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25 Jun 2021, 3:58 am
Shirer Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Comey Rule, on Showtime Fred “Gargantuanisation,” by John Lanchester, London Review of Books Jonathan Why Does the C.I.A. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 7:30 am
Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation whose belated enforcement Juneteenth celebrates—put it best in his famous speech on the Declaration of Independence and its implications for slavery: I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in all respects…. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
One explanation is that Lash believes that law students, fellow academics, and judges, including committed originalists, should take them seriously and treat them as fully seriously as plausible interpretations of the Constitution even if, obviously, they did not prevail against more conventional lawyers like Daniel Webster or Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:21 am
At the same time, however, Republicans across the country — egged on by Fox News and the right-wing media chorus — are trying to pass laws barring schools from teaching the factual history of racism and white supremacy in this country under the guise of attacking “critical race theory,” a set of academic concepts they stripped of its original meaning and context.Stock response: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.Better response: "Supporting the Juneteenth holiday… [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 11:59 am
While chattel slavery’s end is often tied to President Abraham Lincoln’s declaration of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1,1863, 250,000 slaves in Texas didn’t learn of their freedom until June 19, 1865 — when Union General Gordon Granger arrived with an army to liberate them and announced that “[the] people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 11:44 am
” On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation declaring that as of Jan. 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 7:30 am
They will be an invaluable source of material (and insight) for anyone charged with teaching courses on the Constitution, whether to law students, undergraduates, or graduate students, or, for that matter, for any general readers with the patience to read the often fascinating debates over the nature of the Union following Appomattox and, save for some of the debates about the 13th Amendment, the death of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 1:57 pm
This Saturday, June 19, 2021, is Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 that Union soldiers reached Texas and the African Americans living there, who only then learned that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, declaring freedom for the more than three million slaves living in the Confederate states. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 11:31 am
Juneteenth was celebrated as “Emancipation Day” in some southern states after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to declare “all persons held as slaves” in rebellious states as free people. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 8:49 am
It also recently added head of enterprise compliance Ian Rooney from Morgan Stanley; associate GC for commercial Molly Abraham from flying car company Kitty Hawk Inc; and associate GC for consumer product Lindsay Danas Cohen from Velocity Markets Inc, a digital asset firm now owned by Securitize Inc. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 4:57 pm
Abraham Lincoln was a railroad lawyer and a good one I hear. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 7:23 am
To many in Washington, the rise of China and the revanchism of Russia herald the return of great power competition. [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 10:28 am
” This, Abraham Lincoln believed, “was the true, genuine principle of free labor . . . and so it may go on and on in one ceaseless round so long as man exists on the face of the earth! [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 7:29 am
Lee Bailey along with Edward Bennet Williams (read the biography "The Man to See"), was the first generation of criminal defense attorney superstars (OK Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, and others have a place in the early 18th and 19th centuries but Lee Bailey is the first famous criminal defense attorney in the last half of the 20th century). [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 6:28 am
” Abraham Lincoln Stay tuned for updates. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 6:14 am
Coming in a strong but distant second place is Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
They took advantage of the peculiarities of the electoral college to elect an antislavery president with less than two-fifths of the popular vote (Donald Trump obtained a much higher percentage of the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 than Abraham Lincoln). [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Chase, and Abraham Lincoln forged a new vocabulary of liberty and equality that centered on the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, which in Bingham’s hands became the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 12:14 pm
The event will be moderated by Eileen Donahoe, executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford, and the panelists are Ahmed Shaheed, senior lecturer at the University of Essex; Mona Elswah, DPhil candidate at Oxford University; Mahsa Alimardani, DPhil candidate at Oxford University; Mohamad Najem, executive director of Social Media Exchange; James Shires, assistant professor at the University of Leiden; and Alexei Abrahams, postdoctoral research fellow at the… [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Chase, probably the major “mainstream” anti-slavery lawyer of the 1850s (who would become Abraham Lincoln’s nominee to succeed Roger Taney as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1863). [read post]
