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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 Emeritus" of the New York State American Legion, after serving seventeen years as its "Judge Advocate" or general counsel. When needed he advises the Judge Advocate and Assistant Judge Advocate of the New York 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 lectured on veterans law and the law of polygamy.

As a New York lawyer, he has practiced extensively in all levels of New York and federal courts for fifty years, 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. He is a member of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation Board of Directors.


Archives of The Confederate Lawyer:

2022 Archives:

• September 17, 2022 A New Defense of Reason

2020 Archives:

• April 8, 2020 The Coronavirus, the Constitution, and Natural Law

• March 30, 2020 The End of Internationalism

• March 13, 2020 The Schumer Threat

• January 20, 2020 Leaving Iraq

2019 Archives:

• September 19, 2019 Wars of Regime Change

• August 16, 2019 The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms

• July 4, 2019 Happy Birthday, America!

• June 19, 2019 Will Hungary Save the West?

• May 3, 2019 President Jefferson Davis: Mistreatment continues of a war hero and devoted public servant

• April 19, 2019 Notre Dame de Paris

• February 28, 2019 Medicare for No One

2018 Archives:

• December 25, 2018 “Bah, Humbug” dishonors our Redemption by Christ

• December 7, 2018 Public Hanging vs. Lynching: The Defamation of Senator Hyde-Smith

• November 16, 2018 Lynch Mobs in the Senate

• September 24, 2018 High Court Pick Will Impact Religious Liberty

• April 13, 2018 Not J. Edgar Hoover's FBI

• March 8, 2018 The Trump Tariffs

• March 2, 2018 Russia is Not the Soviet Union

• February 09, 2018 What on Earth Is the United States Doing in Darkest Africa?

2016 Archives:

• December 02, 2016 What Should America Do with Hillary Clinton?

• May 12, 2016 Making and Destroying Money

• March 30, 2016 Unsophisticated Poor Clare Nun Founded International Network on Faith: Mother Angelica, R.I.P.


2015 Archives:

• December 30, 2015 – Good Winners and Bad Winners

• September 3, 2015 – Mountains and Altars

• July 30, 2015 – Envy Caused Murders in Charleston

• July 17, 2015 – Supreme Court Marriage Ruling Could Have Dire Consequences

• May 26, 2015 – Ireland’s Plebiscite Negates its Constitution’s Preamble

• March 26, 2015 – Our Daily Bread

• February 6, 2015 – Liberals Declare Economic War on Alaska

• January 29, 2015 – The Secret Service

• January 23, 2015 – Unintended Consequences


2014 Archives:

• December 11, 2014 – The Grand Jury

• November 7, 2014 – Remaining in the Truth of Christ: A Book Review

• October 2, 2014 – Lynch Mobs

• July 25, 2014 – From Calvinism to Islam

• July 10, 2014 – Iraq: What To Do Now

• June 27, 2014 – Father Kenneth Walker, FSSP, RIP

• June 19, 2014 – Hubris, Hamartia, and Nemesis in the Shinseki Tragedy

• May 30, 2014 – Fixing the Department of Veterans Affairs

• May 20, 2014 – The Department of Delay, Deceit, and Dumb Disorder

• May 16, 2014 – The Gods of the Copybook Headings Return

• April 2, 2014 – Hate Speech and the Internet

• February 27, 2014 – A Foreign Policy in Shambles

• February 8, 2014 – Colonialism's Demise Has Brought Barbarism
and Persecution Worldwide

• January 30, 2014 – Lech Walesa

• January 7, 2014 – Christians and Degenerates also available in Russian

2013 Archives:

• December 12, 2013 – The Little Sisters of the Poor

• October 25, 2013 – National Review Repudiates Its Heritage

• October 16, 2013 – The End of Ink

• October 8, 2013 – Two Generals and Two Books

• September 30, 2013 – War and Peace

• September 23, 2013 – Our Lady's Victory

• August 23, 2013 – Summer Sundays

• August 16, 2013 – Americanism, Yale, Catholics, and Protestants

• July 8, 2013 – Syria

• July 2, 2013 – The Origins of Solidarity in America

• June 27, 2013 – The Bauhaus Dollhouse

• June 20, 2013 – Government Spying

• June 4, 2013 – Rivalries

• May 29, 2013 – Inside the Boy Scouts

• May 22, 2013 – Two Wars, Two Books

• 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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Charles G. Mills Esq., is the Judge Advocate for the New York State American Legion. He has forty years of experience in many trial and appellate courts and has published articles on the law.

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