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7 Jun 2022, 10:32 am by Roger Parloff
In that statute, Congress exercised its power under Section 3 to lift the disabilities that the provision had imposed upon large categories of Confederate officers and officials—in essence, all but the highest-ranking ones, like Confederate president Jefferson Davis. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 10:15 am by Guest Blogger
  (Bennett Ostdiek & John Fabian Witt, “The Czar and the Slaves,” American Journal of International Law, volume 113, issue 3, July 2019, pp. 535-67). [read post]
24 May 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  It is another thing to believe that one must honor Thomas Jefferson as the primary author of that document. [read post]
20 May 2022, 8:00 am by Robert Kreisman
John Tsucalas, 76, suffered from dementia and was admitted to Meadowview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. [read post]
18 May 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Most histories claim that Jefferson somehow engineered the deal at a dinner party; Stewart contends this was largely a re-writing by Jefferson of what happened. [read post]
13 May 2022, 2:19 pm by Eugene Volokh
From Justice William Crain's opinion today (joined by Justices Scott Crichton, James Genovese, Jay McCallum, and Jefferson Hughes III) in State v. [read post]
11 May 2022, 8:06 am by Nathan Dorn
George Washington commissioned Thomas Jefferson to head the new Department of State on September 26, 1789, but Jefferson did not join the administration until March 22, 1790, at which time Jay stepped down. [read post]
6 May 2022, 6:10 am by Noah J. Phillips
” Recognizing that the Sherman Act could be read to bar all contracts, federal courts for over a century have interpreted the 1890 antitrust law only to apply to “unreasonable” restraints of trade.[7] The Supreme Court first adopted this concept in its landmark 1911 decision in Standard Oil, upholding the lower court’s dissolution of John D. [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:36 pm by Jeffrey Rosen
His prediction came to a head in the controversy of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, where the Federalist Congress made it a crime to criticize the Federalist President, John Adams, but not the Republican Vice President, Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
            John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (1984), 77. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 12:10 pm by Lawrence Solum
And from the text: [Mercy Otis] Warren was prominent even among Amar’s Big Six [Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, & Washington]: many of them corresponded with and praised her, and she argued with John Adams over the form of the American republic and the proper interpretation of the American Revolution. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 6:00 am by jonathanturley
Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 6:23 am by Ryan Goodman
Khan QC stated that the ICC would open a third investigation against Russia for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Russian invasion into Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022; Whereas Ukraine has also filed a claim in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation related to genocide under the Genocide Convention; and … The Senate— … (2) encourages member states to petition the ICC or other… [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
After the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia eliminated standardized tests from the admissions criteria for the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Asian-American enrollment dropped from an average of 71% to 54% for the class of 2025. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 10:44 am by David Frakt
  Similar issues led John Marshall Atlanta to abandon its Savannah Law School branch campus. [read post]