This post is coauthored by Nathan Dorn, rare book curator, and Robert Brammer, senior legal information specialist. You are sure to hear “Objection!” shouted in the context of any legal drama. But what are they objecting to, and more importantly, on what basis? In modern jurisprudence, the rules of evidence are paramount to trying a case. Deciding whether evidence is …
Describe your background. I grew up in northeastern Maryland in the suburbs of Baltimore and Wilmington, Delaware. Currently, I live on Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota where my husband, Bo, is stationed. We have two sons, Noah and Ezra, two dogs, and two guinea pigs, seemingly on our way to a mini-farm! What …
This year my March 4 was a rather uneventful day. That may have been the case for most of you, but this wasn’t always so for American government. Until the ratification of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States in 1933, each congress began on March 4 of the year following the …