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27 Aug 2013, 2:52 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Previous Books in the Series by Robert Caro: Book One: The Path to Power (1982) Book Two: Means of Ascent (1990) Book Three: Master of the Senate (2002) Book Four: The Passage of Power (2012) [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 3:31 pm
And, indeed, in the fall of 1977, when Chief Justice Roberts was a student in my course, I was finishing up a treatise on constitutional law whose main chapter on the taxing power argued that that power was alone sufficient, given its breadth, to provide all of the incentives that Congress needed. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
The second is Freehold Offices vs. 'Despotic Displacement': Why Article II 'Executive Power' Did Not Include Removal:The Roberts Court has relied on an assertion that Article II’s “executive power” implied an “indefeasible” or unconditional presidential removal power. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 7:12 pm by David Bernstein
When that proved impossible, he chose the least disruptive path, upholding the mandate by finding that it was within Congress’s taxing power. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 2:39 pm by Josh Blackman
First, Roberts invokes the separation of powers and judicial independence. [read post]
13 May 2015, 3:13 am by rhapsodyinbooks
During Reconstruction, he became one of the most powerful political leaders of the state. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Robert Kaplan is the best selling author of Balkan Ghosts (1993), a book that Bill Clinton said shaped his perception of the war in Bosnia. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 3:00 am by LindaMBeale
In an earlier post (here), I reviewed Robert Reich's book After Shock, on the causes (and potential remedies) for the problems in the US economy. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 1:09 pm
[JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile] asserted Tuesday that the agency is able to properly use the surveillance powers granted it under the Patriot Act [JURIST news archive], telling senators at a US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] hearing [materials and witness testimony] that a compliance program has been implemented to police the use of National Security Letters [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 10:33 pm
"Justices Take Case on President's Power to Detain": Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news update. [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 8:28 pm
"Justices Rebuff Bush and World Court; Powers Limited in Texas Death Case": Robert Barnes has this front page article today in The Washington Post. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 6:28 pm by Lyle Denniston
Roberts, Jr., who handles emergency legal matters from the D.C. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 1:21 am by Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
  ...Roberts has this extraordinary degree of power because our political process remains committed to an absurd system of judicial review, in which someone like Roberts gets to “interpret” an unavoidably ambiguous 220-year-old document, written at a time and place that had less in common with America in 2012 than it did with England in 1500. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Robert Baker (Georgia State University); Mary Sarah Bilder (Boston College); and Laura Weinrib (University of Chicago).Congratulations to Professor Powers! [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 5:54 pm by davidharrisauthor
With Robert Bork’s death on Wednesday, December 19, I didn’t think first of his failed nomination to the U.S. [read post]