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27 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Irina Manta, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Blake, the Court wrote that “[t]he district of Columbia, or the territory west of the Missouri, is not less within the United States, than Maryland or Pennsylvania. [read post]
3 Apr 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
Hodge, arising in the District of Columbia, the Chief Justice similarly noted that the petitioners James and Mary Hurd were "found by the trial court to be Negroes," even though James Hurd had maintained that he was "not a Negro, but a Mohawk Indian. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
Their images should be treated with the same scorn as those depicting Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the execrable decision in Dred Scott v. [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Ever since the Court’s watershed decision in District of Columbia v. [read post]
4 May 2021, 4:23 pm by Sandy Levinson
  (And even if it had, one can be sure that, as with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, they would have had no vote and concomitantly little actual influence). [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” [This became painfully evident in the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 1:42 pm by Sonia Gill
Admission ActThis bill would grant statehood to the residential areas of the current District of Columbia as the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, and defines the reduced federal territory that would continue to serve as the seat of the federal government, consistent with the U.S. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 12:26 am by David Kopel
Bruen, the Court may consider whether to elaborate on its statement in District of Columbia v. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:13 am by Ronald Collins
In December 1833, the American Monthly Review commented on a newly published book by Joseph Story. [read post]