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Nomaan Merchant, Alanna Durkin Richer And Mark Sherman Protesters for and against President Donald Trump debate each other at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) December 11, 2020 - 9:18 PM WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before...

The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the will of voters in 4 other states has quickly become a conservative litmus test.

Updated December 11, 2020 4:43 p.m. EST By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER , Associated Press HOUSTON — The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, with many Republicans signing onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail. The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election is the latest demonstration of President Donald Trump’s enduring political power ...

© Granger/Shutterstock Ludwig van Beethoven in reflective mood. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up He is one of the world’s most famous composers – and Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany 250 years ago this month. As the creator of such works as the Pastoral and Eroica symphonies, the opera Fidelio, the Moonlight Sonata ...

circulates, he opposes congressional efforts to amend the constitution. and in his draft he says im for the old ship. in his draft he knew the congress was debating this new 13th amendment. they havent they hadnt passed it. he vows to reclaim the federal forces captured rather than simply preserve those that remain in federal hands. and then his draft, its a much firmer ending. his draft ends by saying with you and not with me is the solemn question. shall it be peace or the sword? you...

the conversation, because its being driven by political projects of huge import. im reminded of the film "the birth of a nation." the character, ben cameron, right, ben cameron is a hero of the klansmen. one of the great unknown features of american constitutional history is ben cameron is modelled by a guy named rufus bratton, which is the first case under the 14th amendment to reach the united states supreme court. in early 1872, it gets argued. in a very, very telling moment, the su...

by being such a good general and prolonging the war. im a descendant from slaves. so he -- i mean, it really is comparable to nominating mandela in israel. he cant be man of the year because we still have history. we are not at 2011. i think lees body should be mixed with road tar. >> isnt that a little harsh, jennifer? >> its a little harsh, i think. the assumption is anybody associated with slavery, anyone remotely associated with that and who favors it in any way should be disinterr...

another harry lee and who was there and -- this might be too long a story, but they had a child who fell from some steps and died and his wife became inconsolable and took some consoling in drugs and in the process -- but before that and a jolly party atmosphere there for stratford so the wifes sister came and lived with them. she was an orphan and so she went there and she and light horse harry had a relationship that may not have resulted in a child and she finally went to the court ...

hes wasting that money and it caused a scandal and provoked harry to leave. he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jacksons, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but hell do that, you know. hell go that far and eventually hell go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter...

>> live on american history tv on c-span3. as you may have heard the folks at the museum of the confederacy counting the votes on who will be chosen as person of the year 1862. the audience and viewers here on american history tv heard from five historians today. the most recent you heard from emory thomas who nominated robert e. lee. here are the nominations, stonewall jackson, nominated by robert cribbing who was the chief historian at fredericksburg. david blight for the yale cente...