Here are some things the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia does: hear most cases against federal agencies, serve as a Supreme Court farm team, act as the effective court of last resort for Guantanamo detainees, and play a legal and policymaking role second only to that of the Supreme Court. Here is something the D.C Circuit [...]
In 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a black woman, lay in bed in their Virginia home. Their marriage license, issued in the District of Columbia, hung over their bed. They were torn from that bed when a grand jury indicted them for violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws. According to the State Supreme Court of Virginia, these laws [...]
Last Thursday was the 220th anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights. Congress, apparently feeling that 220 years was a nice round number, decided that this would be the perfect time to repudiate most of the basic principles that document embodies. This rather impressive feat was achieved through the National Defense Authorization Act, of which you can get [...]
On August 31, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt went to Osawatomie, Kansas to give a speech that laid out his vision for America. He called it New Nationalism, and it called for major, striking changes in national policy. President Roosevelt wanted to regulate corporate influence, provide better social services, step up “conservation” and provide safeguards for working people. He promised a [...]
It has taken on Cold War-like tones: the United States on one end and China on the other, polarized. What might be one of their gains is another one’s loss, making relations between the two little more than another iteration of the zero-sum game. This likeness to the Cold War has been developing for some years. It began with the [...]
Occupy Wall Street is determined to show the world that middle-aged white people aren’t the only Americans who can get angry. Young white people can get angry too! And they’re angry about… money and stuff. This isn’t to say that there aren’t legitimate issues to be raised about money and stuff. The Republican intransigence over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [...]
The U.S. economy is very much like a car: for years the engine worked, but not so much anymore. It is not enough to just oil it up over and over. For a while that might get the car working, but eventually it will stall yet again. What it needs, in the end, is a full-service repair. Last month, President [...]
On Friday in the city of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke before reporters. “We need to have full membership at the U.N.,” he began, the reporters taking it in. “We need a state, a seat at the United Nations.” While it was not necessarily misguided for President Abbas to try to apply for U.N. membership, his way of going [...]
Standard & Poor’s recently downgraded the U.S. to a double-A plus rating for the first time in almost seventy years. No longer can the U.S. be counted among the ranks of triple-A nations such as Germany, France, Canada, and the U.K.—not after the succession of economic crises that began before 2007 and which have only continued since then. But was [...]
Congress has the ability to keep the US Treasury solvent or let the nation spiral into serious economic despair, dragging the rest of the developed world with it. But time is running out. Our government can’t seem to put its political differences aside. What it needs to do is reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the [...]
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