Month: February 2020

“Why We Will Remember Judge Nathaniel Jones”

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Nathaniel Raphael Jones (May 12, 1926 – January 26, 2020) served as a lawyer, jurist, academic, and public servant and was an attorney in private practice. He was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before his retirement in March 2002.[1] As general counsel of the NAACP, he gained recognition for his legal efforts to end school segregation in the northern United States.[1]
Jones was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 28, 1979, to a seat vacated by John Weld Peck. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 4, 1979, and received commission on October 5, 1979. Assumed senior status on May 13, 1995. Jones retired from the bench on March 30, 2002.

“When Barack Obama Made History”

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Wikipedia :

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people”.[1] The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation[2] and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.[3][4]

The Nobel Committee’s decision drew mixed reactions from US commentators and editorial writers across the political spectrum, as well as from the rest of the world.

Obama accepted the prize in Oslo on December 10, 2009. In a 36-minute speech, he discussed the tensions between war and peace and the idea of a “just war“[5] saying, “perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.”[6]

Obama is the fourth President of the United States to have won the Nobel Peace Prize (after Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter, with Carter’s honor happening after leaving office).