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11 May 2017, 5:56 am by Terry Hart
Legislative History As recounted elsewhere, the Office’s creation within the Library of Congress is the result of efforts by former Librarian Ainsworth Spofford beginning in the 1870s to centralize copyright deposits within the Library—the idea was to use these deposit copies, required under the current copyright act to perfect title to copyright, to build the Library’s collections for free. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Calvin Johnson For the Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution.Michael Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (Oxford 2016) is an opponent’s history of the adoption of the American Constitution. [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
For the Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution.Begin with the blurbs. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 7:19 am
Here's the abstract:The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, signed in February of 2016, is an ambitious effort to set high standards on a ‘mega-regional’ level. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 2:51 am by Scott Bomboy
The word filibuster came into use a decade later, to describe these “dilatory” efforts. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So if Pfaff wants reformers to focus mainly on violent offenses, they'd have to consider sentence length much more than he suggests.Not only is Pfaff wrong to belittle efforts to reduce penalties for nonviolent offenses, he's also wrong that doing so precludes focus on reducing incarceration of people convicted of violent crimes in state prisons. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 4:45 am by Jordan Brunner
Quinta Jurecic and Helen Klein Murillo provided an explainer on executive privilege and the White House’s apparent efforts to prevent Sally Yates from testifying before HPSCI. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 10:32 am by Quinta Jurecic
Seamus Hughes and Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens examined ISIS’s use of “virtual entrepreneurs. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 12:22 pm by Jordan Brunner
Russia and China sat out on the opening General Assembly session, with Russia having voted against the effort last fall and China abstaining. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 9:24 am by Rishabh Bhandari, Jordan Brunner
In the Foreign Policy Essay, Jacob Stokes and Alexander Sullivan argued that China will not fix North Korea, offering four other areas of focus instead. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 7:22 am by Joy Waltemath
“The issue for workers today is not whether they belong to a union,” Alexander said. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 3:03 am by Walter Olson
; The eternal recycling of bad old ideas: efforts to bring back public ownership of banks persist [East Bay Express, Oakland; earlier] Statutes of limitations protect us from spending life anxious about distant past coming back to haunt us over half-forgotten slights [Ilya Shapiro, Thaya Brook Knight, and David McDonald on Kokesh v. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) reportedly said state-level officials and teachers “were fed up with Washington telling them so much about what to do about their children,” but Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) reportedly warned that the rule actually “helps make sure students can make informed decisions” about education. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 8:36 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
Defense attorney Benson Varghese, Managing Partner of Varghese Summersett, called the teen’s efforts “phenomenal. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
As Alexander Hamilton observed in Federalist 78, courts have neither the power of the purse nor of the sword, and thus must ultimately depend on political actors for the fulfillment of their judgments. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 9:30 am by Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic
i The Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the presidency are spare, and in every formal sense, at least, Donald J. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 7:43 pm
There, of course is the tragedy of the vision--not in its efforts to radically recast Americanism (that is fair in politics and ideological battles) but in the deployment of this radicalism that in the name of progress would cast us back to a time that cannot be recreated, that has come and gone. [read post]