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5 Feb 2024, 12:45 am by Kevin LaCroix
It is really kind of amazing to me that after all these years and after so many London visits, I finally got around to seeing Samuel Johnson’s house. [read post]
22 Jan 2024, 10:55 am by Samuel Bray
Was that Congress creating an exception for President Johnson? [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Alaska – Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Opponents Fined Over $94K for Campaign Ethics Violations Anchorage Daily News – Iris Samuels | Published: 1/4/2024 Supporters of an effort to repeal the state’s ranked choice voting system were fined more than $94,000 after the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) found campaign finance violations. [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 4:58 pm by INFORRM
According to Juliet Samuel in The Times on 22 November, it is the prospect that one of the UK’s major newspapers may be “effectively bought and controlled by an Arab dictatorship”. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities Alaska – Alaska Campaign Watchdog Rules Anti-Ranked Choice Group Can Continue Gathering Signatures Yahoo News – Iris Samuels (Anchorage Daily News) | Published: 12/7/2023 An anti-ranked choice voting ballot group will be allowed to continue operating with no immediate consequences for alleged campaign finance violations after a decision by the Alaska Public Offices Commission. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
His exit is a blow to his successor, Speaker Mike Johnson, and House Republicans, further cutting the already narrow GOP majority and making passing legislation in 2024 even more challenging. [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:25 pm by Jim Lindgren
" Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language defines the word "indirect" in the phrase 'indirect taxes" to have the following undesirable meanings in the 1790's: Indire'ct. adj.   [indirect, Fr. indirectus, Lat.] 1. Not strait; not rectilinear. 2. Not tending otherwise than obliquely or consequentially to a point; as,… [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
For Johnson, beginning to release about 40,000 hours of video footage fulfilled a promise he made to hard-right lawmakers to win their support for the speakership. [read post]
18 Nov 2023, 4:28 am by Mark Graber
The Andrew Johnson administration understood [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 10:21 pm by Jim Lindgren
   The word direct in 1787 meant "Straight; not crooked" according to Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English language and according to Merriam-Webster it means the same thing today in 2023. [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
Samuel Johnson’s observation is particularly poignant in this case, given the subject. [read post]
3 Nov 2023, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Griffin, decided Tuesday by the Sixth Circuit, in an opinion by Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, joined by Judges Guy Cole and Amul Thapar: Kathy Griffin, a California-based celebrity and social activist, sent a series of tweets to her two million Twitter followers asserting that Tennessean Samuel Johnson, the CEO of Tennessee-based VisuWell, had engaged in homophobic conduct. [read post]
23 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm by Samuel Estreicher and Alexander Gelfond
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3455381 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3455381   Samuel Estreicher is the Dwight D. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 4:44 pm by Mark Walsh
“But there was no fire,” Justice Samuel Alito tells Wall, though he was setting up what seems like a friendly question. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Alito Pauses Order Banning Biden Officials from Contacting Tech Platforms Politico – Josh Gerstein and Rebecca Kern | Published: 9/14/2023 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily paused a lower-court order limiting Biden administration officials from contacting social media firms. [read post]