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When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
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John Fabian Witt
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The Nation
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June 27, 2023
In Jon Meacham’s Biography, Lincoln Is a Guiding Light For Our Times
The famous historian makes the claim that the demigods of American historical mythology can help us carve paths through our forbidding 21st-century wilderness.
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John Fabian Witt
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Washington Post
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October 24, 2022
The Justice Who Wanted the Supreme Court to Get Out of the Way
Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.
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John Fabian Witt
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The New Republic
on
August 26, 2022
Oh, the Humanity
Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.
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John Fabian Witt
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Just Security
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September 8, 2021
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For 100 Years, the Filibuster Has Been Used to Deny Black Rights
The most significant impact of the Senate’s super majority rules.
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John Fabian Witt
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Magdalene Zier
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Made by History
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March 18, 2021
How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court
The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.
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John Fabian Witt
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The New Republic
on
April 7, 2020
The Achievements, and Compromises, of Two Reconstruction-era Amendments
While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.
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John Fabian Witt
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Washington Post
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October 31, 2019
A National Debate Over Politics, Principles and Impeachment — in 1868
Was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson a matter of national principles? Or an affair of pragmatic politics?
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John Fabian Witt
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Washington Post
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May 24, 2019
