George Liebmann —- 58°F Thursday, October 16th 2025 Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Commentary ide map Opinion Commentary The dangerous effort to enshrine an imperial presidency | GUEST COMMENTARY Susan Walsh/ Associated Press file The Supreme Court in Washington. (Susan Walsh/AP) By George Liebmann UPDATED: October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM EDT It is considered by many a foregone […]
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 […]
G. Liebmann, “The Supreme Court has Checked an Over-Ambitious President Before,” Baltimore Sun, June 2, 2025
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much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda, aroused the president’s wrath at what he called an outdated “horse-and-buggy” interpretation of […]
OpinionCommentary Eisenhower warned us against embracing censorship | GUEST COMMENTARY Author By George Liebmann PUBLISHED: May 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM EDT The recent action by the superintendent of the Naval Academy, authorizing the removal of several hundred books from that institution’s library, is, like most attempts at censorship, counter-productive in its immediate effects. A […]
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 […]
Essay, Law and Liberty.com March 18, 2025 Shackles on a Free Society George Liebmann The left is outraged over the Trump administration’s withholding of federal funds from Columbia University. But where did that power come from? The action of the Trump administration in suspending several hundred million dollars in aid to Columbia University and in […]
https://digitaledition.baltimoresun.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?pubid=99644e1a-52da-4fe3-8f78-a84e4fe4d386&edid=1e065dc7-33d3-4ae0-b3c1-265a2f96b444 Is the Constitution at threat under Trump? Baltimore Sun, February 24, 2025 By George Liebmann Do President Donald Trump’s actions to date endanger constitutional government? With one exception, not yet. The exception is his pardoning of violent Jan. 6 lawbreakers. Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity […]