photograph by Joe McDonald   

February 2006


Today in 1868, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson for his lenient policies toward the South after the Civil War.

Read more about Andrew Johnson at Wikipedia.

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Justice says those who believe in a more flexible document are ‘idiots’

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn’t change with society are “idiots,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia defended his long-held belief in sticking to the plain text of the Constitution “as it was originally written and intended.”

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