If anyone is curious about the Turf Protection Law, the text is here (first item): https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/44th-congress/session-1/c44s1ch86.pdf It was passed in 1876 during the end of the Grant administration.
2018 - March
22 comics.
Crisis Actor
on March 27, 2018
Linda Brown, the young girl at the center of the Brown V. Board of Education decision and later civil rights leader, died on Sunday. For an era where civil rights were finally taking center stage, President Eisenhower was notably slow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
150 years ago today, the court came back in session to hear the articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson as well as his responses to each one. Most of the articles deal with various ways that he was in violation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Very Nice Things
on March 21, 2018
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Trump’s national security advisors wrote “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in big letters on his briefing papers about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s re-election “win.” So of course the next thing Trump did was to call him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hayes Cabinet
on March 20, 2018
Rutherford B. Hayes was a deeply religious man and would sing gospel hymns with his family every night. Clearly out of danger of any major consequential disasters, the administration, cabinet, and even Vice President William Wheeler would often join in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
