Charles Mills

Charles Mills
The Confederate Lawyer

Charles G. Mills received his bachelor of arts degree in Latin and Greek from Yale in 1962, his law degree from Boston College in 1967, and his Ll.M. from Touro College in 2002. He served in the United States Army from 1962 to 1964. He is the "Judge Advocate" or general counsel to the New York State American Legion. He has published two law review articles and numerous bar association publications articles on the law of veterans' benefits. His Ll.M. required advanced independent study of both the law of veterans' benefits and constitutional law.

He has practiced extensively in all levels of New York and federal courts and won several leading cases that established new New York law. He has served as a member of the National Advisory Board of the Latin Liturgy Association, a member of the board of his local Boys Scouts of America council, and a Chairman of Agents of the Yale Alumni Fund.

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Archives of The Confederate Lawyer:

2013 Archives:

• April 16, 2013 – War

• March 22, 2013 – If Lincoln Had Drones

• March 11, 2013 – "Conservative" Republicans

• February 27, 2013 – Pope Benedict and the Liturgy

• February 19, 2013 – Women Warriors

• January 27, 2013 – Conscientious Objection, Part II

• January 22, 2013 – Conscientious Objection, Part I

2012 Archives:

• December 27, 2012 – The Massacre Was Not at the Rod and Gun Club

• December 5, 2012 – Joe Sobran on Contraception

• September 13, 2012 – Dissident Religious Sisters

• September 7, 2012 – Feeding the People

• August 6, 2012 – Harebrained Ways to Deal With Bullies

• July 20, 2012 – Modern Day Crusaders Needed to Protect Religious Liberties Worldwide

• June 20, 2012 – For Greater Glory: A Movie Review

• June 8, 2012 – Homosexual Hordes

• May 31, 2012 – The Blue Shirts

• April 26, 2012 – Marbury v. Madison

• April 4, 2012 – Windmills and Waterwheels

• March 28, 2012 – Contraception

• March 22, 2012 – Ambition, Accommodation, and Abortion

• February 16, 2012 – The Golden Age of Parochial Education

• February 9, 2012 – The Wagging Finger

• February 7, 2012 – James Madison

• January 13, 2012 – Did the Old South Change its Mind?

2011 Archives:

• December 29, 2011 – Islam and Idealism

• November 30, 2011 – Rewriting Southern History
Part II: Reconstruction

• November 28, 2011 – Rewriting Southern History
Part I: The Causes of the War Between the States

• November 18, 2011 – Classical Education

• October 18, 2011 – Fixing Broken Churches

• October 7, 2011 – Educating Texans

• Septembert 23, 2011 – Labor Goons: Part II

• Septembert 14, 2011 – World War I
Part II: The Consequences

• Septembert 12, 2011 – World War I
Part I: The Beginning

• Septembert 8, 2011 – Detective Stories

• August 19, 2011 – Progressives, Populists, and the Black South

• August 17, 2011 – Texans, Californians, and Mountain Men

• July 07, 2011 – The Golden Age of American Diplomacy

• June 29, 2011 – The “Dark Ages” That Never Were

• June 23, 2011 – Labor Goons

• June 16, 2011 – A Soldier’s Faith

• May 19, 2011 – Cancer and Idolatry in the Supreme Court

• April 15, 2011 – Democracy or Religious Liberty?

• April 13, 2011 – The Shameful Legacy of the 20th Century: the Destruction of the Family

• March 14, 2011 – Virginians, New Englanders and Indians  Part II: War

• March 9, 2011 – Virginians, New Englanders and Indians  Part I: Westward Expansion

• March 4, 2011 – The Economics of Education

• February 10, 2011 – What the Declaration of Independence Really Means

• February 9, 2011 – Forbidden Pleasures

• February 3, 2011 – The Roots of American Religious Liberty Part II:  The Restoration and Succeeding Decades

• February 2, 2011 – The Roots of American Religious Liberty Part I:  The Early Period

• January 5, 2011 – Sissies and Killers

2010 Archives:

• December 29, 2010 – The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Can of Worms

