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The Second Trump Senate Trial: Think Belknap Not Blount

JonathanTurley

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. William Blount (1798-99). … 7.

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North Carolina Board Asserts Right to Disqualify Madison Cawthorn as an “Insurrectionist”

JonathanTurley

The North Carolina elections board declared this week that it has the power to bar Rep. In doing so, as indicated above, States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges. However, it has not been treated legally as an insurrection. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

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“Everybody’s Mistakes Except My Own”: Trump Final Pardon List Offers A Telling Reflection On His Legacy

JonathanTurley

Robert Cannon “Robin” Hayes who served as Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and Chair of the National Council of Republican Party Chairs. While I have long maintained that the Constitution does not bar self-pardons, I also view it is as an abuse use of that power. He also added former rep. For example, the D.C.