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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 8/28/2007 02:12:00 PM
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For anyone who remembers hearing from Assistant Attorney General Brand last semester, here's another opportunity to listen to her perspective. She'll be addressing how to communicate conlaw in our 24 hr media cycle. Where? A reasonably priced lunch in Chinatown.
posted by Galen Thorp at 4/13/2007 02:52:00 PM
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posted by Galen Thorp at 4/13/2007 02:44:00 PM
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In a 1985 speech delivered to the American Bar Association, Attorney General Meese sparked a dramatic public debate on the question of constitutional interpretation, urging that the Court be guided by a “Jurisprudence of Original Intention.” Attorney General Meese will again take up the issue, reflecting on the 22 years since his original speech, commenting on the current status of constitutional interpretation, and questioning how the Judiciary can return to the principle of federalism.
posted by Galen Thorp at 4/13/2007 02:30:00 PM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 10/25/2006 10:37:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 10/18/2006 10:12:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 10/16/2006 09:41:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 10/16/2006 09:40:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 10/03/2006 11:00:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 9/14/2006 10:40:00 AM
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On Wednesday, September 13th, at 6pm in Hart Auditorium (located at 1st and F Streets NW in Washington, DC), Georgetown University Law Center will host Serrin Foster, the President of Feminists for Life. Ms. Foster will give a lecture entitled "The Feminist Case AGAINST Abortion."
Her remarks will be followed by commentary by Julia Thornton who during her freshman year of college gave birth under challenging circumstances to a child who was subsequently adopted. Following remarks by both speakers, there will be a question and answer period. The event is co-sponsored by Progressive Alliance for Life, Campus Ministries, Christian Legal Society, Catholic Forum, and Law Republicans. A reception with food and beverages will follow the event.
posted by Galen Thorp at 9/12/2006 08:49:00 PM
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posted by Galen Thorp at 9/05/2006 07:08:00 PM
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posted by Sarah Kohrs at 4/30/2006 10:32:00 PM
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posted by J. Li at 4/04/2006 06:00:00 PM
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posted by J. Li at 3/22/2006 07:49:00 PM
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posted by Galen Thorp at 3/22/2006 07:37:00 PM
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The dominant wing of the GOP tilted in favor of the banks, the great industries, and--perhaps more surprisingly--the feminist movement. Indeed, as early as 1904, the National Association of Manufacturers had formed an alliance with the feminists, for they shared an interest in moving women out of their homes and into the paid labor market. When the feminists reorganized as the National Woman's party in 1917, the manufacturers' association apparently provided secret financial support. More openly, Republican leaders embraced the feminists' proposed Equal Rights Amendment, first advanced in Congress in 1923. The GOP was also the first major party to endorse the ERA in its platform. ...
The Democrats also welcomed the "Maternalists" into their ranks, female activists who--while believing strongly in equal legal and political rights for women--also emphasized the natural differences between the sexes when it came to childbirth and child care. They favored federal programs for the training of girls in home economics and for "baby saving," meaning efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality. They fiercely opposed working mothers and day care. Under this Maternalist influence, every New Deal domestic program openly assumed or quietly reinforced the goal of a "family wage" and the model American family of a breadwinning father, a homemaking mother, and an average of three or four children. In short, from 1912 until 1964, the Democrats were--on balance--the pro-family party. The Republicans, on balance, were the party of business interests and the feminists. ... Regardless of whether one agrees with the author's obvious preference for mothers staying at home, the political analysis is insightful and the presentation of policy tradeoffs and interests honest - the stresses average people face.
For the Republican party as reshaped by Reagan now saw pro-family social conservatives in political alliance with the interests of the banks and the large corporations. Main Street and Wall Street were under the same tent, which was a very new development. ...
Indeed, the GOP has done absolutely nothing to curb the egalitarian frenzy and the gender-role engineering set off by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and enshrined at the Pentagon. Equity feminism still rules these roosts.Or consider child care. A timely veto by Richard Nixon stopped the government's day care juggernaut in 1971, but only for a few months. The same year, Nixon signed a Republican-designed measure also backed by the National Organization for Women (heir to the GOP-favored National Woman's party). This law allowed families to deduct day care costs from their income tax, cleverly labeling them "business expenses." This has since grown into a credit worth between $1,500 and $2,100 in reduced taxes for households using day care. Even the wealthiest qualify. Meanwhile, families that sacrifice a second income to keep a mother or father at home receive nothing except a higher net tax. Bills to correct this gross inequity have been regularly introduced in Congress since 1996, most recently the Parents' Tax Relief Act of 2006 (H.R. 3080). However, the Republican leadership has ignored them. To underscore the lost opportunity here, note that conservatives in Canada rode to victory just a few weeks ago by embracing a plan to extend that nation's day care benefit to stay-at-home parents; not a whiff of this, though, in the recent State of the Union address.
posted by Charles Iragui at 3/20/2006 12:56:00 AM
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posted by Shelby Wolff Reitz at 3/17/2006 08:29:00 AM
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The Georgetown Federalist Society seeks to include conservatives and libertarians in the campus dialogue by hosting debates, panels, and social events. See recent articles in: BaltSun, AP, WaPo, and NYT. We affirm three core principles:
