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Presidential Pardons
Jan 27 2021
The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. From George Washington’s pardon of participants in the Whiskey Rebellion to Gerald Ford’s
The Imperial Presidency and the Irrelevant Congress
Feb 11 2020
In the wake of the U.S. drone attack on Qassim Suleimani and the subsequent Congressional action to restrict further presidential military action against Iran, Andrew L. Johns, whose presidential address at the annual conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association expl
Working for SNAP
Dec 05 2019
by Maggie Dickinson, author of Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety NetThe Trump
Administration just approved a new rule that will cut an estimated 700,000 unemployed
and under-employed people from the SNAP (formerly food stamp) rolls. The rule
will make it harde