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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]
3 Feb 2024, 11:27 am by Christopher J. Walker
Perhaps most notably, the Appointments Clause makes it more difficult for the president to remove principal officers—even those whose views are out of the step with the president’s—because the president cannot know whether the Senate will consent to a preferred replacement. [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 9:52 am by Marty Lederman
 Trump concedes, as he must (Br. at 24-25), that the President is an “officer” for purposes of the Constitution.[1]  After all, the Constitution refers to the President’s “office” or to the “Office of the President” almost two dozen times.[2]  He insists, however, that the qualifying phrase “of the United States” in Section 3 serves to exclude the President, as well as the Vice-President, Senators and House… [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 1:14 pm by Amy Howe
The bar on service can only be overcome by a two-thirds vote of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am by Dean Falvy
Senator Lot Morrill responded, “Let me call the Senator’s attention to the words ‘or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 7:10 am by Marty Lederman
 Assume, for example, that the Court were to issue an opinion declaring that Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection and that the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies him from being President again or from holding any other state or federal office. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 5:49 am by Senator Ron Wyden
Senator, a state senator, and a state judge who had complained to the FBI about alleged human rights violations committed by a municipal police chief. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:50 am by Stewart Baker
The Senate homeland security committee recently held a hearing about that idea. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm by Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
In its 1984 opinion in Chevron v. [read post]