The last known descendant of Thomas Cooley has given the document appointing him the first chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission to--Thomas Cooley! (Fox 17).
Thomas M. Cooley (NYPL)
- Brenda Wineapple discusses her book on the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted A Nation, with Claire Potter on her Political Junkie podcast.
- In the September 2024 issue of the Journal of American History, Myisha S. Eatmon “examines Black Americans’ use of tort law and damage suits to pursue and gain recourse for white-on-Black violence on trains during the early days of Jim Crow.”
- John Witte, Jr., reviews (some of) Rafael Domingo's Law and Religion in A Secular Age (Exaudi).
- A recording of that discussion on originalism at the National Constitution Center between Jonathan Gienapp and Stephen Sachs is now on YouTube.
- ICYMI: Mississippi’s oldest law firm will be memorialized with an historical marker (Vicksburg News). Andrew Lanham says The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History (TNR). Rachel Shelden says that A Transformed Supreme Court Requires Different Solutions (Brennan Center).
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