• December 22, 2010 – The 1874 Electoral Landslide

• December 7, 2010 – An Immodest Proposal

• November 30, 2010 – Federal Aid to Schools Is Unconstitutional

• November 16, 2010 – Financing Education

• September 20, 2010 – Joe Sobran and Hamlet

• September 20, 2010 – James Jackson Kilpatrick, RIP

• August 26, 2010 – A Federal Judge Ignores Truth
Part II: He Rewrites History

• August 24, 2010 – A Federal Judge Ignores Truth
Part I: He Takes Sex Out of Marriage

• August 18, 2010 – The Fourteenth Amendment and The Flag

• August 12, 2010 – The Big Tent Is a Big Lie

• August 5, 2010 – Eisenhower and Faubus

• July 29, 2010 – The Conquered Banner

• July 28, 2010 – A Venture in Triviality

• July 22, 2010 – The Cold War, Part VII: Reagan, Bush, and Victory

• July 20, 2010 – The Cold War, Part VI: Carter’s Dark Night before Dawn

• July 15, 2010 – British Petroleum, the Tar Baby, and the Briar Patch

• July 8, 2010 – The Cold War Part V: Nixon Stabs Free China in the Back

• July 7, 2010 – The Cold War Part IV: Johnson Brings the Cold War Home

• June 30, 2010 – The Cold War Part III: Kennedy’s Twilight Zone

• June 30, 2010 – The Cold War Part II: The Lost Opportunities of Eisenhower

• June 24, 2010 – The Cold War Part I: Truman and a Bad Start

• May 20, 2010 – Lincoln’s Hypocritical Address

• May 18, 2010 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Age of Evil

• May 12, 2010 – Virginia’s Confederate History

• May 6, 2010 – Terminating Human Abortion Instrumentalities (satire)

• April 21, 2010 – The Supreme Court, the Common Law, and the Natural Law: Part II

• April 20, 2010 – The Supreme Court, the Common Law, and the Natural Law: Part I

• April 15, 2010 – A Rebirth of Liberty, or a Neocon on a White Horse?

• March 25, 2010 – Destroying the Traditions of the Senate

• March 17, 2010 – Book Fails to Vindicate Accused Spy John Stewart Service

• March 12, 2010 – Restoring Nobility to the Name “Conservative”

• February 16, 2010 – Trent Lott Was Right

• January 25, 2010 – Was America Born in a Revolution or a War for Independence?

• January 7, 2010 – We Were Young Once -- and Conservative

2009 Archives:

• December 8, 2009 – Obama Avoids Free China on Asian Tour

• November 25, 2009 – Preston Brooks’ Cane

• November 5, 2009 – Pay Czar Policies Have Unintended — and Far-Reaching — Consequences

• October 29, 2009 – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Photo IDs

• October 22, 2009 – Environmental Extremists Reverse Natural Order

• October 1, 2009 – Only Fear of God Can Guarantee Liberty

• September 10, 2009 – Keeping Alive the Memory of American Public Religion

• August 26, 2009 – Robert Novak, Rest in Peace

• August 24, 2009 – Keeping Alive the Memory of American Freedom

• August 20, 2009 – Was Galileo Guilty?

• August 13, 2009 – Three Heroic Popes — Part II

• August 12, 2009 – Three Heroic Popes — Part I

• July 14, 2009 – Three Great Chaplains

• June 29, 2009 – The Lies They Tell

• June 24, 2009 – The Blessed Pius IX and President Jefferson Davis: Kindred Spirits

• June 18, 2009 – Sacrifice

• June 3, 2009 – Notre Dame’s Honorary Degrees

• April 23, 2009 – Ban Contraceptives from Interstate Commerce

• March 24, 2009 – On Liberty

• February 24, 2009 – Reviving Liberty Will Take Courage

• February 10, 2009 – Our Wounded Warriors Deserve Better

• January 15, 2009 – Save the Electoral College

 

2008 Archives:

• December 11, 2008 – Destroying the People’s Money

• November 11, 2008 – A Cure Worse than the Disease

• October 21, 2008 – Can Taxes Ever Be Fair?

• September 9, 2008 – Reconstruction Sowed Seeds of Corruption and Exploitation

• August 19, 2008 – The Seamless Transition

• July 31, 2008 – Joseph R. McCarthy: Time for Truth

• June 12, 2008 – Will California Rule the United States?

• May 20, 2008 – Marriage and Polygamy

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