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19 Feb 2024, 8:57 am by John Mikhail
Before the adoption of this statute, the only federal official who had taken an oath to support the new Constitution was Washington himself, who did so at his first inauguration on April 30, 1789. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:30 am by Steve Vladeck
Muddying the waters left it open for the President to fill the position, as George Washington shortly would with Edmund Randolph. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
., who was serving time for a firearms offense; and Edmund Mulvehill, who had committed an armed robbery.The Massachusetts Clemency Task Force called clemency “an act of mercy and a constitutionally based fail-safe designed to ensure justice is served in criminal cases when no other legal remedy is available. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 9:05 pm by renholding
During my recent visit to Columbia Law School, Professor John Coffee shared with me a draft of a short article that later appeared in the New York Law Journal.[1] Coffee’s article assessed the prospects in the U.S. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 12:00 am by Lawrence Solum
The following day Edmund Randolph proposed a freestanding clause—with extensive and exacting language. [read post]
24 Jun 2023, 11:25 am by Eugene Volokh
Therefore, if the federal government wants to allow tribes to intervene in state adoptions, it must again engage in treaty-making. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 11:39 am by Josh Blackman
" To support this proposition, Gorsuch cites one piece of evidence: Attorney General Edmund Randolph's opinion concerning the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States. [read post]
2 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Those are policies that in the Soviet Union certainly meant the overthrow of capitalism as it is understood elsewhere in the world, though contemporary China has shown that a central state adopting more limited versions of those polices—some but less state ownership, some but less state planning—can achieve remarkable economic growth. [read post]
Marine Corps fighter pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, was arrested in Australia at the United States’s request and is being held while facing extradition. [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 4:08 am by Mark Nevitt
But gas-powered leaf blowers are still legal in many states, including my newly adopted state of Georgia. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
Yet as far as one can tell from the available records, the basic contours of the office were primarily shaped by Wilson, with noteworthy assists from John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Gouverneur Morris, and a few others. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
Ironically, today’s vociferous critics of the Constitution and the Framers have adopted the views of the justly maligned Roger Taney. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 7:35 am
 Pix Credit hereI wanted to take this opportunity to circulate a discussion draft of an essay, entitled "Legal Semiotics, Globalization and Governance. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 11:07 am by Eugene Volokh
Unless related to its Indian Commerce power (and heaven forbid if we have arrived at treating adoption of babies and children as commerce), Congress has no power over Native American adoptions. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
” Between the time this text in the Articles of Confederation was finalized and the time the Elections Clause’s essentially identical text in the Constitution was unveiled (about a decade later), there were three, and only three, states that adopted or revised their state constitutions. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Milligan, Justice Jackson made an originalist move to resist the core contention of the Alabama Solicitor General, Edmund LaCour. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:43 am by SHG
A fascinating exchange between the Alabama solicitor general, Edmund LaCour, and the newest associate justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, occurred during oral argument in a challenge to the Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Merrill v. [read post]