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Forum: Introduction

DOJ) by President Ulysses S. Grant. When Congress established DOJ, it created “an executive department of the government of the United States

Forum: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Government: A Response to Goodwin Liu

for successful litigation in more auspicious times. Similarly, over the years various individuals, from Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Jackson, Jr., have

Forum: The Past, Present, and Future of Section 1115: Learning from History to Improve the Medicaid-Waiver Regime Today

Many have likely gained coverage as a result. However, like Ulysses, those seeking more waivers more consistent with section 1115’s purpose should

Forum: The Dignity of the South

the day; Ulysses S. Grant and the Republicans won, leading to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.) One of the great scenes in Blight’s book is an

Forum: Supreme Court Reform and American Democracy

of epic poetry. But perhaps not. After all, even Ulysses needed to be tied to the mast. The difficulties for the mortal judge are, as we have noted

Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation

Sec’y of State, to President Ulysses S. Grant (May 1, 1876), in Message… Id. at 49. The 1873 laws also declared that marriage “is a contract between

Political Entrenchment and Public Law

Jon Elster, Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints 88-174 (2000); Stephen Holmes, Passions and Constraint 134-77 (1995