I subscribed to The Dish when Andrew Sullivan first took it behind a paywall. I like to pay for content I actually read (or that actually creates news). As a founding member, I felt like I was invested into his journalism and what he created. What I liked was that he had a differing point of …
Month: May 2018
In my last week as a law student, I studied hard for finals. I wanted to get my GPA to a B average after a very hard first year. However, I had to go to my student loan exit interview. With almost every student I knew, we funneled into the auditorium and received an envelope. …
Although Justice Douglas wrote that “racism as a constitutional principle was emphatically rejected” in Yick Wo, he noted that on May 15, 1893, the Supreme Court provided a dark day for resident aliens. However, in discussing the case, Justice Douglas focused on Justice David J. Brewer, a conservative justice, who became a champion of individual rights.
Although America has always been a land of immigrants, the people who currently live in its borders love to try to keep others out. In the nineteenth century, many people who had low or no income came to the United States. To limit their entry, New York, placed a head tax on every ship that …
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote on May 11, 1935, “I hereby establish an agency within the Government to be known as the Rural Electrification Administration…to initiate, formulate, administer, and supervise a program of approved projects with respect to the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy in rural areas.” In 1935, only 10% of America’s …
On May 10, 1998, the Supreme Court set aside the conviction of Yick Wo. San Francisco had passed an ordinance that required laundry operators to obtain licenses. The city argued they needed to ensure that wooden buildings were not used as laundries. However, 200 invididuals were denied permits, all of Chinese descent, and 80 individuals …