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12 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Another Oath Keeper with Links to Roger Stone Charged in Capitol Riot Politico – Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein | Published: 3/9/2021 A second member of the Oath Keepers militia who provided security to longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone has been charged with storming and breaching the Capitol. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal After Capitol Riot, Desperate Families Turn to Groups That ‘Deprogram’ Extremists MSN – Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles (Washington Post) | Published: 2/5/2021 There is a surge of desperate families and friends calling organizations that aim to deradicalize and “deprogram” extremists across the ideological spectrum. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
– A PLANTER” Historian Byron DeLear speculates that “A Planter” could have been Jefferson, other well-known Virginians like Patrick Henry, or northerners like Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
Neither Franklin nor Thomas Jefferson attended, but in addition to Adams, the delegates included Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, John Jay, John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee,  George Washington, and John Adams’ cousin, Samuel Adams. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Special Counsel Henry Kerner, who was appointed by President Trump, cited at least nine high-level Trump appointees for abusing their government roles to further the president’s reelection or disparage his rivals. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:22 am by NCC Staff
News of the protests, the actions of the Stamp Congress, and the publication of Patrick Henry’s Virginia Resolves fueled anger across the colonies, and many colonies saw their own versions of the Sons of Liberty created. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 11:06 am by Andrew Koppelman
  Poor pedagogical choices are not, however, an appropriate object of continuing denunciation and punishment.Strangely, much has been made of the fact that the veracity of the quotation from Patrick Henry that McConnell used is disputed among historians. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 9:08 am
For those of you interested in comparative constitutionalism in general, and Latin American Marxist-Leninist Constitutional development more specifically, on behalf of my co-authors Flora Sapio (Naples) and  James Korman (Penn State), I am delighted to announce the publication of our article: "Popular Participation in the Constitution of the Illiberal State: An Empirical Study of Popular Engagement and Constitutional Reform in Cuba and the Contours of Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0,"… [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 12:15 pm by Ernie Svenson
Speaking of disruptive tech businesses… Have you heard of Patrick Collison, the founder of Stripe? [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The WETA history blog reports that a number of Founding Fathers came to stay and/or eat there, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 1:37 pm by Eugene Volokh
Jason Johnston, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law; Armistead M. [read post]
Legislators in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the site of Patrick Henry’s infamous “Give me liberty, or give me death” speech, have enacted legislation that gives more liberty to low-wage workers looking to leave for greener pastures, joining the ranks of many other states that have passed similar restrictions (stay tuned for a post soon on Indiana’s own recently passed non-compete legislation application to physicians). [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 10:07 am by Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent
Henry Jackson both introduced bills specifying that the FBI director could be fired by the president only for good cause. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 4:05 pm by David Kopel
" Henry Mayer, A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Revolution 251 (1991). [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
Didn’t Patrick Henry say “give me pizza, or give me death”? [read post]