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22 May 2007, 12:05 pm
On this day in history, May 22, 1856, United States Representative Preston Brooks criminally attacked Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate, beating Sumner on the head with a... [read post]
12 Sep 2009, 4:18 pm
CNN is reporting that the Congressman from South Carolina, Preston Brooks, who attacked and beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a stout cane, has raised a million dollars from his admirers in just the past couple of days. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 5:52 am by Charles Sartain
*ConocoPhillips was represented by Darin Brooks, Meagan Glover, and John George of Gray Reed. [read post]
22 May 2015, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a metal-tipped cane, leaving Sumner seriously injured. [read post]
22 May 2018, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a metal-tipped cane, leaving Sumner seriously injured. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 5:46 pm by John Jascob
A Brookings Institution blog post says that banks’ higher capital and liquidity positions now than in 2007 is allowing banking regulators to encourage banks to use their capital and liquidity buffers to support new lending, and to work with borrowers to modify existing loans. [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 12:32 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
On Wednesday, minutes after the decision was announced, another binational same-sex married couple, Sean and Steven Brooks, was spared the threat of separation due to deportation. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 1:57 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
”]  In a recently “discovered” Associated Press story of July 5, 1933, owner George Preston Marshall of the National Football League’s Boston franchise is quoted as saying that he was changing the team’s name from “Braves” to “Redskins” to avoid confusion with Boston’s baseball Braves. [read post]
30 May 2023, 3:29 am by SHG
Joseph Brooks, the 18-year-old who confessed to shooting Preston, had been arrested nine times since 2019 for armed robbery and carjacking, among other things. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 5:44 am
View the article hereMore proof the public cannot handle the sex offender registry.11/02/2007Two men who targeted a neighbor because they believed local rumors he was a sex offender, have both been jailed.They went round to his home in Clayton Brook in order to frighten him, Preston Crown Court was told.He was not in his flat but they stole what a judge called a "huge amount of property. [read post]
8 Jun 2019, 4:47 am by Hadley Baker, Vishnu Kannan
Preston Lim released the first installation of his new column on Canadian national security. [read post]
4 May 2010, 1:33 pm by Rick
“By this time, I was completely in tears,” Brook said. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm by Old Fox
  What happened to Democrat Preston Brooks following his vicious attack on Sumner? [read post]
8 Jun 2014, 9:00 pm by Ritika Singh
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and DoD General Counsel Stephen Preston will testify. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 3:08 am
Crosspost from Freakonomics: Representative Joe Wilson's much discussed "You Lie" outburst last Wednesday during President Obama's health care speech has been compared to the 1856 savage caning that Representative Preston Brooks delivered to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner (for example, see here and here). [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 7:41 am by Clara Spera
Jack also commented on Preston’s speech on Friday. [read post]
23 Mar 2019, 6:18 am by Lev Sugarman
Rachel Brown and Preston Lim brought us up to speed on recent developments in U.S. [read post]
11 May 2019, 5:36 am by Mikhaila Fogel
The Brookings Institution hosted a special event on Friday for a live taping of the Lawfare Podcast: a conversation between former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker and Benjamin Wittes about the Russia investigation. [read post]