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25 Nov 2008, 9:17 am
Jury nullification was also used frequently in the Jim Crow South to thwart the prosecutions of Ku Klux Klan members and other whites who had intimidated, attacked, and murdered blacks. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
” In 2009, he published “Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:27 pm by Gail Heriot and John Eastman
  If the Court had deferred to their judgment, we might still be in the thrall of Jim Crow. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 9:55 am
As for the Imus show's chronic Jim Crow content, he expressed ignorance. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:24 am by Roger Clegg
It can’t be an observation about growing up as a slave, or under Jim Crow, or during the Civil Rights Era – because the eighteen-year-old students getting these preferences in 2012 were born in, let’s see, 1994, thirty years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 6:05 am by Maria J. Stephan
The post-Reconstruction “Jim Crow”-era system of racial apartheid in the South, upheld by local authoritarian rule anchored at that time in the Democratic Party, was a blatant example of political violence used to advance racial authoritarianism. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 1:09 pm by Dan Ernst
”Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law (anne.fleming@law.georgetown.edu), ProfessorHousehold Borrowing and Bankruptcy in Jim Crow AmericaCaley Horan, MIT (cdhoran@mit.edu) Associate Professor “Investing in the stars: Astrology and capitalism in modern America”Gautham Rao, American University (grao@american.edu) American University, Associate Professor“The Master's State: Slavery and the American State. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 8:34 am by Jay A. Fernandez
This was adding insult to injury since many of these majority-Black neighborhoods had sprung up in the first place because of redlining and Jim Crow segregation. [read post]
29 May 2024, 3:52 pm by Reference Staff
”The authority of the white male author lies upon centuries of legal history establishing a hierarchical distribution of resources and power that began with slavery and continued with Black Codes and Jim Crow. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 2:56 am by NCC Staff
The move gutted the Privilege and Immunities Clause of its effect and kept the door open for Jim Crow laws in the South. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 1:50 pm by Geoffrey Rapp
Hughes, Jr., Book Note, Reviewing Bill Madden, Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, 21 MARQUETTE SPORTS LAW REVIEW 801 (2011)Michelle R. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 9:51 am by Erin Miller
  In the height of the Jim Crow era, Powell possessed a legendary skill for utilizing (some say manipulating) committee procedure to win support for his pet projects and to kill bills that he opposed. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:01 am by Joshua Braver
But the new Constitution—the Constitution not of the Founding Fathers but of Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
An attorney for Harlan Crow told the committee Crow did not have to answer questions about reports Thomas did not disclose that Crow had provided luxury vacations for the justice, bought property from him and paid for a relative’s private education. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 1:43 pm by Hunter Biederman
Yes, Jim, Judges do need to Follow the Law but by golly so does the District Attorney's office! [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:19 am
He was gored and possibly crushed * 1862: Jim Creighton, baseball player, died when he swung a bat too hard and ruptured his bladder. * 1868: Matthew Vassar, brewer and founder of Vassar College, died in mid-speech while delivering his farewell address to the College Board of Trustees. * 1897: Salomon August Andrée, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg died in October 1897 at Kvitöya (White Island) (located to the northeast of Svalbard) where… [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at a Federalist Society Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]