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28 May 2015, 7:52 am by Adam Gillette
The only Democrats to win the Presidential vote in Nebraska in the 20th or 21st Century are Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt (although only for his first two terms), and Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
24 May 2015, 1:57 pm
Roosevelt, a hard left at Studs Terkel, and an even harder left at Ward Churchill. [read post]
21 May 2015, 8:29 am by Matthew Harwood
They were never charged or convicted of a crime; yet they were forced to raise me in a prison camp when President Franklin Roosevelt signed a wartime executive order ultimately authorizing the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 5:48 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
The Special Supreme Court of Texas handed down its lone opinion in the case of Johnson v. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 6:51 am by Jim Sedor
Oregon – Love and Politics Collide as Scandals Plague Oregon’s Fourth-Term GovernorNew York Times – Kirk Johnson | Published: 2/11/2015 Oregon Gov. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:00 am by Emily Prifogle
[We have the following Call for Papers.]BEYOND THE NEW DEAL ORDER: A Conference at the University of California, Santa BarbaraSeptember 24-26, 2015When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald… [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 2:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Franklin Roosevelt made the second highest number of appointments, nine. [read post]
As Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson put it during a recent detention-facility tour, the existence of detention centers reserved for families with children "represents proof that indeed we will send people back" to the countries they are trying to escape. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 7:23 am by Bruce Ackerman
Fifty years ago today, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, marking a decisive transformation in the institutional dynamics propelling the civil rights revolution forward. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 6:19 am by Jim Sedor
Illinois – Event Honoring Quinn Raises ‘Pay to Play’ Issues Washington Times – Carla Johnson (Associated Press) | Published: 6/20/2014 The Roosevelt Group, a lobbying firm with close ties to a key subcontractor hired to promote the nation’s health care law in Illinois, hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) “honoring Pat Quinn,” according to an invitation that lists suggested sponsorship levels of between… [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:08 am by Bruce Ackerman
Consider: the same lawyers who parse every word of the great statements by Abraham Lincoln and John Bingham during the First Reconstruction completely ignore comparable speeches by Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey during the Second Reconstruction. [read post]
13 May 2014, 12:11 pm
I remember watching FDR campaign down Broadway through the rain, as if to demonstrate robust health; he died three months into his fourth term.A generation later, Lyndon Johnson, fighting for the Democratic nomination, had his friend John Connally put out word that John F. [read post]
1 May 2014, 5:00 am by JB
We The People Volume III: The Civil Rights Revolution is not only an outstanding history of the Civil Rights era; it is also the continuation of an almost thirty-year project of constitutional theorizing at the very highest levels. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The Times Literary Supplement, in a review titled "Disappointed democracy," reviews two books, David Runciman's The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War 1 to the Present  (Princeton University Press) and Steven Beller's Democracy: All that Matters (Hodder and Stoughton).HNN reviews Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Gordon Hutner (Vintage). [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:59 am
In February the Yale Law Journal held a symposium on “The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution,” to mark the publication of Bruce Ackerman’s book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution: It was a terrific conference, and a fitting tribute to Professor Ackerman’s accomplishments. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 4:05 am by Paul Caron
Lebron James sparked a meme over the NBA's version of Mount Rushmore (Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington) when he listed the four greatest players in NBA history as Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Oscar Robertson. [read post]