…and civil servants. Sometimes the violence was mere theater, lecture halls full of people demanding that victims recant. Sometimes it was real. But it always served a purpose: to provoke,…

…much appreciated too! “A Rhode Island Judge Tells Trump ‘No’”, Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse Tonight, I want to focus on a case you probably haven’t heard about, California v. Department…

…this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In 1863, Lincoln explained, the Civil War was “testing whether that…

…topic. As the story goes John T. Scopes was approached by the American Civil Liberties Union to teach evolution. John Thomas Scopes was a young science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee…

…discuss his view of the hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil case from the courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, where Judge Paula Xinis held the hearing. If you weren’t able to…

…government in its defense was to “attempt to minimize the impact” of the raids by “characteriz[ing] them as limited to a short period of time justified by nearby civil unrest.”…

…decision. A partial of what Joyce Vance from Civil Discourse has to say. Why would you invade a kid’s park? It is irrational and silly. In 1970/71, 10th Marines were…

“Five Questions with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows,” Civil Discourse Shenna Bellows is Maine’s 50th Secretary of State and the first woman to serve in that role. She’s led…

Civil Discourse It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on…

…declared, the nation had been blessed. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, he wrote, Americans had maintained their laws and their institutions and had…