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1 Jun 2024, 9:00 am
See John A. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm
”[9] Similarly, John Adams, concerned with “the designs of intriguing aristocratic minorities,”[10] advocated for more robust checks on the ability of elites to undercut the authority and legitimacy of the government.[11] The centrality of this principle is further illustrated by members of the Founding Generation attempting to rein in the potential of churches to usurp the people’s power and chip away at the sovereignty of the government. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 1:01 am
A miniature portrait of Barnes (c. 1789), via Wikipedia West represented himself pro se in the circuit court in June 1791 before Chief Justice John Jay, Associate Justice William Cushing, and Henry Marchant. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 2:39 pm
Last week Senator Dick Durbin invited Chief Justice Roberts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
Bush administration lawyers such as John Yoo and Jay Bybee rationalizing and justifying torture. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
National/Federal Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits DNyuz – Stuart Thompson | Published: 4/6/2023 Claims that election software companies like Dominion Voting Systems sent helped orchestrate widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been widely debunked in the years since former President Trump and his allies first pushed the theories. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 2:50 pm
William Cushing was also one of President Washington’s original Supreme Court nominees, and Cushing sat on the court as its senior Associate Justice when the Senate rejected John Rutledge’s confirmation as chief justice in December 1795. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:53 am
On August 22, 1781, a jury in Great Barrington, Massachusetts found that an African American woman named Elizabeth Freeman should be freed and was not the legal property of Colonel John Ashley. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 3:02 am
House of Representatives votes lopsidedly in favor of CASE Act [Makena Kelly, The Verge; Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today; Katharine Trendacosta and Ernesto Falcon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, here, here, here, and here; Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Copyright Alliance and ABA president Judy Perry Martinez (supportive of bill); earlier] A social media platform that proposes to vet political claims for truthfulness will inevitably be drawn into taking sides in favor of some political factions… [read post]
28 May 2019, 2:59 am
Cook, John Malcolm, Zac Bolitho, Bennett L. [read post]
14 May 2019, 9:01 pm
Two (Justices John Blair, Jr. and James Wilson) had been delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; one (Justice William Cushing) had served as Vice President of the Massachusetts convention that narrowly ratified the Constitution; and the fourth was Chief Justice John Jay, co-author of The Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.To be clear, in pointing out the inconsistency between the methodological commitments the Supreme… [read post]
6 May 2019, 1:14 am
While we are on the subject, the first justice from west of the Appalachians was Kentucky's Thomas Todd in 1807, and the first from the former Northwest Territories was Ohio's John McLean in 1830. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 3:47 am
H/T Tim Cushing [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 3:02 am
” Cato conference with Matthew Feeney, Alec Stapp, Jonathan Rauch, Julian Sanchez, Peter Van Doren, and John Samples, among many others [panels one (“Big Brother in Big Tech”), two (“Is Big Tech Too Big? [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 3:02 am
” [John Council/Texas Lawyer, Tim Cushing/TechDirt; Meador v. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 3:25 am
James Wilson, James Iredell, William Patterson, and John Jay were among the early Justices. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 2:53 am
And John Samples kicks off series of blog posts about book [first, second] Press vs. [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 2:55 am
” [John Pfaff Twitter thread, earlier here, here, and here] “CBP Sued For Seizing $41,000 From Airline Passenger, Then Refusing To Give It Back Unless She Promised Not To Sue” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Even when suspects are in fact guilty, lies told to justify searches “corrupt the law in order to enforce it. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 4:30 am
At Techdirt, Tim Cushing looks at this week’s argument in United States v. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:17 am
(Tim Cushing (TechDirt) has also written about this incident.) [read post]
