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8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
In the months before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861, anti-Lincoln men in Washington plotted to undermine the Union and derail the peaceful transfer of power. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 5:38 am by Stephen E. Sachs
This binding "procedural instruction" is relatively well known in the ERA debate; the Trump Administration's Office of Legal Counsel cited it in a 2020 opinion rejecting the ERA. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
We know that the original electorate was remarkably restricted at the time, even if it would become more inclusive relatively early in the 19th century. [read post]
1 May 2021, 5:53 am by Russell Knight
“Mere advice, argument or persuasion does not constitute duress or undue influence if the individual acts freely when he executed the questioned documents though the same would not have been executed except for the advice, argument or persuasion” People ex rel. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 7:27 am by David Super
  That settlement was achieved through popular constitutionalism rather than Article V, leaving the election challengers two diametrically opposite choices. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:11 am by Jeh Johnson
Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson delivered on Feb. 6 at the American Constitution Society (ACS) Symposium at the Georgetown University Law Center. *** I am happy to be part of this symposium. [read post]
As former Justice Benjamin Curtis, who dissented in Dred Scott v. [read post]
Article I, Section 3, Clause 6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But if Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society. [read post]
(This article originally was published by Law360 on July 1, 2019.) [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 10:32 am by admin
Thaddeus Stevens,18 wanted to grant freed slaves full civil rights, both out of moral sentiment and to create a Republican power base.19 The “black codes”20 and laws that denied freedmen entry into the states21 hampered the Radicals’ goals, as did Supreme Court precedent favoring states rights (often regarding slavery).22 After President Johnson vetoed23 a civil rights bill24 that would have eliminated the black codes, Stevens sought to usurp power from… [read post]