Matt Baker
@mebakerlaw.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor @EmoryPoliSci,@polsUGA PhD, @UFLaw JD, & @UCF Alum. Husband & Dad. Former PD. Trial courts, criminal law. Views my own
Thoroughly enjoyed attending the @emorycollege.bsky.social honors ceremony with my @emorypolisci.bsky.social colleagues last night!
May 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed attending the @emorycollege.bsky.social honors ceremony with my @emorypolisci.bsky.social colleagues last night!
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From our new issue: "Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings" by Christina Boyd, Paul Collins, and Lori Ringhand. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From our new issue: "Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings" by Christina Boyd, Paul Collins, and Lori Ringhand. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Teaching freshmen about Zenger's Trial (among other things) and Andrew Hamilton's closing argument feels rather timely... constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
Argument in the Zenger Trial (1735)
National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for Argument in the Zenger Trial (1735)
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January 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Teaching freshmen about Zenger's Trial (among other things) and Andrew Hamilton's closing argument feels rather timely... constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
Reposted by Matt Baker
In today’s “One First,” I wrote about #SCOTUS’s 1866 decision in Ex parte Milligan—and the limits on martial law and military rule for which it still stands. (It’s also a good excuse to talk about the first “class photo” of the justices—from February 1867):
www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...
111. Ex parte Milligan and the Limits of Martial Law
Although it was later narrowed, the Supreme Court's 1866 repudiation of Civil War-era military commissions remains a bulwark against military authority wherever civilian courts are functioning
www.stevevladeck.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:20 PM
In today’s “One First,” I wrote about #SCOTUS’s 1866 decision in Ex parte Milligan—and the limits on martial law and military rule for which it still stands. (It’s also a good excuse to talk about the first “class photo” of the justices—from February 1867):
www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/111-ex-par...