Who wrote the 17th Amendment? The Writer of the 17th Amendment: The 17th Amendment passed Congress in 1912 and was ratified in 1913. The amendment represented a shift in how Senators were elected. Instead of being elected by state legislatures, they were instead elected directly by voters. ...
Whether challenged via habeas or directly before the IJ/BIA, on a basic level, detention must occur within the parameters of the executive branch’s delegated authority to detain. INA section 236(a) authorizes “detention pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed” (emphasis add...
WASHINGTON – Seven Republican senators alongside all Democrats found former President Donald Trump guilty on Saturday for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol, though the bipartisan vote wasn't enough to reach the two-thirds majority required to convict. ...
Louis Browns, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, and the Chicago White Sox. Ruel was one of the top defensive catchers of his era, and is notable for scoring the winning run for the Washington Senators in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series and, for ...
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he served as the first President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Slaveowner. Died, probably from acute bacterial epiglottitis, at Fairfax County, Va., ...
It is now commonplace for congressmen and senators first elected decades ago — as I was — to comment in private that the whole process has become unbelievably crass, degrading and horribly destructive to the core values of American democracy. Largely as a result, the concerns of the ...
The upcoming trial, which comes about a year after Mr. Trump's first impeachment trial is slated to begin the week of February 8. Democrats will need all 50 of their senators and 17 Republican senators to cross the aisle to convict Mr. Trump. ...
Murphy’s speech came after a video played of Harris’ touting the Senate border negotiations and panning Trump for pushing GOP senators to tank it. “Everything that you just saw — that’s exactly what happened,” Murphy said. “Donald Trump’s allies weren’t just in the room t...
The Democratic senators who backed it were Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), John Fetterman (Pa.), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Elissa...
Democrats are not risking the possibility that Trump might manage to talk his way out of his troubles with swing-state women. Ahead of the town hall yesterday, Georgia’s two Democratic senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, held a prebuttal conference call with reporters and the family...