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J. Harvie Wilkinson III — President Donald Trump's foil on mass deportation — leads a sheltered life as a federal appellate ...
Peter Byrne, a law professor at Georgetown University who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. “The public should cherish justices who exercise independent reflection on how the law ...
In a fascinating and elusive 8–1 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the IRS decision ... In a memorable concurrence, Justice Lewis Powell drew attention to the “element of conformity ...
Harry F. Byrd Sr., the architect of Massive Resistance, and a memoir of his own experience as a law clerk under U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., a family friend from Richmond.
In the summer of 1971 Lewis Powell was an eminent corporate lawyer, soon to be nominated and confirmed for the Supreme Court, when he drafted a confidential proposal for the US Chamber of Commerce.
The unifying theory of this movement is to make expansive new use of a 1983 Supreme Court decision, Bob Jones University ... In a memorable concurrence, Justice Lewis Powell drew attention to the ...
San Antonio Independent School District in 1973. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell led the high court to strike down both with his controversial opinion that the drafters of the 14th ...
Breathing is no longer a basic human right in America: it’s now a political battleground. Over 156 million Americans are ...
II. A Republican Party yearning for the glory days of spoiled meat, child labor and exploding Corvairs began anew in 1971 with Virginia corporate lawyer Lewis Powell. His influential memorandum ...
In 1827, the US Supreme Court ruled that the authority to decide ... Insurrection Act the way the law was intended. Tung Yin, a Lewis and Clark Law School professor, said it’s hard to see ...