Curated playlist
Harvard Law School alumni
- Barack ObamaObama rejected a plan to bomb a compound in Pakistan and sent Navy SEALs instead. The 2011 raid killed Osama bin Laden.
- Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia won confirmation to the United States Supreme Court on the 17th of September 1986 by a vote of 98-0. Not one senator voted no. Later, Joe Biden, a committee member who became a president, said he regretted not opposing…
- Chuck SchumerBob Dole once joked that the most dangerous place in Washington was between Charles Schumer and a television camera. Schumer, a Democrat from Brooklyn, has been a United States senator from New York since 1999. Along the way he has led his…
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford B. Hayes won the presidency by one electoral vote, 185 to 184.
- Ted CruzTed Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, once held the Senate floor for 21 hours and filled part of that time by reading Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. He has served in the Senate since 2013. A Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz,…
- Alan T. NolanAlan T. Nolan spent his life as both a Civil War historian and an Indiana attorney. He wrote The Iron Brigade in 1961.
- Caspar WeinbergerBudget cutter Caspar Weinberger became "Cap the Ladle" once he ran the Pentagon.
- Alexander Wheelock ThayerHarvard-trained Alexander Wheelock Thayer went to Europe in 1849 to research Beethoven.
- Matthew MullerMatthew Muller was once nominated as one of the American Bar Association's Techiest Lawyers. He held a Harvard law degree, an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps and a reputation for fighting deportations. Then, in 2015, he was…
- Jed S. RakoffJed Rakoff ruled against his own circuit's insider trading rule, and the Supreme Court unanimously agreed in 2016.
- Bridgit MendlerBridgit Mendler is an American entrepreneur, a former actress and a singer-songwriter, and she once explained how she spent the COVID-19 lockdowns. She told CNBC: "While everybody else was making their sourdough starters, we were building…