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CLAY JENKINSON: Future In Context — Supreme Court Packing: A Bad Way To Get Even (Or Ahead)

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Clay Jenkinson 1 Comment

Recent talk among some Democrats about expanding the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices has caused enormous consternation among Republicans but also among many mainstream Democrats and conservative political commentators. The impulse to increase the number of justices is a partisan Democrat response to the refusal by Mitch McConnell and Republican senators to confirm (or even vet) President Obama’s Supreme …

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CLAY JENKINSON: Future In Context — What Happens When A Sitting President Is Stricken?

Posted on October 3, 2020October 4, 2020 by Clay Jenkinson ,Leave a Comment

We all woke up Friday to the news that the president and first lady had tested positive for COVID-19. In a year of wild and enormously disruptive events, things just got crazier. Just what the president’s health crisis will mean for the election, and for a nation fighting its way through several profound challenges, is unclear. It is too early …

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CLAY JENKINSON: The Jefferson Watch — Farewell To Edmund Morris

Posted on June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 by Clay Jenkinson

I want to take a moment to lament the passing of one of the finest scholar-biographers of our time Edmund Morris. The great biographer of Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt died May 24. He was 78 years old. Morris was born in Kenya on May 27, 1940, to South African parents. He moved to Britain in 1964. Without a college …

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CLAY JENKINSON: The Jefferson Watch —The Price of Power

Posted on May 22, 2018May 23, 2018 by Clay Jenkinson

Jefferson famously wrote, “No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.” Think of the diminishment of the presidents even of my own lifetime. Lyndon Johnson had been so consumed by the War in Vietnam that he withdrew from the 1968 presidential race. Johnson loved and lusted for power as much as anyone …

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CLAY JENKINSON: Anger And Hypocrisy

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Clay Jenkinson

I find it interesting that for eight years the anti-Obama legions kept their eyes open at all times for signs that Barack Obama was “an angry black man.” If at any time, he showed the slightest impatience or raised his voice above a certain level, or spoke in something that could be thought to resemble black street English, the conservative …