imagine that Congress passes a statute that says (for example): “the president may not order the FBI director to stop an investigation of the president or any other executive branch official.” If Dershowitz is right, this statute would violate the Constitution and be struck down by a court...
The notion of impeaching a sitting United States President is envisioned in the very first iteration of the United States Constitution in Article II, Section 4doi:10.2139/SSRN.3699020Ediberto RomanMelissa GonzalezDianet TorresSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Regardless of the statutory crime, however, charges of obstruction of justice have been a staple of the last two substantial attempts to impeach a president. The first of three articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee against President Nixon accused him of obstructi...
Moreover, the Chief Justice does not appear to have a say in the matter. The power to try an impeached President is vested in the Senate and not the Supreme Court. The Senate makes its own rules about how it interprets the Constitution with regard to impeachment powers. But I’m not ...
Impeachment or Revision of the Constitution? misdemeanor if the president were found to have interfered with the rule of law through perjury, subornation of perjury, and the obstruction of justice. ... Arato,Andrew - 《Constellations An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory》 被引...
Her party swept elections in 2015, but she couldn't become president because of a provision added by the military to the 2008 constitution designed to bar her from the country’s highest office. Instead, she became de facto national leader with the title of state counsellor, a position cr...
PURPOSE: To provide an obstruction evading controller capable of surely controlling a travelling object such as an automatic running vehicle, etc., for a still obstruction such as a wall or passage with various kinds of size and shape and being distributed irregularly. ;CONSTITUTION: This controller...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai found himself the subject of a contempt notice filed by the Mumbai High Court. This was over YouTube’s non-compliance with a previous order by the court to take down a video alleged to be defamatory. The fact that users outside of India could access the video ...
Thus, in connection with the obstruction of justice, he establishes in the first place the exact meaning of the concept of "Justice", as reflected in the Constitution of Romania, criticizing the inadequate use of this term by journalists, politicians and lawyers, insisting afterwards on some ...
This Article analyzes the United States Supreme Court's numerous and shifting rhetorical discourse paths for declaring whether particular governmental practices constituted unreasonable searches or seizures under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It examines how the, Court has ...