This is the grave of Charles Whittaker. Born in 1901 on a farm outside of Troy, Kansas, there was little about Whittaker's youth that suggested where he would end up. His father ran the farm and his mother was a teacher. In 1917, she died...
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If there's one thing that unites all Republicans is that workers should have no rights at all. That leads to the annual chipping away of labor rights at the Supreme.
This is the grave of John Marshall Harlan. Born in 1833 in Boyle County, Kentucky, Harlan grew up as a member of the slaveholding elite. His father was a huge.
This is the grave of Horace Gray. Born in 1828 in Boston, Gray came out of the early republic Boston elite. His grandfather was William Gray, who had built a family empire and became New England's richest man. Gray's politics were definitely shaped by the...
This is the grave of Pierce Butler. Born in 1866 in Waterford, Minnesota, Pierce Butler was the child of Irish immigrants making a good of it on the Minnesota prairie..
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen is going to really make us all feel great that Stephen Breyer thinks the Supreme Court is not politicized. Support.
This is the grave of Robert Grier. Born in 1794 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Grier grew up the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was home-schooled by his father and then sent to Dickinson College. He was able to graduate after only one year, in...
This is the grave of Arthur Goldberg. Born in 1908 in Chicago, Goldberg grew up as the son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. His father died in 1916. He.
Most certainly the Washington Post editorial board can be very, very wrong. But in arguing that a solution for the problems of the courts is term limits instead of court-packing,.
On January 25, 1915, the Supreme Court decided the case of Coppage v. Kansas, allowing employers to force workers to sign yellow-dog contracts, making not joining a union a condition of employment. This case, so typical of the Gilded Age Supreme Court and the Court...
This is the grave of Owen Roberts. Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Roberts was the son of a prosperous hardware merchant. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and edited the.
The first time I gave a book talk about Out of Sight, there was someone in the audience who worked on these issues and couldn't get past that I was.