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7 Aug 2015, 10:00 am
The human suffering and disruption to commerce caused by the local shotgun quarantine led the South to implore Congress for legislation to remedy it – the only significant instance in which the post-Civil War South united in favor of ceding state’s rights to the federal government. [read post]
2 Feb 2014, 12:13 am
The truly desperate state of biodiversity and climate change law has apparently prompted some very rich countries (especially the United States) to behave as if these sources of truly irreparable environmental harm defy meaningful precautions. [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 8:00 am
In the next and inevitably coming war, Congress would need to borrow from the Dutch again. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 6:05 am
(A 2011 paper by Mehrdad Payandeh entitled Constitutional Aesthetics: Appending Amendments to the United States Constitution explores some of these issues.)Madison wanted to write his proposed amendments directly into the text, but Roger Sherman convinced the House of Representatives that this was wrong. [read post]
25 May 2021, 1:23 pm
Recovering the visits of the deputies to Philadelphia in 1787 and the promises they received, including Washington’s handshake, suggests that the United States today should reaffirm the right and the importance of Native Nations sending deputies to Congress. [read post]
25 May 2021, 1:23 pm
Recovering the visits of the deputies to Philadelphia in 1787 and the promises they received, including Washington’s handshake, suggests that the United States today should reaffirm the right and the importance of Native Nations sending deputies to Congress. [read post]
2 Feb 2014, 12:13 am
The truly desperate state of biodiversity and climate change law has apparently prompted some very rich countries (especially the United States) to behave as if these sources of truly irreparable environmental harm defy meaningful precautions. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 9:54 am
The opinion detailing the president’s authority to withdraw from NAFTA, authored on Oct. 17, 2018, found that the president “may lawfully withdraw the United States from [NAFTA] without the need for any further legislative action. [read post]
15 Aug 2020, 9:30 pm
Indeed, sidewalks would be treated by the never-ending "waters of the United States. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 11:30 am
Unless Congress takes action to stop it, on January 1, 2011 one of the largest peacetime tax hikes in the history of the United States will take effect. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 2:53 pm
United States. [read post]
31 Jan 2022, 8:31 am
Separately, Section 418 of the Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 required the secretary of state to submit to Congress a report on all special envoys at the State Department at that time, including a detailed explanation of the necessity of each position to the effective conduct of foreign affairs. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 1:01 pm
With the Sinecure Clause, a member of Congress cannot be "appointed" to a "civil Office under the Authority of the United States," if Congress increased the compensation for that position during the member's term. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 11:44 am
Congress, House Ethics Reform Task Force on H. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 4:56 am
The United States switched sides to advocate that the statute be ruled unconstitutional. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 10:24 am
Advertisement of Internet Website- Subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, in accordance with section 532 of title 38, United States Code, purchase advertising in national media outlets for the purpose of promoting awareness of the VetSuccess Internet website to veterans. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 5:56 am
State Department, I testified before Congress on behalf of the Administration in support of providing U.S. criminal jurisdiction over any persons found in the United States, regardless of their nationality, who had committed serious war crimes anywhere in the world. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 10:21 am
NY Times President Trump blames Congress (and not Putin) for the United States’ relationship with Russia being “at an all-time & very dangerous low. [read post]
18 May 2014, 9:21 am
Johnson launched the most ambitious set of social programs ever undertaken in the United States. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 2:45 am
The United States Government has agreed to pay $3.4 billion to settle the Indian Trust Fund lawsuit. [read post]
