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Commentary Alito Day 1: Of Kabuki Dances and Subtle Minuets
Alito Day 1: Of Kabuki Dances and Subtle Minuets
Jeremiah Lee
January 10, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Wermiel of American University Washington College of Law says that it is important to watch not only the posturing that began yesterday inside the hearing room for Judge Samuel Alito, but also to monitor the spin,...

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Commentary Playing With Fire: Congress and Executive Power
Playing With Fire: Congress and Executive Power
Jeremiah Lee
January 9, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that while senators are likely to query Judge Samuel Alito this week about his views on executive power, they themselves have dangerously indulged it without setting clear limitations,...

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Commentary The Alito Hearings: Exploring Executive Power
The Alito Hearings: Exploring Executive Power
Jeremiah Lee
January 8, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that recent national security issues involving controversial exercises of executive power should encourage senators to carefully analyze Judge Samuel Alito's perspectives on executive authority, security and...

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Commentary The Alito Hearings: What Not to Ask
The Alito Hearings: What Not to Ask
Jeremiah Lee
January 8, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Wendy J. Keefer, former senior counsel and chief of staff in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy and now with Bancroft Associates in Washington DC, says that in keeping with their constitutional role...

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Commentary Judging Alito: The US Supreme Court Selection System on Trial
Judging Alito: The US Supreme Court Selection System on Trial
Jeremiah Lee
January 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Bryan Horrigan of Macquarie University Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the upcoming confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito are a trial not just of the nominee, but of the uniquely-American system of public judicial...

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Commentary McCain Undermined: The 'Obedience to Orders' Defense
McCain Undermined: The 'Obedience to Orders' Defense
Jeremiah Lee
January 6, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the McCain Amendment on...

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Commentary Chief Justice Roberts and the Misguided Call for Judicial Pay Raises
Chief Justice Roberts and the Misguided Call for Judicial Pay Raises
Jeremiah Lee
January 5, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Scott Gerber of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law says that the case for higher salaries for federal judges is far less clear than Chief Justice Roberts and others make it out to be... William H....

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Commentary The UK Terrorism Bill: Defending Democracy's Core Values
The UK Terrorism Bill: Defending Democracy's Core Values
Jeremiah Lee
January 3, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...

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Commentary Schwarzenegger's Mistake: Clemency and Tookie Williams
Schwarzenegger's Mistake: Clemency and Tookie Williams
Jeremiah Lee
December 27, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, says that California Arnold Schwarzenegger's ruling denying clemency in ths case of Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams disregarded the constitutional foundations of...

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Commentary Not Authorized By Law: Domestic Spying and Congressional Consent
Not Authorized By Law: Domestic Spying and Congressional Consent
Jeremiah Lee
December 23, 2005 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that contrary to assertions by President Bush and the US Department of Justice, post-9/11 Congressional legislation on the use of military force against terrorists does not authorize...

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White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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