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7 Aug 2015, 2:54 pm
He continues to serve as a teacher and mentor to students, faculty members, and current government officials while occupying the Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 1:13 pm
50 years ago today President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 10:30 am
Edward Blum notes at the WSJ, "Fifty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, legislation he would later identify as the most important of his political career. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 9:47 am
President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act began to address America’s long history of denying black Americans the right to vote. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 9:06 am
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 7:00 am
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 1:01 am
While Vice President Lyndon B. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm
The President has now granted more commutations than the previous four presidents combined and has granted more than any president since Lyndon Johnson.Previous Reforms: In 2010, the President signed the Fair Sentencing Act, bipartisan legislation that eased the disparity in the amounts of powder cocaine and crack cocaine required to trigger certain penalties in the federal system, including rigid mandatory minimum sentences.In 2010, then-Attorney General Eric Holder reversed the… [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 4:47 pm
As ABC News reports:The 46 sentence reductions [Obama granted today] are the most presidential commutations in a single day since at least the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, according to the White House. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 11:30 pm
Consider the Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson, especially the REALLY nutty idea of government providing checks to women who have children out of wedlock…with an interesting caveat, no man in the home.So government removed Dad from the home and that especially affected the black community which 50 years ago had almost 77 percent two-parent households — today that number is barely 25 percent. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 11:06 am
Lyndon McLellan’s decision to go public with the dispute drew a menacing letter from a federal prosecutor about the publicity the case had been getting: “Your client needs to resolve this or litigate it,” Mr. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 7:00 am
Chase"Guns and Butter: The Welfare State, the Carceral State, and the Politics of Exclusion in the Postwar United States," by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann"'A War within Our Own Boundaries': Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State," by Elizabeth Hinton"Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration: Toward a New Political Economy of the Postwar Carceral State," by Alex Lichtenstein"Impossible Criminals: The Suburban… [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 5:55 am
"Said Lyndon Johnson, quoted in Robert A. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:30 pm
President Lyndon Johnson, December 11, 1963 (LC)The other day I had some time on my hands at the National Archives and, as is my wont, started browsing some of its on-line databases. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm
[Michael Greibok, FreedomWorks via Scott Shackford] Maryland delegate alleges that vetoed bill “would have made it easier for criminals to get their forfeited property back,” seemingly unaware that it focused on rights of owners *not* found guilty of anything [Haven Shoemaker, Carroll County Times] Arizona counties said to have nearly free rein in spending money [Arizona Republic via Coyote] I took part last week in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on civil asset forfeiture,… [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 8:39 am
Windsor, 133 S.Ct. 2675 (2013). [3]Imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson giving Martin Luther King’s eulogy in 1968 if you don’t think we’ve made racial progress. [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Wade, which it published the same day Lyndon Johnson died in Texas. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 1:01 am
Burger Earl Warren announced he was retiring while Lyndon Johnson was still President, but Nixon sent word to Congressional Republications to block any candidate named by Johnson so that Nixon could appoint the justice. [read post]
21 Jun 2015, 12:30 am
"Naomi Murakawa, a political scientist and associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton, has written an interesting book that blames both features on American liberals—in particular Harry Truman, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton (and Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden)—and American liberalism. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 2:56 am
President Lyndon Johnson Three days after oral arguments in Hearts of Atlanta Motel v. [read post]
