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19 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Today, January 20, 2017, only those Americans with no knowledge or who are self-deluded celebrate the start of the presidency of Donald John Trump, the most unqualified man ever to be elected to our highest office. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 10:17 am
” In General John DeWitt’s own words, the nation need not worry about those of German or Italian descent, “[b]ut we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
John Lewis, who played Donald Trump like a fiddle this week in the context of this constitutional symphony, to abandon his boycott, he would be ditching the checking function that is his job as a voter and as a member of a competing branch of government. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
He was aided by the genius of John von Neumann, the emigre physicist from Hungary who made important contributions to any scientific field he entered. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 7:56 am
Plaintiffs in Abassi brought claims against two sets of defendants: senior level Justice Department officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller; and wardens of the federal detention center in New York where the plaintiffs were held. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The pattern began in 1795 when the Senate rejected George Washington’s pick for chief justice, John Rutledge. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 4:00 am
The oath of office was administered to Chester Arthur by Justice John R. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 12:40 pm
Larsen worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to the president and the executive branch. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 4:24 pm
Mission to the United Nations We Have Leveraged the UN to Address Global Crises Addressing security threats Syria Preventing and mitigating conflict Global health, climate, development and refugees We Have Worked to Reform and Improve the UN Reforming the way the UN does business Addressing anti-Israel bias Strengthening peacekeeping We Have Advocated for Our Values at the UN UN Human Rights Council Civil society & political prisoners LGBT rights Women's rights, human trafficking, and… [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 3:29 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie notes that the “unheralded but important role of the district-court judge was the theme of Chief Justice John Roberts’ end-of-year report,” but that “in his homily, the chief justice judiciously ignored the elephant in his own courtroom—the empty chair Senate Republicans successfully blockaded after Antonin Scalia’s death last February” — and “papered over the political fight concerning dozens of… [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 3:16 am
In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports on Chief Justice John Roberts’ “2016 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary,” in which Roberts “spotlighted the ‘crucial role’ played by federal district judges, asserting they ‘deserve tremendous respect’ for performing the often thankless tasks of the job. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Bush and Dick Cheney) for the daily grind of being head of the executive branch of government.Watching the formation of Donald Trump’s presidency, the press coverage is disappointingly weak and thin. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 3:20 pm
As the sun sets on eight years of an Obama administration, the United States of America, long quite remote as an institutional body from the global projects for the management of business activities with human rights effects, has now produced a National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct (US-NAP).National Action Plans (NAPs) are policy documents in which a State articulates priorities and actions that it will adopt to support the implementation of international, regional, or national… [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 4:21 am
” At PrawfsBlawg, Howard Wasserman assesses “who within or around the Court comes out ahead and who behind in” the Garland nomination “debacle”; in the first category he points to Justice Elena Kagan, who “might have been the intellectual center of a liberal Court,” and he includes Chief Justice John Roberts, who “avoids the prospect of being a Chief regularly in the minority and assigning dissents rather than majority opinions,” in… [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 9:42 am
In Carthage, as John Adams noted, the people initiated laws when their magistrates were not unanimous. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 9:36 am
Today's DJ features an article by John Rabiej, director of the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies, titled The Many Jobs of Chief Justice John G. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 7:25 am
It seems that Republicans believe that the third, purportedly co-equal branch of government belongs to them. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 7:00 am
By the time January 23, 2017 rolls around it will have been almost three years since Parliamentary Secretary John Yap released his much anticipated Final Report on B.C. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 10:06 am
John Cornyn (R-Tex.) prevented debate on bills opposing immediate adoption. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 10:01 am
Bush turned out to be what John Ashcroft might have called “phantoms of lost liberty. [read post]
