Burt Neuborne
By Burt Neuborne
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Opinion Forget Impeachment. Congress Should Choose A Joint Resolution Of Censure Instead
The revelation that Donald Trump withheld American foreign aid to force the president of the Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden has finally broken the impeachment logjam. We now appear to be moving towards impeachment in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives charging the President with “high crimes and misdemeanors” for grossly abusing the…
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Opinion Trump Is Trying To Divide Us Jews. He’s Endangering Israel In The Process.
This week, President Trump said that Jews who vote for the Democratic Party were “very disloyal to Israel.” “If you vote for a Democrat, you’re being disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel,” Trump said on the White House lawn. President Trump’s chutzpah in instructing American Jews on how to vote…
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Opinion Take It From A Civil Liberties Professor – Trump And Hitler Have A Lot In Common
I hate to put Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in the same sentence. It trivializes Hitler’s obscene crimes to compare them with Trump’s often pathetic foibles. And it understates our nation’s historic commitment to constitutional democracy to suggest a serious parallel between the twenty first century United States and 1930’s Weimar Germany. But I can’t…
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Culture How Belief Has Shaped America’s Laws
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW By Sarah Barringer Gordon Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 316 pages, $29.95 Legal scholars usually tell us that law, especially constitutional law, shapes religion: nurturing its growth under the Free Exercise clause, while inhibiting its power under the Establishment clause. Sally Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law…
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