CLE17-289
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3.0 HOURS
FEB 22
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The Constitution Under Attack:
The Harding Affair
—War, Love and Espionage
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Professional Conduct
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEB 22 | 8:30AM - 11:45AM
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The Constitution Under
Attack: The Harding Affair–
War, Love and Espionage
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James D. Robenalt, Esq.
Special Book Signing Event Following Program
All attendees will receive a copy of Jim Robenalt’s book, The Harding Affair
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The Constitution Under Attack:
The Harding Affair–War, Love and Espionage
description
In 1917, when the United States entered the war in Europe, President Wilson asked Congress to pass an espionage
bill, given the high level of foreign spies in the United States. The Espionage Act of 1917 was the response, and it
is still on the books today.
Warren Harding, then a Senator from Ohio, was in a relationship with a woman who arguably was a German
spy and who was being watched carefully by military authorities, the Department of Justice and a home-grown
vigilante group known as the American Protective League. Before his mistress could be arrested, Harding
warned her to stop her activities.
While Harding’s mistress and her husband avoided arrest, Socialist Eugene Debs was not so lucky. His political
speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918, resulted in his arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment in the Atlanta
penitentiary.
President Wilson denied requests to pardon Debs and other political speakers. The Supreme Court, per Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ opinion, affirmed Debs’ 10-year sentence. It was left to Warren Harding after being
elected in 1920 to exercise the Power of the Pardon, reserved to the Executive Branch, to commute and release
Debs on Christmas Day, 1921.
Around this time, Congress passed an amendment to the Espionage Act, known informally as the Sedition Act,
making it a crime to speak against the government, recruitment, the Constitution, or the military or naval forces.
The Preamble to Ohio’s Rules of Professional Responsibilities places a high value for lawyers to reach out to their
communities in just this manner. “[A] lawyer should further the public’s understanding of and confidence in the
rule of law and the judicial system because legal institutions in a constitutional democracy depend on popular
participation and support to maintain their authority.”
program agenda
featured speaker
8:00Registration
James D. Robenalt, Esq.
8:30
The Senate Years: The Espionage Act and its Amendment
(value: National Security and the Constitution)
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Justice Souter and the danger of civic ignorance (Harvard
symposium)
German spying in the United States
The decision to go to war
Harding’s affair with a potential German spy
Passage of the Espionage and Sedition Acts
Domestic surveillance
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Arrest of Socialist Eugene Debs for speech in Canton, Ohio
10:00Break
10:15 The Presidential Years: Trial of Eugene Debs and the
Pardon Power (value: Free Speech and the Constitution)
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The trial of Eugene Debs in Cleveland
Debs’ address before sentencing
Debs’ appeal
First cases on Free Speech and the 1st Amendment
Holmes’ opinion
Wilson’s denial of pardon
Harding’s strategic use of the Pardon Power
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Q&A. Lawyers learning to teach civics in their communities
CLE17-289
Code: 0217
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Thompson Hine LLP; Cleveland
Mr. Robenalt is a partner and former chair of the business litigation group at
Thompson Hine LLP’s Cleveland office. Mr. Robenalt has won big verdicts
for clients, including Avery Dennison ($81 million jury verdict on international
espionage case) and Solvay Pharmaceuticals ($68 million arbitration award
on drug co-promotion agreement). He is also the author of three non-fiction
books dealing with the American presidency: Linking Rings, William W. Durbin
and the Magic and Mystery of America (Kent State University Press 2004); The
Harding Affair, Love and Espionage During the Great War (Palgrave 2009);
and January 1973, Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam and the Month that
Changed America Forever (Chicago Review Press 2015). He is a recognized
leader in judicial reform in Ohio.
In addition to his litigation practice, Jim teaches and instructs on the legal
ethics and the representation of an organization under new Model Rules 1.13
and 1.6. Working with John Dean as fact witness and Watergate as a case
study, Mr. Robenalt and Mr. Dean have developed an interactive, fast-paced
program that explores the duties of an attorney representing an organization
when wrongdoing is uncovered. Rule 1.13 defines “organization” broadly,
including corporations, partnerships, unions, governmental entities and the
like.
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how to register
Online: www.ohiobar.org/cle17-289
Phone: (800) 232-7124 | (614) 487-8585
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P.O. Box 16562 Columbus, OH 43216-6562
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