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14 Apr 2024, 4:52 pm by Ilya Somin
Pope Francis is socially conservative on issues like abortion. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 4:31 am by Gwendolyn Whidden
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR — INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE In his annual Easter message, Pope Francis called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
City Councilmember Curren Price Accused of 21 Violations of City Ethics Laws MSN – James Queally, David Zahniser, and Dakota Smith (Los Angeles Times) | Published: 3/27/2024 The Los Angeles Ethics Commission has privately accused city Councilperson Curren Price of voting on matters in which his wife had a financial interest. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
John Barned-Smith (San Francisco Chronicle) | Published: 3/8/2024 Executives at Recology, one of San Francisco’s largest contractors, needed a favor in 2018 from then-Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, so they paid him a bribe to help fund his extravagant annual department holiday party. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The line of questioning suggests that long after the FBI seized dozens of boxes and more than 100 documents marked classified from Mar-a-Lago, Smith’s team was trying to determine if there might still be more classified material there. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
In 1868, the Senate refused to seat Philip Francis Thomas of Maryland, who served as treasury secretary under President Buchanan.[26] Championing the refusal, Senator Jacob Howard argued that when "principal public functionaries" including Thomas and Floyd had resigned from Buchanan's cabinet, they had been perfectly aware of the cabal "endeavoring to … beleaguer the city of Washington with the design of seizing it … and, at all events,… [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Super PAC Plans a Historic $250 Million Ad Blitz DNyuz – Reid Epstein and Shane Goldmacher (New York Times) | Published: 1/30/2024 The main Democratic super PAC supporting President Biden’s re-election bid, Future Forward, is beginning to reserve $250 million in advertising across the most important battleground states. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 12:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
., American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition OPTIONAL READINGS 1) Michael Oakeshott, On Being Conservative, parts 1, 3, 4 (superb discussion of conservatism as a "disposition" and its relationship to politics) 2) Edmund Burke, Excerpts from Reflections on the Revolution in France; Letter to William Elliot, May 26, 1795 (canonical discussions of conservatism) 3) Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents (discussion of modern challenges to and criticisms of… [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”Reuters also reports that “Smith’s lawyers have said the untested gassing protocol likely violates the U.S. [read post]
2 Jan 2024, 7:41 pm by Thomas James
Down-Hearted Blues recorded by Bessie Smith. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 5:18 am by Just Security
The filing came in response to a request by special counsel Jack Smith for the Supreme Court to expedite a decision on the question as part of ongoing litigation involving Trump’s actions challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 1:30 am
Francis of Philadelphia (Aston, Pennsylvania), and Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary, U.S. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 7:30 am
Here are some highlights: Watch a Recording of our Constitution Day Event An Interview with Ali Smith, Public Services Intern with the Law Library of Congress New Law Library Report Examines Cybersecurity Laws of Several Countries New Law Library Report on Lobbying and Foreign Agent Registration Laws Observing Native American Heritage Month and Veterans History Month at the NMAI Collection Highlights: The Many Lawbooks of Francis Hilliard Join Us on 12/7 for Human Rights… [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The court partially blocked Smith’s effort in a ruling that relied on the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause. [read post]
19 Nov 2023, 11:28 am by admin
Cranor and Thomas Smith Martyn Thomas served as partisan paid expert witnesses in the notorious Milward case.[9] After the trial court excluded the proffered opinions of Cranor and Smith, plaintiff appealed, with the help of an amicus brief filed by The Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT). [read post]
17 Nov 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Smith’s team urged a federal appeals court to reinstate the gag order, which a three-judge panel suspended earlier in November amid Trump’s appeal of the restrictions imposed by U.S. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
She barred Trump from continuing to publicly berate special counsel Jack Smith and his team, court staff, or any “reasonably foreseeable witness. [read post]