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This essay … seeks to document the pivotal role of Emergency! in producing an array of legal changes that resulted…
7/11/1921: Chief Justice William Howard Taft takes oath. Chief Justice William Howard TaftThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July…
from the truth-and-fiction-and-ai dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published…
Six weeks ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of COGE, the Commission on Government Efficiency. While…
Two teenagers were detained by police in San Mateo, California, earlier this week after a Waymo representative alerted law enforcement…
The U.S. government came to like the work of historian David Kahn, who passed away in 2024. The National Security…
Stay-at-home moms: Reader, let me take your hand and guide you to a realm of the internet that I inhabit,…
7/9/1868: The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified. The Fourteenth AmendmentThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July 9, 1868 appeared first…
It’s Sunday. You want to go into town to run errands and perhaps see your friends at a bar, but…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled in favor of Ausencio Martinez, finding that Illinois…
from the gestapo-of-our-own dept ICE has already been operating like a paramilitary kidnapping squad. Officers roam through neighborhoods, stake out…
What are the limits of executive power, and how should such limits be enforced by the courts? If there was…