- In Slate: Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) and Mary Ziegler (UC Davis), "Our Victorian Supreme Court: What it really means for the court to look to Comstock, instead of the people, to legislate abortion."
- My Georgetown Law colleagues Brad Snyder and David Vladeck have filed a FOIA suit against the National Archives over access to the FBI’s records on Angelo Herndon (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). DRE
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Zoe Adams (Massachusetts General Hospital), "The Nixon-era roots of today’s opioid crisis"; Jane Marcellus, "The Tennessee expulsions recall the state’s fight over women’s suffrage"; David A. Love (Rutgers University), "Removing Black lawmakers from office has a long, sordid history"; and more.
- Gregory Ablavsky and Tanner Allread discuss their recent article "We the (Native) People? How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution," on SLS Blog.
- We're ready with some primo material for exam-grading-season procrastination: Hearst Metrotone Newsreels, from 1929 through 1967. Hugh Johnson denouncing the San Francisco General Strike of 1934! H/t: DW/JHS.
- Gated, but very interesting: Delineating Agriculture and Industry: Reexamining the Exclusion of Agricultural Workers from the New Deal, by Katherine Rader, Christopher Newport University, in Studies in American Political Development.
- K-Sue Park, Georgetown Law, will present Homesteading and the American Dream in the Helsinki Legal History series at the University of Helsinki and also via Zoom on April 25.
- Manisha Sinha, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, delivered "The Abolitionist Roots of the Reconstruction Constitution," as the biannual Ubbelohde Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last Thursday (The Daily).
- "Radcliffe Fellow Omer Aziz, a lawyer and the former foreign policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, discussed fascism in America at a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies presentation Wednesday” (Harvard Crimson).
- The revelations concerning Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have generated interest in the resignation of Abe Fortas from the Court in 1969. John P. MacKenzie, The Supreme Court justice who resigned in disgrace over his finances, in WaPo. Business Insider India quotes Laura Kalman's Abe Fortas: A Biography.
- ICYMI: Cay Risen on the fuzzy border between journalism and history (AHA Perspectives on History). The legal history of national security charges, from espionage to sedition to whistleblowers (GBH).
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