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19 Feb 2022, 8:36 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Legislative history: didn’t want Abraham Lincoln gin. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 9:53 am by Jim Gerl
Happy Thanksgiving.On this holiday, we express our gratitude.To celebrate, here are some fun facts from our friends at the Census Bureau:The event became a national holiday 153 years ago (Oct. 3, 1863) when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 2:00 pm by Ilya Somin
The president could buttress her position by citing (selectively chosen) quotations from widely admired nineteenth century presidents (including Abraham Lincoln) arguing that the president need not always obey court decisions. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 6:51 pm by Sandy Levinson
  Abraham Lincoln came close during the Civil War, but he always presented arguments, whether convincing or not, justifying his actions as constitutional. [read post]
2 May 2024, 11:25 am by Neil H. Buchanan
After all, my name is on more than one piece of legal scholarship and many pieces of public commentary (most of it co-authored with Professor Dorf) invoking Abraham Lincoln's famous "all the laws but one" argument, which he used to justify suspending the writ of habeas corpus to defend the nation. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 4:17 pm by Sandy Levinson
  The authors twice quote Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and its plea for a politics of “malice toward none and charity toward all. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 1:51 pm by Colleen Fitzharris, E.D. Mich.
Abraham Lincoln supposedly said something like: “A man who represents himself has a fool for a client. [read post]
2 May 2015, 10:24 am by Law Lady
., a Florida corporation, and ABRAHAM RESNICK, individually, Appellees. 4th District.Attorneys -- Disqualification -- Conflict of interest -- Motion to disqualify defendant's counsel in action for breach of non-disclosure agreement where defendant's counsel had represented plaintiff in other non-disclosure agreement matters ten years earlier -- Trial court erred in denying motion for disqualification on grounds of the time that had passed since the prior representation of… [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 4:58 am by Rebecca Tushnet
— sample is diverse ethnically and by class6) Abraham Drassinower— The fetish of the normative. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 2:11 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Remember when Republican Spain attracted anti-fascists from all over, including the famous Abraham Lincoln Brigades from the United States? [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”  (281)President Abraham Lincoln taught us more than a century and a half ago that if we are to heal the rifts that divide us, we have to remember that we “read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 3:51 pm by Jim Gerl
These include the British colonists in Virginia as early as 1619.The legacy of thanks and the feast have survived the centuries, as the event became a national holiday 152 years ago (Oct. 3, 1863) when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. [read post]
5 May 2016, 2:08 am
.*   *   *A stellar cast of speakers was involved, including Michael Hicks and Mark Vanhegan QC (acting as counsel for and against Trunki respectively), Nathan Abraham, Head of UK Examination Practice for Trade Marks and Designs at the UKIPO, Martin Howe QC, Guy Tritton and His Honour Judge Hacon.Trunki – a panel discussion on the practical implicationsAbsence of ornamentation was the first point of call, with Mark Vanhegan QC welcoming the result that lack of ornamentation… [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by Amanda L. Tyler
As is well known, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas during the Civil War to legalize the detention of Confederate soldiers and their supporters outside the criminal process, first on his own and later with the blessing of Congress. [read post]
25 Sep 2022, 7:01 am by James Jeffrey, Bilal Saab
The direct talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, two longtime rivals, might seem at first glance to signal another significant shift in the increasingly fluid politics of the Middle East that has followed the 2020 Abraham Accords and U.S. [read post]
29 May 2019, 8:19 am
                                                         The following passage is by the Brazilian economist, social scientist and writer Eduardo Giannetti [da Fonseca] (b. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 1:05 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Prior to that he worked in private practice and for Senator Spence Abraham. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
Agnon, and Abraham Sutzkever—are not a myth. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 10:54 am by Unknown
  Once crossing the expressway I noticed the tomb of Stephen Douglas, a towering and ornate memorial to the white Illinois politician who famously debated Abraham Lincoln, arguing that the expansion of slavery should be left to the local populations of whites. [read post]