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Will Trump provoke a crisis of legitimacy for the US supreme court?

The court can only rescue Trump from the Colorado ruling by shredding originalism and textualism. Will it?

The Guardian - US · Dec 26, 2023

‘You better pray’: Christian nationalist groups are mobilizing before the 2024 elections

‘Patriot’ groups – which deny Trump’s 2020 defeat and are pressing for voting restrictions – are proliferating

The Guardian - US · Dec 24, 2023

Scholar explains why Trump disqualified

People cannot substitute force, violence or intimidation for persuasion, coalition building and voting

Salon · Dec 20, 2023

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Why 14th Amendment bars Trump from office: A constitutional law scholar explains principle behind Colorado Supreme Court ruling

In 2024, former President Donald Trump will face some of his greatest challenges: criminal court cases, primary opponents and constitutional challenges to his eligibility to hold the office of president again. The Colorado Supreme Court has pushed that latter piece to the forefront, ruling on Dec. 19, 2023, that Trump…

The Conversation · Dec 20, 2023

Jefferson Davis: President of the United States?

Five Responses to the Jefferson Davis Horrible

Reason · Dec 8, 2023

'Spider-Man 2' Plot: 6 Crucial Story Details You Need to Remember

Spider-Man 2 is out on October 20. Here are six crucial plot points from 'Marvel's Spider-Man' and 'Spider-Man: Miles Morales' you need to remember.

Inverse · Oct 17, 2023

Insurrectionists Who Think they are Upholding the Constitution are Still Insurrectionists—and Still Subject to Disqualification Under Section 3 the Fourteenth Amendment

If false beliefs about legality exempt people from Section 3 disqualification, leading Confederates would have been exempt as well.

Reason · Sep 22, 2023

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New Article: Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3

A Response to William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

Reason · Sep 12, 2023

Battle of Richmond reenactment: 161 years later, some participants still differ on cause, legacy of

The annual Battle of Richmond reenactment reveals there are still differences of opinion over the origin and legacy of the Civil War.

WEKU · Aug 30, 2023

Why no living people appear on US postage stamps

With the ascension of King Charles III to the British throne, some commentators have made much of the fact that the new stamp bearing his image features the king without a crown.

The Conversation · Jun 21, 2023

Editorial: Here’s why Gov. DeSantis is wrong. Fort Bragg needed a new name

Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The question should be, why would anyone name a military base after him in the first place? Nevertheless, Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending him.

Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2023

Commentary: Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ fate is a cautionary tale for our nation’s Trump quandary

With barricades surrounding the Manhattan criminal courthouse and plainclothes officers ordered to dress in their full uniforms, it’s only human to ponder the wisdom of trying Donald Trump for a nonviolent offense related to buying a porn star’s silence.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 31, 2023

A US city took down its racist statues. Where do they go next?

Richmond, Virginia, removed likenesses of Confederate generals after 2020’s protests. Now they’re in a statue graveyard

The Guardian - US · Feb 28, 2023

Georgia county refuses to change Confederate street names

States across South have removed monuments to pro-slavery Confederacy

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

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Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2023

Gene Collier: Red state, blue state, some are large, one has Marge

A lot of Americans can steer past Presidents Day without even noticing it, even if they find it suspiciously odd that there is no mail.

The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2023

We get 28 days for Black history in the US – but every month is White History Month

Conservatives are blocking a more inclusive version of history – even as our Capitol contains statues of white supremacists

Tribune News Service · Jan 21, 2023

Editorial: Confederate day honors traitors who fought for slavery. Texas Legislature must dump it

Odds are, Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 18, 2023

Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans

For the third straight legislative session, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, has filed a bill to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.

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Axios · Jan 16, 2023

The states that celebrate both MLK Day and confederate holidays

Two states celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee on the same day.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 8, 2022

US midterms: all eyes are on Georgia's black vote

Voting for the midterm elections gets underway on Tuesday across the United States. In the deep south state of Georgia, with its bitter past of racial segregation, African Americans hope that for the first time ever a black woman will fill the position of governor. RFI met with grassroots groups…

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022

After Cawthorn's loss, candidate challenge ruling reversed

Days after U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his primary race, a federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s decision that blocked an elections board from examining whether he should be disqualified

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022

Appeals court says 1872 amnesty law can’t be applied to pro-Trump insurrectionists

‘Having specifically decided to withhold amnesty from the actual Jefferson Davis, the notion that the 1872 Congress simultaneously deemed any future Davis worthy of categorical advance forgiveness seems quite a stretch’

Salon · May 14, 2022

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

No. 4. All amputations were done without anesthesia.

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2022

Wisconsin GOP leader Vos to meet with election fraud backers

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he is meeting with advocates for decertifying President Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state, hours before he and the state Senate’s top Republican were to discuss the topic with county GOP leaders

The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2022

Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint

Visitors to Alabama's state Capitol often stop next door at “the First White House of the Confederacy," where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived at the start of the Civil War

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