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10 fascinating presidential pardons, from bootleggers to traitors
A collection of Confederate generals, including Jefferson Davis, composed by the United States between 1861 and 1865, who ...
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The President’s Inbox Recap: The United States and South Africa
President Trump has ended an idealistic cooperation with South Africa that obscured rising foreign policy tensions between ...
The New York Times3mon
How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day
The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.
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Monday is Presidents Day. These are 19 financial perks of being the president of the United States.
Joe Biden was sworn into office on January 20 as the 46th US president. Biden gets to enjoy luxurious benefits that come with the highest office in the United States. Monday, February 15 is ...
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What is Presidents Day and how is it celebrated? What to know about the federal holiday
How has the day grown from a simple celebration of the birthday of the first president of the United States? And why are we seeing all these ads for car and furniture sales on TV? This year ...
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Of Course Presidents Are Officers of the United States
Neither Trump nor his defenders have found a single quotation from the 1860s declaring that the president is not an officer of the United States for purposes of Section 3. Proponents of ...
Reason4y
Is the President an "officer of the United States" for purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment?
Update: In December 2021, Seth and I published an article in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, based on this blog post. You can download our article on SSRN: Is the ...