The 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. Our session is called historians in court. It examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first for organizing this session and, in particular, to the president for her support of our endeavor here today. Today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. Theres no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. Theres a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief in the Supreme Court case in 1908. But for our purposes, our pedigree as historians might be traced back to the brown versus board of education litigation in which the distinguished helped the naacp make the case against School Segregation. More recent
Even in its politics. Pour ejemplo, this was the governor of the great state of maine, paul lepage, speaking last night at an event discussing Substance Abuse at bridgeton, maine. Number one, ive got a bill in to the legislature right now to take the traffickers. Now, the traffickers, these arent people that take drugs. These are guys that are named dmoney, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Which is a real sad thing because now we have another issue that weve got to deal with down the road. Republican governor of the great state of maine, paul lepage speaking last night in comments that were just clipped and circulated widely in maine tonight. The governor saying part of the problem with these dmoney, smoothie, shifty guys from new york and connecticut who come up to maine to sell drugs is that h
Maine, paul lepage, speaking last night at an event discussing Substance Abuse at bridgeton, maine. Number one, ive got a bill in to the legislature right now to take the traffickers. Now, the traffickers, these arent people that take drugs. These are guys that are named dmoney, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Which is a real sad thing because now we have another issue that weve got to deal with down the road. Republican governor of the great state of maine, paul lepage speaking last night in comments that were just clipped and circulated widely in maine tonight. The governor saying part of the problem with these dmoney, smoothie, shifty guys from new york and connecticut who come up to maine to sell drugs is that half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Which the gov
Type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Which is a real sad thing because now we have another issue that weve got to deal with down the road. Republican governor of the great state of maine, paul lepage speaking last night in comments that were just clipped and circulated widely in maine tonight. The governor saying part of the problem with these dmoney, smoothie, shifty guys from new york and connecticut who come up to maine to sell drugs is that half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave. Which the governor thinks is a real sad thing because you know what that leads to down the road. After that led to some nationwide headlines tonight about the governors racially charged remarks, not to mention this headline from the local bangor daily news, lepage do we have that other one . Lepages alleged racist r
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