This is the grave of William Johnson. Born in 1771 in St. James Goose Creek Parish (quite a name) South Carolina, Johnson didn't grow up rich. His father was a blacksmith who had moved from New York. But Johnson Sr. was a major supporter of...
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Pema Levy and Ari Berman go double barrel on the true enemy of democracy in this country--John Roberts. The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law.
This is the grave of Robert Jackson. Born in 1892 in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, Jackson grew up in Frewsburg, New York. He had no interest in college but did have.
It seems likely that there is one area where the Supreme Court justices won't let Trump do whatever he wants and of course that's because his tariffs would impact their own pocketbooks. The Supreme Court appeared skeptical of arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump has...
Leah Litman notes that Louisiana v. Callais, which intends to rule the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. is really an attempt to repeal the First Reconstruction, as the VRA came out.
This is the grave of Edward Sanford. Born in 1865 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sanford grew up the son of a prominent Tennessee unionist, one who had moved down from Connecticut.
This is the grave of David Davis. Born rich in Cecil County, Maryland in 1815, Davis went to local schools and then onto Kenyon for college. He graduated in 1832 (it was still early enough when these early graduations were common) and then read for...
Announcement of Judge Samuel A. Alito, JR. as supreme court justice nominee. I don't trust this Court any farther than I can throw Sam Alito (I'd like to at least.
View of the city of San Francisco from Ina Coolbrith Park on July 15, 2021. The small park is perched on the steep incline between Taylor and Mason streets and.
On February 3, 1908, The Supreme Court decided the case of Loewe v. Lawlor. In it, it declared that unions violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by calling for a secondary boycott in solidarity with a strike. As was the case through almost its whole history,...
On December 19, 1940, arguments before the Supreme Court began in U.S. v. Darby Lumber Co. to decide the constitutionality of the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938. In.
This is the grave of Willis Van Devanter. Born in 1859 in Marion, Indiana into a Dutch family, Van Devanter was a Dutch Calvinist his whole life. Oh boy was.