has suggested that any new stimulus bill must address the “epidemic of lawsuits” he claims will “impact our ability to get back to work. [read post]
29 May 2020, 2:07 pm by Margaret Taylor
But just when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Attorney General William Barr think they’ve got it trapped, the elusive jinn disappears in a puff of President Trump’s tweets. [read post]
22 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and has faced questions about whether her department has given preferential treatment to projects in the state. [read post]
14 May 2020, 4:04 am by Edith Roberts
” Pete Williams reports for NBC News that “several members of the court seemed concerned that if electors are free agents, they could end up deciding who wins when the popular vote for president is very close. [read post]