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18 Aug 2020, 7:17 am by Melissa De Witte
Karlan on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery march for voting rights. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 5:30 am by Bailey DeSimone
Senator George Edmunds clarified, “Do not think we are wanting in respect to you and the ladies here because you say something that makes us laugh. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 8:15 am by Howard Bashman
“A court has ruled that Connecticut’s governor and public health commissioner have broad authority to force residents into involuntary medical quarantines”: Edmund H. [read post]
9 Aug 2020, 10:33 am
 There was a good article in the NY Times  recently on why Edmund Burke still matters, The 18th century statesman/conservative philosopher is most prominently known for his oft quoted phrase that all it takes for evil to prosper is for men of good character to remain silent. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Trump Leans into Attacks on Mail Voting, GOP Officials Confront Signs of Republican Turnout Crisis Washington Post – Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey | Published: 8/3/2020 Multiple public surveys show a growing divide between Democrats and Republicans about the security of voting by mail, with Republicans saying they are far less likely to trust it in November. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 7:34 am by Nicholas Mosvick
The five-man committee was unanimously adopted, consisting of John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nataniel Gorham, Oliver Ellsworth, and James Wilson. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 6:56 am by Schachtman
& Allied Sciences 329 (2004). [5]  See Edmund L. [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 2:15 pm by Sandy Levinson
Lewis will very likely get the Edmund Pettus Bridge named after him, but hell will freeze over before Mitch McConnell and his collaborationist allies (including Susan Collins) will vote to renew the clearance procedures of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the GOP majority of the Supreme Court gutted in Shelby County. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 5:44 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
The Past Repeats Itself The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama has a historical and symbolic significance. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 3:38 pm by Sandy Levinson
  For all I know, Jim Clark was perfectly within his rights, as Selma’s sheriff, to stop him from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 8:47 am by Tyler Gillett
” In March of 1965 he helped coordinate and lead a march of peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as part of a voting rights demonstration. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am by Keith E. Whittington
Edmund Randolph imagined that the president himself or “his own instruments” might be guilty of treason, and so suggested that treason be carved out from the pardon power. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 1:59 pm by Toby Heytens and Martine Cicconi
” What followed was a courtroom clash notable for its salacious plot of duels, spies and intrigue as much as for its cast of luminary characters: Burr, represented by Edmund Randolph and Luther Martin, both delegates to the Constitutional Convention; President Thomas Jefferson, “orchestrat[ing] the prosecution from afar”; and Chief Justice John Marshall, presiding as circuit justice for Virginia. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 10:54 am by Bernadette Meyler
Hence it makes sense that Roberts’ opinion references Sir Edmund Burke, often considered one of the intellectual forerunners of modern conservatism. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 11:04 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Some of the Union troops were African Americans, who were well aware of the Emancipation Proclamation and of the surrender of General Lee.On June 2, 1865, General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Department of the Trans-Mississippi to Major General Edward Canby at Galveston, Texas. [read post]