Reversing Time\u27s Arrow: Law\u27s Reordering of Chronology, Causality, and History

But this Article urges us to use the President’s unintended comments as a prompt for reconsidering how we ordinarily talk about and conceive time and causality ―especially in thinking about law. Through a series of brief case studies culled from politics, culture, and law, this piece begins mapping the frequency, range, and significance of circumstances in which we can claim that the hands of the present grasp and transform the past...Among other benefits, greater awareness of this underappreciated aspect of American legalism can assist scholars and citizens in shedding new light on enduring and important debates involving such areas as constitutional interpretation and judicial confirmation hearings

JPL Ephemeris Tapes E9510, E9511, and E9512

The first issue of JPL Ephemeris Tapes is described. These tapes carry the positions and velocities of the planets and of the Moon, plus nutations and nutation rates in longitude and obliquity, together with second and fourth modified differences, for the interval December 30, 1949, to January 5, 2000