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21 Feb 2023, 6:41 am by Andy Wright
Given those objectives, it makes sense that the protections should extend to a Vice President when acting as President of the Senate or in other legislative branch capacity. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 6:06 am by Albert W. Alschuler
This article offers other reasons for preferring a prosecution for insurrection to one for seditious conspiracy. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 7:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If they'd tried those other strategies and failed, voters would probably support jail expansion. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 10:59 am by Laura Orr
Here's an article that may answer the question, in full or in part:A lot is riding on February session: Senate president says it will be prelude to annual sessions ballot measure, by Peter Wong, Statesman Journal, January 17, 2010:Excerpt: 'Oregon lawmakers gave a test drive to an annual session two years ago, but Senate President Peter Courtney said the February session will be the one on which voters decide whether such sessions are permanent. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 5:14 am by alysondrake
In 2000, Hillary was elected one of the two Senators from New York, where she remained until 2008 when she ran for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
  The man backed a credibly accused child molester—Roy Moore—to be a US Senator from Alabama. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
For a while it seemed the only Senators with the guts to play their appointed role of foil rather than servant to the president were Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, but they have now been joined with others who have finally figured out that history will judge them by their own actions, and that Congress is a check on the president, not his personal tool for self-aggrandizement. [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:05 am by Brian Finucane
In the President’s transmittal package for the treaty submitted to the Senate with the request for advice and consent, the Clinton administration explained the substance of the agreement as well as the executive branch’s views and interpretation. [read post]
10 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The country would never have learned about her report and its proximity to her firing except that she testified this week before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.Trump kept Flynn for 18 days knowing full well that Flynn was a national security liability, but then let him go on the flimsy explanation that Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence. [read post]
24 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
They each have their own Article in the Constitution and their specifically assigned powers, but each is also designed to limit the other’s powers. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 8:03 am by Michael Stern
It concluded that he could, but it stressed that the authority of a former president to invoke the privilege was much more limited than that of an incumbent and was further “subject to erosion over time after an administration leaves office. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
There is no guarantee it survives this crisis unless enough good senators step up.Trump’s Bid for No Limits Would Have Been No Surprise to the FramersTo be sure, the Framers would not have been surprised that a President would argue he cannot be held accountable for abusing power. [read post]
23 May 2018, 11:01 am by Ilya Somin
The original meaning of the Constitution imposes many severe constraints on current democratic processes, including tight limits on the scope of federal power, an unwieldy system of separation of powers, a significantly unrepresentative Senate and a variety of individual rights enforceable by strong judicial review wielded by unelected, life-tenured judges. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 11:00 am by aallwash
By Elizabeth Holland After a two-hour contentious vote, the Senate agreed yesterday to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, without any conditions, until March 2015. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 5:54 am by Jed Handelsman Shugerman
Like Roberts, many lawyers and judges rely heavily on this story to explain why the Constitution shields presidents from congressional limitations on their power. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 5:50 am by Brian Finucane
In the absence of a declaration of war or other statutory authorization, the president is subject to multi-tiered obligations to report on certain triggering activities of U.S. armed forces within 48 hours to Congress. [read post]