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24 May 2020, 9:30 pm by ernst
" -- Kirkus Reviews"This work sets itself apart from other Adams biographies in its detailing of its subject's vision of governance, as well as his role as a legal and constitutional scholar, compared to other Founding Fathers, such as George Washington, Samuel Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and, notably, Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
15 May 2020, 7:35 am by Margaret Wood
  On May 31, 1789, James Madison, then a member of the House of Representatives during the First Congress, wrote a letter to Edmund Randolph, who would soon after be appointed the nation’s first Attorney General. [read post]
15 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Effort to Drop Michael Flynn Case, Examine Whether Ex-Trump Adviser Committed Perjury Washington Post – Spencer Hsu, Matt Zapotosky, and Devlin Barrett | Published: 5/13/2020 Michael Flynn’s sentencing judge asked a former federal judge to oppose the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the former Trump national security adviser’s guilty plea and examine whether Flynn may have committed perjury. [read post]
13 May 2020, 10:30 am by Guest Blogger
In 1861 the federal footprint was so small that Henry Adams thought that secession could happen easily. [read post]
13 May 2020, 3:46 am by Edith Roberts
For The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that “[a] majority of the justices appeared skeptical of Mr. [read post]
13 May 2020, 3:25 am by Walter Olson
” [Corey Crockett and James Ford, WPIX] Forced retroactive coverage of business interruption risks never underwritten or paid for “could bankrupt the insurance industry,” per one defense lawyer [Alison Frankel, earlier here and here; Nancy Adams and Kaitlyn Leonard, WLF] Bilingual national identity is not a suicide pact: “Canada recently relaxed bilingual labeling requirements for some cleaning products coming from the United States. [read post]
12 May 2020, 8:07 am by Gordon Ahl
Chairman Adam Schiff said that the transcripts affirm many of the revelations in the Mueller Report, including that the Trump campaign welcomed Russian help and then sought to obstruct investigations into these events. [read post]
10 May 2020, 4:47 am
"Try to imagine James Brown, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Elton John, and Prince without his electrical charge. [read post]
9 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
On June 2, 1787, the Convention voted by eight states to two that the president should be elected by the national legislature for a non-renewable seven-year term, rejecting unanimously James Wilson’s motion for direct popular election of the president. [read post]
8 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Senate Rules and Administration Committee is expected to advance James Trainor to fill a GOP vacancy on the panel. [read post]
5 May 2020, 11:40 am by sydniemery
Beyer’s work in Sign on the [Electronic] Dotted Line: The Rise of the Electronic Will is cited in the following article: Adam J. [read post]
3 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
We still know far too little about popular constitutionalism in the early republic (what we do know is owed in no small measure to the authors’ own prior, importantwork on the subject) or how popular constitutionalism, across its many dimensions, intersected with the kind of constitutionalism that manifested itself in James Madison’s learned writings, the Washington administration, or the Marshall Court. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 8:57 am by Ben Kostyack
Michael Gilday and acting Navy Secretary James McPherson suggested Crozier’s reinstatement. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 5:35 am by Peter J. Louie, Esq.
James Madison predicted as much when he described constitutional rights as “parchment barriers,” easily transgressed when the majority is so inclined. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 5:30 am by Robert Brammer
You are looking at a drawing of a rock carving that was sent to Thomas Jefferson by General James Wilkinson, who served as a senior officer in the United States Army under Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 3:43 am by Chris Seaton
*For the sake of ease, I will refer to James Reiher as “Jimmy Snuka” unless it’s a quote from a source. [read post]