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2 Aug 2023, 8:59 am by DONALD SCARINCI
“The Secretary’s plan has ‘modified’ the cited provisions only in the same sense that ‘the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility’—it has abolished them and supplanted them with a new regime entirely,” Roberts wrote. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 9:31 am by Amy Howe
” The plan “modifies” student-loan laws and regulations, Roberts suggested, “only in the same sense that the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility — it has abolished them and supplanted them with a new regime entirely. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 10:14 am by Tom Smith
 That takes nothing away from the nobility of the American Revolution. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 7:30 am by Sandy Levinson
Pennsylvania or Dred Scott, it would also have been helpful to include some relevant cases from northern states, such as  licensing Roberts v. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am by Andrew Kent
In addition, in a brief filed nine months earlier in the criminal investigation concerning Vice President Spiro Agnew, Solicitor General Robert Bork had implied that a presidential self-pardon would be lawful. [read post]
More recently, the issue came to the foreground when Attorney General William Barr cleared President Trump of obstruction of justice based on a factual record compiled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which others argued pointed strongly toward multiple instances of criminal obstruction. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 1:52 pm
After Kant, because human animals alone have dignity they can make necessary and compelling or objective claims on each other (hence reciprocal notions of ‘obligation’ or ‘duty’ and ‘right’), and thus our actions are capable of embodying or expressing the “motive” proper to morality, one that also accounts for the (rational) recognition of the objective worth of others as “ends in themselves. [read post]
5 Nov 2017, 1:48 pm
They serve to integrally and holistically discipline or train the body and heart-mind (xin) of the would-be junzi (Confucian ‘gentleman,’ a meritocratic designation no longer tied to ‘nobility of blood’).In thinking of the role of the Odes, we should keep in mind with Edward Slingerland the fact that “music was considered by the early Confucians to be one of the most powerful tools for shaping the emotions, and the metaphor of musical perfection also served for… [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 5:08 am by Robert Natelson
He sought to adapt British precedent to American conditions: Just as the House of Lords was necessary to protect the nobility and the royal veto to protect the Crown, the Senate would protect the states. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 2:25 pm by Harold O'Grady
Thomas School of Law Associate Professor of Law Robert J. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
(The nobility owned some 56 percent of the total number of serfs, who were considered to be a human subspecies by their owners, and treated accordingly.) [read post]
3 Jul 2016, 3:00 pm by David Kopel
” England’s situation in the 1680s worried Sidney, for the old checks and balances were vanishing: “That which might have easily been performed when the people were armed, and had a great, strong, virtuous and powerful nobility to lead them, is made difficult, now they are disarmed, and that nobility abolished. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Borrowing phrases from Kennedy’s majority opinion, Roberts reminded us that “[t]here is, after all, no ‘Companionship and Understanding’ or ‘Nobility and Dignity’ Clause in the Constitution. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:09 pm
Let's move on to the Chief Justice Roberts dissenting opinion in Obergefell. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:33 am by Myron Orfield
The Fair Housing Act was a bipartisan accomplishment made possible in part by the nobility and humanity of Republicans like Everett Dirksen, presidential candidate Richard Nixon, and a young congressman, George H.W. [read post]
1 Aug 2014, 3:04 pm by Harold O'Grady
Roberts Jr. speaks to the ABA House of Delegates on the subject Aug. 11 at 11 a.m. [read post]