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. . . the Sleeping Giant is Roaring

…giant roared again a decade later, after television showed civil rights marchers getting clobbered by white supremacists. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. It roared again after tens of thousands…

The Necessary and Improper Clause?

…federal civil-commitment statute, 18 U.S.C. § 4248, authorizes the Department of Justice to detain a mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoner beyond the date the prisoner would otherwise be released….

Counterterrorism blog

…our civil liberties. Such matters should be considered with gravity and thorough deliberation. And there is much in this act which deserves further deliberation. Many of its current provisions were…

…over 24 hours) trying, thankfully in vain, to block passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Thurmond “Blue Slipped” black and pro-civil rights judicial nominees. But most of all, he…

September 13, 2013, the date of publication of the initial Orlando Sentinel article reporting that Bondi’s office was considering joining the New York AG’s fraud lawsuit against Trump U., was … a Friday. The Trump Foundation’s check to Bondi’s PAC arrived on September 17, the following … Tuesday. Bondi’s office responded to the Sentinel reporter’s Aug. 29 inquiry HOW many days before the article was published, exactly? And WHAT was the date of that late-summer phone call Bondi made to Trump?

…involve a prosecutor’s office or a government agency charged with civil enforcement dropping a criminal or civil-law-enforcement investigation or a decision not to pursue possible criminal charges or civil-law-enforcement action….