SCOTUS Decisions & Politics

About This TextComposed: Talmudic Israel, c.150 – c.250 CE Targum Pseudo-Jonathan is a western targum (translation) of the Torah (Pentateuch) from the land of Israel (as opposed to the eastern Babylonian Targum Onkelos). Its correct title was originally Targum Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Targum), which is how it was known in medieval times. But because of a printer's mistake it was later labeled Targum...

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PPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF PORTO RICO. No. 145. Submitted January 24, 1913. Decided February 24, 1913.The government of Porto Rico cannot be sued without its consent. The government of Porto Rico, as established by the Organic Act, with some possible exceptions, comes within the general rule exempting a government sovereign in its attributes. That government of Porto Rico, as established by t...

The complaint in the Connecticut case regarding Ballot Stuffing. https://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail/PublicCaseDetail.aspx? DocketNo=FBTCV236127336S ball

Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 149 (1967) Holding that plaintiffs subject to a regulation had standing to challenge it even though the Attorney General had yet to "authorize criminal and seizure actions for violations of the statute"

Dartmouth College v. Woodward Recognizing Corporate Personhood

On December 10, 1832 , President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law.

Lincoln's First Inaugural was written in Springfield in January of 1861. According to his law partner, William Herndon, Lincoln used 4 sources for his speech: Henry Clay's Great Speech delivered in 1850, President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation Against Nullification, Senator Daniel Webster's Reply to Senator Robert Hayne, and the Constitution. Lincoln had the first draft set in print and allowed Da...

The American Civil Rights Union ("ACRU") challenges the Philadelphia City Commissioners' failure to purge the city's voter rolls of registered voters who are currently incarcerated due to a felony conviction. Because state law prohibits felons from voting while they are in prison, the ACRU argues that the National Voter Registration Act requires the Commissioners to remove them from the voter roll...

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Dunlop v. Bachowski , 421 U.S. 560 (1975), is a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 gives federal courts jurisdiction to review decisions of the United States Department of Labor to proceed (or not) with prosecutions under the Act. In this case, there was a disputed election within the United Steelwo...

Moses v. Kennedy 219 F. Supp. 762 (D.D.C. 1963) Holding that a private citizen does not have a constitutional right to have his claim investigated and prosecuted by the FBI

Adams v. Richardson 480 F.2d 1159 (D.C. Cir. 1973) This education desegregation lawsuit against the federal government was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1970 by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) on behalf of plaintiffs from across the country. Plaintiffs were black college students, citizens, and taxpayers from ten states that had been identified by the U.S. Dep...

Heckler v. Chaney , 470 U.S. 821 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court decision that held agency decisions to not undertake enforcement proceedings is "committed to agency discretion by law" ( 5 U.S.C. § 701(a)(2) ) and therefore not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act . From Wikipedia

Powell v. Katzenbach Holding that writ of mandamus against Attorney General would not lie because the question of whether to institute prosecution is discretionary

Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Holding that agency can be compelled to act if time period is specified by law. Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance , 542 U.S. 55 (2004), was a Supreme Court case that held that although the Administrative Procedure Act says that a person may challenge an agency's failure to act, this provision essentially just carries forward the writ of mandamu...

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu is a political satire written by French attorney Maurice Joly in protest against the regime of Napoleon III (a.k.a. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte), who ruled France from 1848 to 1870. It was translated into English in 2002. Small portions were translated in 1967 as an appendix to Norman Cohn's Warrant for Genocide , which identifies it as the mai...

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu is a political satire written by French attorney Maurice Joly in protest against the regime of Napoleon III (a.k.a. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte), who ruled France from 1848 to 1870. It was translated into English in 2002. Small portions were translated in 1967 as an appendix to Norman Cohn 's Warrant for Genocide , which identifies it as the ma...

The Cross of Gold William Jennings Bryan July 9, 189IntroductionAt the Democratic National Convention in 1896, proponents of “free silver” (the re-legalization of silver as part of the nation’s monetary standards) appeared to possess the two-thirds majority needed to nominate a candidate. Unfortunately, they did not have a candidate. There was no doubt the platform would endorse the unlimited coin...

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu Chapters 12 through 14 Wherein Machiavelli and Montesquieu carry on regarding the manipulation and coercion of the press to act in certain ways, the coordination of secret societies and finally concern themselves with the "court of cassation" A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassat...

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu Chapters 9 through 11 These chapters concern the methods by which a ruler would influence legislation through the senate and the manipulation of the press through indirect methods, such as administrative oversight and bonding measures. Also much consideration on how a Coup d'Etat would take place and how it would affect public sentiment. Ver...