Michael Bobelian
Author of Battle for the Marble Palace and Children of Armenia. I write about the Supreme Court, politics, legal affairs, and human rights. Contributor @Forbes
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Michael Bobelian
Can a president pardon himself, as Donald Trump proclaimed he could in 2018? Should he be allowed to pardon his family members, friends or co-conspirators, or even traitors? What about people who haven’t been charged with a crime? In “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy,” Jeffrey Toobin, a CNN legal commentator and contributing writer for the New York Times’s opinion section, revisits Watergate and Gerald Ford’s ensuing pardon of Richard Nixon to delve into these contentious questions.
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Jan 18, 2025 |
washingtonpost.com | Michael Bobelian
Years after it decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court remained committed to integration in the face of widespread protests, administrative chicanery and other forms of resistance deployed throughout the South. Fed up with the region’s intransigence, it unanimously declared, in 1968, that such “delays are no longer tolerable.” The court went a step further in 1971.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
armenianweekly.com | Michael Bobelian
Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyBy Ben AlexanderPublished by I. B.Tauris in 2023264 pagesIt’s surprising how little most Armenian Americans know about their recent past. I realized this shortfall when conducting research for my book nearly 20 years ago. The same unanswered questions popped up time and again. Why are there two Apostolic Armenian churches (plus two more when counting Armenian Protestants and Catholics)?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Michael Bobelian
Culture14 hours agoBook Review: Victoria's Secret's secrets revealed in 'Selling Sexy'phillytrib.com - Terri Schlichenmeyer Tribune Correspondent • 14hPush up, minimize, sports-type. Enhanced backside, padded hips, slimming effect, lift and separate.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | Michael Bobelian
(Knopf)Review by Michael BobelianSeptember 26, 2024 at 6:58 p.m. EDTThe United States Supreme Court is in crisis. Since 2021, the Court’s six conservatives have upended decades of precedents on reproductive, gun and religious rights; neutered regulators; granted presidents nearly monarchical immunity; and adopted newfangled theories that threaten other well-established areas of the law.
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History is more interesting when it ties into current events. That was definitely the case with my latest review for the @washingtonpost . @JeffreyToobin's book tackled the Ford-Nixon pardon and its impact on the modern (ab)use of the pardon power. https://t.co/7S2skc3lQn
RT @SchaffnerPress: Schaffner Press author Michael Bobelian (@mbobelian) reviews "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Bat…
In this review for the @washingtonpost, I explored a little-known yet key #SCOTUS case that undermined educational integration in large metropolitan areas. https://t.co/Jv7chkvSm7