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...Human Resources Committee, so the Judiciary Committee chairmanship will fall to Biden. Under Democratic rule, the panel will inevitably give the President a difficult time on judicial appointments. In the past year, even with a Republican majority, the committee helped defeat the district-court nomination of right-wing Ideologue Jefferson Sessions and waged tough fights against the nominations of Daniel Manion to the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court and William Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Moreover, the Judiciary Committee deals with such matters as civil rights, abortion and school prayer. Any new initiative by Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...thousand dollars a word is a hefty price to pay for any document, but this one is special. Written in 1818 by the 75-year-old Thomas Jefferson to Mordecai Noah, one of America's first Zionists, the letter contains a stirring attack on anti-Semitism and all forms of religious bigotry...
Author Seale rates the eminently forgettable Millard Fillmore as having had the best head for design and doing as much as any other President to improve the White House grounds and the beauty of Washington. The mounds on the South Lawn are not Jefferson's after all, says Seale, but the result of dumping excess dirt from excavation for the Treasury Department when Franklin Pierce was President...
Washington's grandees, sensing the approach of civil war, had one last fling in 1859, and it was in the Willard. Among the 1,800 guests: Sam Houston, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, William Seward. They raised glass after sparkling glass of champagne as the night -- and peace -- ebbed. It was claimed that this was the last time North and South met on friendly ground. On the day Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederacy, delegates from 21 of the 34 states gathered quietly in Willard Hall to try to avert disaster. They failed...
...fact is that virtually every genuine constitutional question has unique complexities that do not lend themselves to the slambang simplicity espoused by Reagan and Meese. For as Jefferson noted two centuries ago, the founders "laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme...