Neil Banerji
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No Haste, No Hurry: The Dangers of Court-Packing the Federal Judiciary
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When confronted with FDR’s legislative proposal to expand and pack the Supreme Court with more sympathetic, pro-New Deal justices, U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurt, the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, replied “No haste, no hurry, no waste, no worry” and delayed the hearings, marking an essential check by Congress on the Roosevelt White House’s…
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The New Ottoman: Turkish Foreign Policy, Erdoğan’s Libyan Adventure, and the Ideal US Response
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Introduction Known as the sick man of Europe in its dying days, the Ottoman Empire, a Muslim polity that straddled the entirety of the Middle East at its zenith, was long heralded as a bridge between the East and the West dating back to the Seljuk conquest of Constantinople. Although not nearly as powerful or…