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When Tom enlisted, as a thirty-three year old, in 1916 he can have had no idea what awaited him. In this diaries, day by day, we follow his story from the time he leaves Holsworthy Camp by train for Melbourne until he returns, a married man, in 1920.We meet his many relatives he had left behind as a five year-old, to grow up in New South Wales. After arriving in England in 1917, and a month in camp on the Salisbury Plains, he goes back to Liverpool where he had been born and, on the first night he meets his cousin¿s sister-in-law, Gertie Knowles.She writes to him, and he replies, while he is back in camp and in Flanders and the romance unfolds. As Gert is one of twelve, we meet many of her ...
An original ebook from the current US senator to Utah, explaining why Chief Justice Roberts was wrong to disregard the Constitution in making his historic and controversial healthcare decision. During Chief Justice Roberts’s first seven terms on the Supreme Court of the United States, he distinguished himself as a fair-minded jurist and a true constitutional scholar—a man seemingly committed to the rule of law and to core constitutional principles. That hard-earned distinction was turned on its head when, on June 28, 2012, the Chief Justice—writing for a five-to-four majority in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebilius—essentially re-wrote key provisions of Obamacare...
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In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Crawford v. Washington that testimonial hearsay is inadmissible at trial unless the declarant is available for cross-examination. Courts have subsequently struggled to define “testimonial hearsay,” but have often vaguely defined it as an out-of-court statement made for the primary purpose of establishing past events for use in future prosecution. Although Crawford intended to protect a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confrontation, in doing so, it overlooked the holding’s detrimental effects on two particular types of victims: domestic violence and rape victims. Under Crawford, domestic violence and rape victims’ out-of-court statements ...