White House Discussion of the Possibility of Losing in the Supreme Court (1935)

…days ahead, the President and advisers, including Robert Jackson, continued to consider privately their legal options in the event that the Supreme Court decided the Gold Clause Cases against the President and Congress. That did not come to pass. On February 18, 1935, the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, decided these cases in the government’s favor. August 1935: Robert H. Jackson testifying before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (International new…

Ben Ferencz Is 103+

…is 1947 opening statement at Nuremberg in the Einsatzgruppen case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67B-MoKG_o; a November 2005 interview of Ben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8m5YHt__4; a Ben TED talk from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwa4zRWDsvI; the trailer of the 2018 documentary, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDbZemxuK4; and Ben’s website, a treasure house of his storie…