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11 Feb 2024, 6:44 am by karplawfirm
If you want to make your opinion known to Congress, click here to find the contact information for your representatives and here for your senators. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 11:37 am by Josh Blackman
" From my vantage point, she rattled these off from memory without looking down at her notes: "we see it begins with senator, representative, elector of the president and vice president, and all other civil or military officers —offices. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 9:20 am by Josh Blackman
He didn't mention any executive branch authority, including opinions from William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm by Mark Walsh
Anderson, a Republican, was the first female majority leader in the Colorado senate, an achievement that puts her in a class with the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who had the same first in the Arizona state senate. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
In 1862, numerous senators who opposed seating alleged Confederate sympathizer Benjamin Stark invoked the specter of Floyd. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 5:55 am by Tom Joscelyn
” Trump and his lawyers have made that sentence a centerpiece of his defense since the very first legal proceeding arising out of Jan. 6– namely, his impeachment and Senate trial. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 5:50 am by jonathanturley
Chase ruled in a circuit opinion that the clause was not self-executing. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Will Baude
[Note:  This is the ninth in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
Senate impeached President Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” but the Senate acquitted him. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 7:20 am by Will Baude
It would be difficult, in our opinion, to frame a law more thoroughly the offspring of passion, and less in accordance with sound policy and statesmanship. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 4:54 am by Will Baude
(This, we think, is evident from the text, history and structure of Section Three as detailed at length in our original article, including a footnote (59) that cited five typical statements of senators – both proponents and opponents of the substance of Section Three – who all agreed or assumed that Section Three would have immediate consequences, for better or worse.) [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 9:59 am by Scott Bomboy
On this point, the district court committed reversible error,” said the majority’s per curiam opinion. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 5:05 am by Will Baude
Senator Ted Cruz, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and 177 Other Members of Congress makes the same claim in an even more emphatic, and embarrassing fashion, arguing that Section Three must not be self-executing because if it were "there would have been no reason for Congress to state expressly in §2383 that a conviction for insurrection would result in disqualification from holding certain offices. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
To decide an abstract question is to give what has been deemed, since the Washington administration, an impermissible advisory opinion. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 6:29 pm by Marty Lederman
Part II of Donald Trump’s brief argues that the factual predicate for the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump’s name from the primary ballot was absent because Trump did not “engage in” an insurrection against the United States on January 6, 2021.[1]  [Apologies in advance about all the footnotes, but I didn't want to clutter the text with too many peripheral matters.]The Colorado Supreme Court held that Trump’s words on January 6… [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 2:04 pm by Will Baude
  Age, residency, and citizenship restrictions all apply to Senators and Representatives as well. [read post]