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23 Jun 2018, 8:26 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Andrew Johnson was the president after Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson was a raving racist and drunk and terrible person, so I think he was worse. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Guelzo points out, “colonization was endorsed by an embarrassing number of saints in the antislavery hagiography” including Granville Sharpe, Daniel Webster, Francis Scott Key, John Marshall, James Monroe, the presidents of Princeton, Yale, Columbia and Harvard universities, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln, inter alia.] [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 3:00 pm
For example, Abraham Lincoln, its Illinois leader, simply walked away and attended to his law business. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 5:38 am by Steve Lubet
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln famously observed that “a house divided against itself cannot stand. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 6:24 am
Abraham Navarro, a deputy Floyd County prosecutor, also had applied for the post. [read post]
21 Mar 2005, 7:02 am
Boston College students Scott Allen, Neil Schumacher, and Sarah Thomas were recognized as the Best National Oralist team, with the Alabama team finishing in second place. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by ernst
During his long tenure as Chief Justice, the nation ran toward Civil War, and the Taney Court decided such monumental cases as the challenge of President Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus after a Maryland contemporary and acquaintance of Taney was arrested and held without charges for sabotage.No decision of the Taney Court is more reviled than that of Dred Scott v. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 1:25 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Many of Lincoln’s tasks after the onset of the Civil War involved appeasement: he had to make sure the touchy border states remained in the Union [ergo he could not speak out too forcefully for emancipation]; he had to make sure Britain and France did not join the war on the side of the South [thus his capitulation on the so-called “Trent Affair”) and he had to ensure that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger Taney (author of the notorious Dred Scott decision… [read post]
28 May 2015, 2:59 am by Scott Bomboy
Lincoln also made the Dred Scott decision a central theme of his 1860 presidential campaign. [read post]
28 May 2017, 2:59 am by Scott Bomboy
Lincoln also made the Dred Scott decision a central theme of his 1860 presidential campaign. [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 10:00 am
Simon Entertainment Attorney at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard (The Innocence Project Young Professionals Committee will present Marc with the Advocate for Justice Award on October 25 at the Bowery Hotel in New York City. [read post]
18 Mar 2022, 4:01 am by SHG
Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Damon Runyon’s Nathan Detroit. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Thomas School of Law, and Luke Paulsen, have posted The Great Interpreter, which is forthcoming in First Things (2015):Credit: LCThis essay examines the constitutional legacy of President Abraham Lincoln, the most important constitutional interpreter in our nation's history. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 8:45 am by Dan Ernst
  Here is the abstract:     Credit: LCThis year presents an opportune moment to reexamine President Abraham Lincoln’s approach to executive power. [read post]