FDR appointed Hugo Black because he was a "thumping, evangelical New Dealer." Why can't Trump want a "thumping, evangelical MAGA warrior"? The current outrage is that President Trump might seek to ...

A reprint of 2 special issues of the Alabama law review, v. 36, no. 3 (spring 1985) and v. 38, no. 2 (winter 1987), with new introduction and minor revisions. I. The Alabama years, 1886-1937. Justice ...

That Alabama’s Senator Hugo La Fayette Black was no stranger to the Ku Klux Klan was no secret in political Washington when the President nominated him to the Supreme Court. No one who had not been in ...

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