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12 Jun 2016, 3:25 am
" Also in the New Rambler Review is Martha Minow's review of Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary by Geoffrey Cowan.The New York Review of Books has a review of David Cole's Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law. [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 12:33 am
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Maybe there is no Heaven. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 10:54 am
In 1910, President William Taft nominated Hughes, the two-time governor of New York, to the Court – in part to remove a likely challenger from the 1912 presidential election. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 5:43 am
On March 13, 1912, President William Taft, a Republican, nominated Mahlon Pitney to succeed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who died in October of 1911. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 11:30 pm
In chapter 3, Schermerhorn examines the ways in which New York merchants-turned-slave traders John Marsh and William Stone took advantage of the growing demand in the 1810s and early 1820s for bonded workers on sugar plantations in Louisiana to coerce conditionally free African Americans in New Jersey to leave their homes for employment. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:10 am
Five presidents in the twentieth century – William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower – made successful Supreme Court nominations in presidential election years. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 12:31 pm
He did this by appointing former slave-holder John Marshall Harlan of Kentucky and, in the election year of 1880, William Woods, a pre-war Democrat who had been a Union general, but who after the war had relocated to Alabama where he became a cotton planter. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 8:55 pm
The first nomination during an election year in the twentieth century came on March 13, 1912, when President William Taft (a Republican) nominated Mahlon Pitney to succeed John Marshall Harlan, who died on October 14, 1911. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 6:55 pm
Of course it helped that Roosevelt’s party controlled the Senate during this time. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 10:00 am
The Article also shows, based on internal executive branch documents that have not previously been discovered or discussed in the literature, how Chief Justice John Roberts, while working in the Justice Department and debating Office of Legal Counsel head Theodore Olson, failed to persuade Attorney General William French Smith that Congress has broad authority to strip the Court’s appellate jurisdiction. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 10:00 pm
I am only starstruck by a handful of people, including the late Justice William Brennan and piano legend McCoy Tyner. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 10:37 am
The Article also shows, based on internal executive branch documents that have not previously been discovered or discussed in the literature, how Chief Justice John Roberts, while working in the Justice Department and debating Office of Legal Counsel head Theodore Olson, failed to persuade Attorney General William French Smith that Congress has broad authority to strip the Court’s appellate jurisdiction. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 12:30 am
Condon seems to be building on work performed in shorter essays by Richard Buel Jr. and William A. [read post]
28 Nov 2015, 6:30 am
Roosevelt’s “Court-packing" plan. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 6:02 pm
President Theodore Roosevelt described him as “a bearded iceberg”; Hughes’s political rival William Randolph Hearst labeled him an “animated feather duster. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 6:00 am
John W. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 5:00 am
Konczal, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, admirably synthesizes academic work by Bill Novak, Jerry Mashaw, Dan Ernst, Anuj Desai, Jeremy Kessler, William Eskridge, Jr., John Ferejohn, and Sophia Lee to demonstrate "American bureaucracy's long and useful history. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 5:00 am
William H. [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 6:30 am
But a new wave of legal history is overturning the narrative of paradise lost.Konczal discusses Jerry Mashaw's Creating the Administrative Constitution, my Tocqueville's Nightmare, William Novak's People's Welfare, William N. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm
This rumor erupted nationally in the 1920 presidential campaign when a racist professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio, William E. [read post]
