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24 Apr 2024, 5:57 am by Norman L. Eisen
The United States, like many other functioning democracies, is hardly immune from backsliding and lurching toward autocracy. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 12:47 pm
Reversing theDistrict Court’s operative holding, the majority concludedthat for purposes of Section 3, the Presidency is an officeunder the United States and the President is an officer ofthe United States. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 3:33 pm by Marty Lederman
  First, it’s likely that many or all of the Justices will want to preserve states’ authority to prevent rebels and insurrectionists from holding state offices, as New Mexico did in the Couy Griffin case currently pending before the Court. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
During last week’s Supreme Court oral argument in Trump v. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:51 am by Scott Bomboy
Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed skeptical about one argument made by Trump’s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, that Chief Justice Samuel Chase’s circuit court decision in Griffin required Congress to pass enabling legislation to allow states to disqualify insurrectionists. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 3:45 pm by Steven Calabresi
 The Court will likely reverse the Colorado Supreme Court based on Griffin's Case, the absence of congressional legislation enforcing Section 3, and the prudential and pragmatic arguments made in Section 3 of the Brief signed by Attorneys General Edwin Meese III, Michael B. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:35 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
“It’s by the chief justice of the United States a year after the 14th Amendment,” Kavanaugh said in a reference to Chase. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 3:36 pm by Marty Lederman
  Colorado isn’t even trying to prevent Colorado’s presidential electors from casting their electoral votes for Donald Trump if he wins the popular vote in Colorado in November, nor (as I’ve explained earlier) has it asserted any state law authority to exclude Trump from the Colorado general election ballot (something that Colorado law does not appear to authorize). [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 5:05 am by Will Baude
§2383, which covers participation in rebellion or insurrection, and which provides that those found guilty "shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 1:14 pm by Amy Howe
Specifically, it concluded, the presidency is not an “office … under the United States,” and the president is not an “officer of the United States. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 11:11 pm by Josh Blackman
Attorney General Opinions Do Not Support The President Being An "Officer Of The United States" Amicus brief of The Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence I. [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
When appointing Hur to lead the probe, Attorney General Merrick Garland cited the “extraordinary circumstances” of the Justice Department investigating the president as he considered a reelection bid. [read post]