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Max Novak

Article III U.S. Constitution - 16 views

Questions: 30. What provision is made for the judicial branch of the government? There are federal courts; the Supreme court, inferior courts. 31. What is the provision for the tenure of o...

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Kay Bradley

Case Closed: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident | HistoryNet - 0 views

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  • The 122 additional relevant SIGINT products confirmed that the Phu Bai station had misinterpreted or mistranslated many of the early August 3 SIGINT intercepts. With that false foundation in their minds, the on-scene naval analysts saw the evidence around them as confirmation of the attack they had been warned about. Those early mistakes led U.S. destroyers to open fire on spurious radar contacts, misinterpret their own propeller noises as incoming torpedoes, and ultimately report an attack that never occurred.
Kay Bradley

The 13 Worst Recessions, Depressions, and Panics In American History - 24/7 Wall St. - 0 views

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    "Most of the early US recessions - those in the late 1700s and early in the 19th Century - were based on speculation in land or commodities such as cotton. Oddly enough, the latest recession also came about as a result of unchecked land speculation. In this case, however, that land was residential real estate - already under homes and not valuable for crops or mining."
Kay Bradley

Simplified "Focused Research" | Diigo - 0 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 04 Nov 22
     
    Vega v. Tekoh case, just ruled, weakens the Miranda Ruling of 1966 (Ernesto Miranda)
Kay Bradley

Digital History: 1930s The Human Toll - 0 views

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Great Depression depression economics history

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  • images of the Great Depression remain firmly etched in the American psyche: breadlines, soup kitchens, tin-can shanties and tar-paper shacks known as "Hoovervilles," penniless men and women selling apples on street corners, and gray battalions of Arkies and Okies packed into Model A Fords heading to California.
  • 12 1/2 million in 1932.
  • a quarter of the nation's families did not have a single employed wage earner.
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  • in 1932, three-quarters of all workers were on part-time schedules, averaging just 60 percent of the normal work week.
  • average family income had tumbled 40 percent,
  • In Oakland, California, whole families lived in sewer pipes.
  • Vagrancy
  • many families did without milk or meat.
  • Herbert Hoover declared, "Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes are better fed than they have ever been." But in New York City in 1931, there were 20 known cases of starvation; in 1934, there were 110 deaths caused by hunger.
  • heavy psychological toll on jobless men
  • Large numbers of men lost self-respect
  • many women saw their status rise
  • drew some families closer together
Michael Carson

Article II #25-29 - 18 views

25. Each state was allocated a number of electors which was the sum of the number of senators(2) and the number of representatives in the House. The states could determine how they were elected. A ...

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Kay Bradley

FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Article III - 0 views

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  • shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
  • The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury
  • Kay Bradley on 17 Nov 10
     
    Judicial Branch
Alex Sommer

New Deal Findings: First New Deal Programs (1933-1936) - 2 views

-Summarized with the 3R's of FDR's program: relief, recovery, reform -FDR led the Democratic party and voiced liberal, pro-union policies -Republicans mostly opposed legislation passed during the N...

started by Kay Bradley on 24 Mar 11 1 follow-up, last by Alex Sommer on 29 Mar 11
Kay Bradley

American Anti-miscegenation - 0 views

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racism laws cases race

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    History of state anti-miscegenation laws
Kay Bradley

In Aftermath of Missouri Protests, Skepticism About the Prospects for Change - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • any end up being passed from jail to jail around the county until they can pay their fines and in some cases other administrative fees, a revenue source on which some towns are growing increasingly reliant
  • He described how an unpaid $75 ticket once turned into days behind bars in two different police stations and hundreds of dollars in fees. He
  • Maplewood, according to a 2013 report by the state attorney general, black motorists were searched or arrested during stops at more than twice the rate of whites. Yet searches of whites and blacks were almost equally likely to turn up contraband. Messages for the police chief in Maplewood were not returned.
Kay Bradley

What Is Obstruction of Justice? An Often Murky Crime, Explained - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn,
  • he was thinking about the F.B.I.’s investigation into contacts between his campaign associates and Russia, which he has derided as fake news, when he did so.
  • After a report that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey whether he was loyal to him, the president
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  • better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations.”
  • “The president has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn.”
  • Several federal statutes criminalize actions that impede official investigations.
  • the law also includes broad, catchall prohibitions. For example, Sections 1503, 1505 and 1512 of Title 18 have variants of language making it a crime if someone corruptly “obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”
  • Could that cover asking the F.B.I. director to drop part of an investigation, and later firing him?
  • In theory, yes.
  • the power relationship
  • Did Trump have lawful authority to fire Comey?
  • But courts have ruled that otherwise lawful acts can constitute obstruction of justice if done with corrupt
  • example
  • intentions
  • ad filed legal complaints and related motions against a government agent who was investigating an illegal gambling operation
  • What would such a case entail, in theory?
  • prove defendants’ mental state
  • chieving that obstruction has to have been the specific intention.
  • Samuel Buell,
  • But he said on Tuesday that subsequent revelations have made the evidence much more robust.
  • “The evidence of improper purpose has gotten much stronger since the day of Comey’s firing,”
  • What impediments would there be to charging Mr. Trump?
  • it was not realistic to expect the Trump administration’s Justice Department to charge the sitting president.
  • to appoint a special counsel to handle it.
  • What about impeachment?
  • Bill Clinton in 1998 and Richard M. Nixon in 1974 — were accused of obstruction of justice.
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