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3 Mar 2024, 12:24 pm by Josh Blackman
[Professor Shugerman's argument that the 1793 Hamilton Document, that is, a list of "every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States, (except the judges)," was intended to ensure compliance with the Constitution's Sinecure Clause lacks support.] [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
My hope was that the resulting narrative might be sufficiently rich that contemporary commentators could, as Jim Fleming put it in his careful contribution discussing the implications of the Taft Court’s substantive due process doctrine for the contemporary Roberts Court, harvest what has been “tee[d] up for” them. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
Indeed, Post himself confessed that when he was assigned volume on Taft in the Holmes Devise series, he felt he’d “drawn the short straw. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).William Forbath     Robert Post’s two-volume Holmes Devise History of the Taft Court is a tour de force. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:47 am by Hayleigh Bosher
Chapter 11 by William Page, Jocelyn Bosse and Adrian Aronson-Storrier struck a particular chord with me. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).William J. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But as Robert Post’s magisterial Holmes Devise volumes on the Taft Court reveal, William Howard Taft succeeded in packing the Supreme Court of the United States – twice – first as a one-term president from 1909 to 1913 and again as chief justice from 1921 to 1930. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 9:22 am by centerforartlaw
COMPLETE LIST OF WITNESSES[34] Plaintiff’s witnesses: Mikhail Sazonov Dmitry Rybolovlev Robert Wittman Guy Stair Sainty Yves Bouvier Sotheby’s Corporate Representative Nicholas Acquavella Claudine Godts (Wildenstein Gallery) Sanford Heller Samuel Valette Bill Ruprecht Alexander Bell Bruno Vinciguerra Sotheby’s witnesses: Samuel Valette Bill Ruprecht Alexander Bell Bruno Vinciguerr [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Stephen Breyer     Robert Post has written a magisterial account of the Supreme Court during the near decade (1921 to 1930) when former President, William Howard Taft, served as Chief Justice. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 9:24 am by Joshua Matz
During its trial of President Bill Clinton, the Senate adopted rules providing for a motion to dismiss following initial evidentiary presentations by the parties (and Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)  ultimately offered such a motion). [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  He also “hate[d] to use patronage as a club unless I have to. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” After Robert Cover died of a heart attack in 1986 at forty-two, Katz assigned Cover’s volume, on the Taft Court, to Robert Post. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm by Mark Walsh
A few minutes later, Roberts declares that the case is submitted. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
On December 29, 1860, Justice Robert Grier wrote that Floyd was "a traitor & one who has conducted his office in a manner to disgrace this administration & plunder the country, & who is now plotting its destruction. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 11:56 am by Yosi Yahoudai
  Armstrong is being represented by William Edelman of Delahunty & Edelman LLP, and Billie D. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 2:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
Ambrose, written by Judge Alexandra Davis DiPentima and joined by Chief Judge William Bright and Judge Bethany Alvord: The primary issue in this writ of error challenging the disbarment of an attorney is whether her due process rights were violated by the procedure used by the first defendant in error, Hon. [read post]