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6 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Jesse Jackson became the first speaker to say the words “lesbians and gays” on a DNC stage. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Alito wants to play doubles pickleball with Ginni Thomas, Jesse Barrett, and Patrick Jackson on that same spot. [read post]
29 May 2024, 3:52 pm by Reference Staff
In a 2023 Gallup poll, 49 percent of respondents reported having trust in the judicial branch of the federal government, where the average for years prior to 2022 was 68 percent.According to Jesse Rutledge, Vice President for Public Affairs at the National Center for State Courts, “Many Americans express concern that there are two systems of justice — one for those with money, power, and political influence — and one for everyone else. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
 Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. not only promoted the idea in Congress but vowed publicly that getting it passed would be the centerpiece of his work as a political leader. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 9:24 am by Howard Bashman
Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Considers Ban on Bump-Stock Firearm Devices; Trump-era decision classified devices as machine guns after Las Vegas massacre. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm by Mark Walsh
Three spouses of justices enter the guest box: Ashley Kavanaugh, Jesse Barrett, and Patrick Jackson. [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 6:50 pm by Howard Bashman
” Jan Wolfe and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn His Removal From Colorado Primary Ballot; Appeal was expected as states differ on whether 14th Amendment provision barring insurrectionists from federal office applies to former president. [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
While we’ve never fully lived up to that promise, we’ve never fully walked away from it because of extraordinary leaders like Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Civic Education, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 2:02 am by Alyce Ogunsola, FordHarrison
Last season, Meredith decides to join her former co-worker and friend, Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) in Boston to find a cure for Alzheimer’s (a disease that ravaged her mother). [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The Reverend Jesse Jackson captured this disturbing fact in the title of his 2003 book, Legal Lynching: the Death Penalty and America’s Future.Since then, other commentators have argued that the Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence has been animated by a desire to scrub capital punishment clean from the historical legacy Jackson’s title references. [read post]
14 Jan 2023, 2:14 am
Dingell VA Medical Center Minnesota Minneapolis: Minneapolis VA Health Care System Mississippi Jackson: G.V. [read post]
23 Dec 2022, 8:52 am
He cites the long influence of Jesse Jackson, who made a point of announcing, back in the 1980s, that henceforth "African American" was the respectful and appropriate term. [read post]
17 Dec 2022, 7:08 am
" Jesse Jackson went to Syria and, after 3 days of negotiation, Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad, agreed to release Goodman — probably "mostly to embarrass Reagan. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 6:45 am by SCOTUSblog
Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes (Jan Hoffman, The New York Times) Supreme Court Hears Challenges to FTC and SEC In-House Courts (Jan Wolfe, Dave Michaels, & Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Designer ready for high court fight on excluding gay couples (Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press) Ketanji Brown Jackson issues her first written opinion as a Supreme Court justice – a dissent… [read post]