Government Law

The saga of the last of the old-style vigilante committees and the first of the new-style vigilante committees - a blend that shows the transition....

It's December 1999 and many are wracked with fear over the turning over of another new year. The year not only stands out because it is the end of a millennium and comes replete with some fancy new front digits in the form of "2000", but also has decades of baggage and propaganda that had filtered through to the public over the years. And at least one of the most infamous of doomsday scenarios that circled around the year 2000 was based on some fact.

What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.

Una radiografía indispensable para entender lo que ha traído la llamada 4T.

Rechtsanwalt Alexander Christ klagt an. Und liefert das vernichtende Urteil gleich mit: Alles, was Recht ist―wissen wir nicht mehr. Die Gesetze, die im Zuge der Corona-Maßnahmen erlassen wurden und unser aller Leben einschneidend veränderten, sind nicht nur schlecht gemacht, sondern auch Instrumente zur unverhältnismäßigen Einschränkung unser aller Freiheiten. Das Rechtsempfinden hat sich der Staatsräson gebeugt. Der Rechtsstaat sich aufgegeben. Die Justiz vollständig versagt.

Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism—the nation's first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited authority to draft changes to our fundamental law, potentially altering anything from voting and free speech rights to regulatory and foreign policy powers. Such a watershed moment would present great danger, and for some, great power. In this important book, Feingold and Prindiville examine the grave risks inherent in this effort.