The American Spectator, July 19, 2025 The Return of J. Rufus Wallingford by George Liebmann J. Rufus Wallingford, a financial speculator in a 1911 novel by George Randolph Chester of whom it was said “he toils not, neither does he spin” is an exemplar who in every generation has followers in real life. Bernard Baruch, […]
OpinionCommentary Baltimore Sun Nationwide injunctions should have been nullified long ago | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann PUBLISHED: July 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM EDT The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria from partisans. Critics […]
The Supreme Court has Checked an Overambitious President Before by George Liebmann Baltimore Sun, June 2, 2025 May 27 this year marked the 90th anniversary of the three Supreme Court opinions that invalidated much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda, aroused the president’s wrath at what he called an outdated “horse-and-buggy” interpretation of […]
REMARKS BY GEORGE W LIEBMANN, PRESIDENT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR, AT A MEMORIAL EVENT IN HONOR OF JUDGES JOSEPH H.H. KAPLAN AND JAMES F. SCHNEIDER, APRIL 3, 2024 The Bar Library, since I became its President for the second time in 2006 has had a series of memorial events in honor […]
Comment to Section 2.04 I believe that section 2.04 should be stricken in its entirety. It invites the raising of defenses based on race or alienage, and subjects all provisions of the draft to challenge on the basis of “disparate impact”, a concept rejected by the Supreme Court in all contexts involving anti-discrimination legislation save […]
Baltimore SunOpinionCommentary Senate has a duty to scrutinize Cabinet nominees | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann PUBLISHED: December 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM EST What should the Senate do with President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations? Certainly, it should not follow the advice of Senator Josh Hawley, who said Trump is “entitled to his Cabinet.” Nor […]
Arthuriana 5 An American Dynastic History Review: The Tafts, by George Liebmann Arthur Bloom Sep 04, 2024 William Howard Taft | Biography, Accomplishments, Presidency, & Facts | Britannica There are a few reasons why I need to review this book, the main one is I told the author I would figure something out for it. […]
The New York Sun When Presidents Could Be Quietly Effective Biographies like Smith’s and Liebmann’s yearn for presidents such as Taft and Ford, who spent more time on the substance rather than the presentation of public policy. CARL ROLLYSON Wednesday, June 7, 2023 05:30:00 am ‘The Tafts’ By George W. Liebmann Twelve Tables Press, 432 […]
George Liebmann To: The Democrats and Labor by George Liebmann It is time to consider the non-existent Labor Agenda of the anti_Trump Party. Doing so will convince the impartial that while the Republicans are vexed and encumbered by one man, the Democrats have almost entirely succumbed to an ideological epidemic When there was widespread unemployment […]
The American Conservative Justice Kagan’s Apostasy The judiciary abdicates its duty when it tolerates broad-ranging executive “emergency powers.” George Liebmann Aug 2, 2023 12:01 AM Supreme Court–watchers who try to see beyond the moment have frequently perceived Justice Elena Kagan as a future chief justice. She comes from a family of civil servants and is […]