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12 Feb 2024, 7:39 pm by Mark Graber
  No one in the 39th Congress considered doubtful whether the President was an officer of the United States or an officer under the United States. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:41 am by David Oscar Markus
Jackson pointed out, correctly, that the amendment lists specific positions (like senator) from which insurrectionists are disqualified and does not mention the president. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:16 am
Shriver was defeated by former state senator Sheila Kuehl.Kamala Harris famously went on to become Vice President of the United States, but you may need a prompt to remember Sheila Kuehl. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:07 am by Kevin LaCroix
In the following guest post, Dan Aronowitz, President of Encore [formerly Euclid] Fiduciary, examines the new lawsuit and assesses what it may represent. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:00 am by Daniel J. Gilman
I would also highlight a critical letter to President Joe Biden from, among others, former secretaries of the U.S. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
She seemed to actually care about the text of Section 3, which says the following:No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an… [read post]
10 Feb 2024, 11:12 pm by Josh Blackman
Anderson, counsel for the voters was forced to abandon the claim that the Speaker and the Senate President Pro Tempore were "officers of the United States" whose appointments were not provided for in Article II, Section 2. [read post]
10 Feb 2024, 11:11 am by Andrew Weissmann
The Hur report states: “In addition to this shortage of evidence, there are other innocent explanations for the documents that we cannot refute. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 11:37 am by Josh Blackman
That is, the President is not an "Officer of the United States" and not an "Office under the United States. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 9:20 am by Josh Blackman
And the Impeachment Clause lists separately the President and Vice President from the "Officers of the United States. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 5:16 am by Beatrice Yahia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the Middle East yesterday with public divisions between the United States and Israel at perhaps their worst level since the start of the war in Gaza. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:03 am by Will Baude
  In the course of considering certain "Special Situations" (p. 29), we consider who all might have authority to enforce Section Three with respect to the constitutional ineligibility of an individual for the office of President of the United States. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 3:45 pm by Steven Calabresi
"  That would mean that the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is unconstitutional because it allows either the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to serve simultaneously as a Member of either House and to hold the Presidency in the absence of both a President and a Vice President, which Presidency is wrongly said to be an "Office under the United States". [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 2:41 pm by Mark Walsh
Kagan puts it bluntly, or as she says, “Maybe put most baldly, I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 12:14 pm by Amy Howe
It provides (as relevant here) that no one “shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State,” if that person had previously sworn, “as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States” to support the Constitution but then “engaged in insurrection or… [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:44 am by Marty Lederman
  For the President and the Vice President of the United States are the only elected officials who represent all the voters in the Nation. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
In 1868, the Senate refused to seat Philip Francis Thomas of Maryland, who served as treasury secretary under President Buchanan.[26] Championing the refusal, Senator Jacob Howard argued that when "principal public functionaries" including Thomas and Floyd had resigned from Buchanan's cabinet, they had been perfectly aware of the cabal "endeavoring to … beleaguer the city of Washington with the design of seizing… [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
Critics have noted that the proponents of this theory argue that the Speaker and Senate President Pro Tempore are “Officers of the United States. [read post]