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10 Sep 2020, 1:12 pm by Sandy Levinson
  The first session of a reading course I'm giving this semester on the political thought of Abraham Lincoln focused on his well-known address in 1838 to the Springfield Lyceum, surely the most-studied political speech in American, or perhaps world, history presented by a 29-year-old unknown to an obscure community gathering. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Demonstrating the breathtaking grandiosity that characterizes NPD, the President, at the Republican convention, offered, “I say very modestly that I have done more for the African American community than any President since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican President. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 11:26 am by Ashoka Mukpo
 “Irish and Italian immigrants, along with some white-passing Latinx immigrants, can assimilate into white America,” said Abraham Paulos, director of policy and communications for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Douglass was twice invited to the White House to see President Abraham Lincoln, and then acted as a recruiter for African American troops. [read post]
30 Aug 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
As in the previous instance he disavowed advance knowledge of the measure, declaring: I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, proclaim and declare, that the government of the United States, had no knowledge, information, or belief, of an intention on the part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation; nor has it yet, any authentic information that the document is genuine–  And further, that neither General Hunter, nor any other commander, or person, has been… [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 11:15 am by Sandy Levinson
As we endure the truly obscene Republican Convention--the only thing it's lacking is Leni Reifenstahl as the official photographer--I cannot help wonder about the proclivity of the Trumpistas to embrace themselves in the mantle of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 7:00 am by Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
The Library has the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets from the night he was assassinated at Ford’s Theater. [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 6:18 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Abraham, 30 N.Y.3d 325 (2017), that the punitive damages test under the City law is less burdensome than under federal law (requiring only recklessness but not malice). [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am by Sandy Levinson
”  Thus wrote Abraham Lincoln in notes that he used to prepare his notable speeches. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 9:15 am by Tom Smith
Despite the historic nature of this agreement, the Abraham Accord hasn’t received the kind of coverage it deserves. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 4:17 pm by Sandy Levinson
  The authors twice quote Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and its plea for a politics of “malice toward none and charity toward all. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 7:01 am by Kurt M. Campbell, Ali Wyne
Editor’s Note: China is becoming more aggressive in Asia, and the potential for a confrontation with the United States is growing. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 1:24 pm by Ilya Somin
Abraham Lincoln once said that "[w]hen [immigrants] look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'; and then they feel that that moral sentiment, taught in that day, evidences their relation to those men… and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration; and so… [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:09 am by tortsprof
At JOTWELL, Ken Simons reviews Ken Abraham and Ted White's Conceptualizing Tort Law: The Continuous (and Continuing) Struggle. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 4:28 pm by Kenneth Propp, Peter Swire
The Legal Importance of Individual Redress The Schrems II case already has elicited multiple responses on Lawfare alone, including our own, Stewart Baker’s stern criticism of the judgment and Henry Farrell’s and Abraham Newman’s more hopeful view that the case creates an opportunity for positive reform of U.S. intelligence law. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 9:35 am by Tom Smith
The Associated Press calls this “a rare diplomatic win” for Donald Trump, but the Abraham Agreement is huge. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 4:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Abraham Lincoln learned he’d won in 1860 by staking out the telegraph office until the wee hours of the morning. [read post]