Scott is joined by Kelley Vlahos, executive editor at The American Conservative, to talk about the release, at long last, of Chelsea Manning, who was being held in federal jail for refusing to testify in the Julian Assange case. After a year in jail and a suicide...
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News Roundup 3/13/20
US News A judge orders Chelsea Manning to be released from jail. Manning has been imprisoned for over a year for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury. [Link]WikiLeaks says the grand jury in the Assange case has been disbanded. [Link]The House passes a bill...
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Which Hamilton Are You Talking About?
We often hear people referred to as “Hamiltonians.” But that term always makes me wonder, which Hamilton do you mean? I recently had the opportunity to speak to a class at the West Virginia University School of Law. The subject was the constitutionality of federal...
News Roundup 3/6/20
US News The Supreme Court issued a temporary stay of execution for Nathaniel Woods. Woods was scheduled to be executed even though the state admits he did not kill anyone. The order was given minutes before he was scheduled to be executed. The stay was then rejected...
We’re All Intelligentsia Now
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the Kingdom of Prussia was soundly defeated in multiple territorial battles with Napoleon’s French Empire. Under Napoleon, France’s revolutionary army had integrated new logistical methods into their military strategies. In...
Judges Soliciting Business? 10-04-91
The Fed Slashes Rates as Powell Declares Economy ‘Strong’
The Federal Reserve moved to an enact an emergency interest rate cut after officials saw the coronavirus having a material impact on the economic outlook, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday.Powell held a news conference following the central bank’s decision to cut...
2/21/20 Marjorie Cohn on Julian Assange’s Extradition
Marjorie Cohn discusses the attempted extradition of Julian Assange from Britain to the United States so that he can stand trial for alleged violations of America's Espionage Act. Cohn outlines the two main grounds on which she believes the British judge should refuse...
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