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22 Jan 2021, 11:13 am by Philip Zelikow
Supreme Court only because President Andrew Johnson pardoned Davis before the case could be heard. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 5:00 am by Keith E. Whittington
I began studying impeachments while working on my dissertation and was drawn to the impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:18 pm by Keith E. Whittington
It seems likely that if and when President Trump is put on trial in the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors, his lawyers will argue that the president was exercising his First Amendment right to free speech in the weeks after the election—and, as a consequence, his words cannot form the basis of an impeachable offense. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am by Gerard Magliocca
This rejection was made against the backdrop of Congress’s bitter fight with President Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction, which supports the argument that Congress intended to make Section 3 an exception to the president’s pardon power. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 7:31 am by Karen Beck
Organized by the four affected presidents – Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, William Clinton, and Donald Trump – this library explains the process of impeachment and contains more than 140,000 pages of material. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 6:22 am
/The 45th commander in chief is set to become only the fourth to skip the ceremonies" (The Independent).ADDED: The last President to avoid his successor's inauguration was Andrew Johnson. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 2:30 am by Jack Sharman
He compares and contrasts the Clinton affair with Watergate, Iran–Contra, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, exploring the subtle relationship between public and private morality. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 2:35 pm by Ilya Somin
  Finally, Blackman and Tillman again cite the precedent of some senators raising the First Amendment as a defense for President Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial in 1868. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 9:22 am by Keith E. Whittington
I have a great deal of respect for former Judge Michael Luttig, and so one should think twice when one finds oneself in disagreement with him. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 11:35 am by Josh Blackman
After Lincoln's assassination in 1865, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:34 am by Marcia Coyle
The issue was certified to the full Supreme Court but the court never reached the merits because President Andrew Johnson issued a full pardon to all participants in the Civil War, including Davis. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 1:27 pm by Scott Bomboy
However, if the trial does proceed, standing rules first adopted for President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial in 1868 (and updated several times since then) will be used to conduct the trial. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 8:26 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In the case of Andrew Johnson, presidential rhetoric formed the basis of one of the articles of impeachment approved by the House of Representatives. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 6:45 am by Guest Blogger
Consider for example that the Reconstruction Congress never sought to apply this provision to President Andrew Johnson;  instead they impeached him, though he squeaked by in the Senate vote for removal. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:59 pm by Quinta Jurecic
It marked Trump as one of only three presidents who have been impeached, a spiritual heir of sorts of Andrew Johnson. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:31 pm by Scott Bomboy
Presidential Self-Pardons The theoretical question about the presidential self-pardon goes back to the Nixon and Clinton presidencies (but not the Andrew Johnson era), and there are competing theories about its constitutionality. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:21 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
And let's not forget that we have seen public officials impeachment for speech that would be protected today, and one of the articles of impeachment brought against Andrew Johnson concerned his irresponsible rhetorical excesses. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Joshua Burd
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that the new requirements will not risk the privacy of study participants because “no private information will be released as a result of” the rule. [read post]