Search for: "Samuel Franklin"
Results 41 - 60
of 248
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
9 Oct 2022, 9:04 pm
Justice Samuel Alito, in a concurring opinion, repeats a gun lobby trope about anecdotal cases of “good guys with guns” who foil public assaults. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 8:37 am
During World War II, Vinson pointed out, President Franklin D. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
But it is hard to separate Kagan’s comments from the Dobbs decision last term, where the three Justices appointed by President Trump—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Barrett—joined Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to overturn Roe v. [read post]
October 2, 1729 – Benjamin Franklin and his partner Hugh Meredith Purchased the Pennsylvania Gazette
2 Oct 2022, 1:01 am
On this day in history, Franklin and Meredith purchased the “The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette” from Samuel Keimer, who was in debt and needed the money. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 4:37 pm
United States settled a free speech issue after a man sent literature to people in military service that criticized President Franklin D. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 6:40 am
As Benjamin Franklin noted “The U. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
‘Operation Higher Court’: Inside the religious right’s efforts to wine and dine Supreme Court justices Yahoo News – Peter Canellos and Josh Gerstein (Politico) | Published: 7/8/2022 Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister who once headed the group Faith and Action, said he arranged for couples to fly to Washington to visit with and entertain Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and the late Antonin Scalia. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:00 am
This was the strategy of (among others) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 12:43 pm
ShareThere is no man in this country to whom the colored race is more indebted. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 1:09 pm
Guest Post by Samuel F. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 3:42 pm
Justice Samuel Alito also expressed doubt, noting that the issue for Shanmugam’s clients was the ban on digitizing their off-premises billboards. [read post]
7 Oct 2021, 2:00 am
And even though some colonies had official agents to Parliament, like Benjamin Franklin, no colonies had sitting representatives in the British Parliament. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 7:42 am
Abigail Roberson, age 17, was distressed to discover that a photograph of her was being used in an advertisement for the Franklin Mills Flour Company. [read post]
31 May 2021, 10:30 pm
Willard Hurst Book Prize is Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke) for his book, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020). [read post]
28 May 2021, 7:08 am
On June 24, 1798, a little more than two weeks before the acts’ passage, District Judge Peters issued a warrant for the arrest of the founder of the Philadelphia Aurora, Benjamin Franklin Bache – Benjamin Franklin’s grandson – for seditious libel. [read post]
21 May 2021, 10:30 pm
Swanson, Northeastern University, for winning the John Hope Franklin Prize of the Law and Society Association for her article “Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on Invention of a Slave,” and to recent LHB Guest Blogger Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Duke University for winning LSA’s James Willard Hurst Prize for A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020). [read post]
16 Mar 2021, 5:45 am
In Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, the word excise was defined as “a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by the common judges of property but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 5:55 am
Although often forgotten today, her poetry won the admiration of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm
” In the dissenting opinion, Justice Samuel Alito argued that the common understanding of sex discrimination in 1964 was bias against women or men rather than bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
”As almost every student of American history knows, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used that word to describe Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, calling it a “date that will live in infamy. [read post]
