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28 Dec 2019, 9:51 pm
“The mists of prejudice are only gradually lifting from Taney’s reputation,” Frankfurter wrote, suggesting that Taney’s “share in the responsibility of the whole Court for the tragic Dred Scott affair” was overstated, while Taney’s states’ rights philosophy was close kin to “the Insurgency of the elder LaFollette, the Progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt, and the New Freedom of Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 3:02 am
After a crackdown on saloon drinking backed by Theodore Roosevelt and others, creative New Yorkers opened 1500 new “hotels” and complied with rules linking alcohol to food by serving desiccated sandwiches meant not to be eaten [Darrell Hartman, Atlas Obscura on Raines Law] “‘The evidence is very, very strong that there’s a powerful potential health benefit if you can’t get people to quit entirely, to get them to switch from cigarette smoking to… [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 5:47 am
Then their use picked up quite a bit starting with President Theodore Roosevelt and continuing to the present day. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 12:01 am
Roosevelt, like his cousin and predecessor in office Theodore Roosevelt, believed that whites were of a superior racial “stock. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
What is “executive privilege”? [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 5:34 pm
There is a story about Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps apocryphal but definitely instructive: Shortly after the assassination of William McKinley, Roosevelt and his young family moved into the White House. [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 1:35 am
” Others may give credit to President Theodore Roosevelt, whose disgust at the food supplied to his troops in Cuba during the Spanish American War compelled him to support the campaign for safer food. [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 1:01 am
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. [read post]
7 Aug 2019, 1:01 am
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
4 Aug 2019, 6:17 am
He is using the “bully pulpit” (in part and by implication, in Theodore Roosevelt’s sense to ‘exhort, instruct, or inspire,’ but the adjective no longer means ‘excellent’ or ‘first-rate’ but rather is in the degrading and ugly spirit of its contemporary meaning as both a noun and verb), to inspire these mentally fragile if not sick individuals to act out their violent (‘primary process’ in the Freudian sense)… [read post]
4 Aug 2019, 6:12 am
He is using the “bully pulpit” (in part and by implication, in Theodore Roosevelt’s sense to ‘exhort, instruct, or inspire,’ but the adjective no longer means ‘excellent’ or ‘first-rate’ but rather is in the degrading and ugly spirit of its contemporary meaning as both a noun and... [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 1:01 am
Hanfstaengl had attended Harvard, and knew both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt socially. [read post]
21 Jul 2019, 5:34 am
The place was called the "Executive Mansion" until the racist Theodore Roosevelt took the trouble to change the official name to "The White House. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 7:48 am
Cardozo Law School Theodore St. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 2:18 pm
Two seminal events have occurred in recent days in the ongoing oversight war between the House of Representatives and the Trump administration—and in the ongoing expansion of the doctrine of executive privilege. [read post]
11 Jun 2019, 8:40 am
The current tug of war between the executive branch and Congress has revived interest in the exact scope of congressional investigative power. [read post]
1 Jun 2019, 3:00 am
Brandeis became associated with President Woodrow Wilson during the 1912 presidential campaign, a bitter three-way battle between Wilson, former President Theodore Roosevelt, and the incumbent President William Howard Taft. [read post]
31 May 2019, 9:40 am
” Characterized in comparative terms, “Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes: Andrew Jackson’s rage; Millard Fillmore’s bigotry; James Buchanan’s incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt’s self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon’s paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton’s lack of self-control and reflexive dishonesty. [read post]
30 May 2019, 2:20 pm
And the four great men — Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln — look as determined and visionary as we would want great men to ... [read post]
30 May 2019, 10:40 am
But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad” — Theodore RooseveltStatesman, president, naturalist, conservationist, soldier, lawyer, even taxidermist — Teddy Roosevelt was very much an American Renaissance man. [read post]
