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Ambition and Aspiration: Living Greatly in the Law
Lee H. Rosenthal is chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, based in Houston. She is a national figure in the judiciary, having served as chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, to which Chief Justice John Roberts appointed her, and chair of the…
The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Origins of Birthright Citizenship
T he debate over who is an American and what rights come along with citizenship is as old as the republic and as recent as today’s newspapers. Rarely, however, does the discussion achieve any kind of historical understanding. Such understanding requires familiarity with the era of Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War, when the United…