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much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda, aroused the president’s wrath at what he called an outdated “horse-and-buggy” interpretation of […]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 […]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT THE AGE OF BIDEN by George Liebmann Published January 20, 2025 Amazon.com Paperback $25.00; Kindle $9.99 This is a collection of more than a hundred op-ed pieces and letters on public affairs written during the Biden administration, 2020-2024. It is followed by an appreciation of Jefferson’s contribution to the American polity, unacknowledged in […]
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 […]
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. […]
OpinionCommentary JFK’s legacy deserves a critical eye | GUEST COMMENTARY Author By George Liebmann PUBLISHED:Baltimore Sun August 19, 2024 at 6:03 a.m. “The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” President John F. Kennedy famously declared in his 1961 inaugural address. He was right to say his inauguration marked a sea change […]
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 […]
Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border Kamala Harris Continues to Fail at the Border It is worth remembering that America’s uncontrolled immigration previously gave rise to the KKK. by GEORGE LIEBMANN American Spectator Online,October 24, 2023, 11:25 PM By now it is notorious that President Joe Biden’s choice as vice president and possible […]