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In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. I have a legal education.” ” Under Section 948.60(2)(a)
One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.
“Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of ConstitutionalLaw.
.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.
The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. He then used the mailing to have the sisters re-arrested for a federal misdemeanor for the interstate mailing.
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. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.
A letter signed by 144 constitutionallaw scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.
According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean?
He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.
With the Trump trial, Manhattan has become a type of legal wilderness where prosecutors use the legal system to hunt down political rivals and thrill their own supporters. Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. It all comes down to the legal map.
Previously, I wrote about Hastings in addressing the bribery theories being voiced by Democratic leaders and legal experts in the first Trump impeachment. This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. This is only a question of the jurisdiction of the Senate.
This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. It does not change my view of the meaning of high crimes or misdemeanors. At a time of lost confidence in the integrity of the government, the conduct of a former official can demand a political response.
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On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.
There are cases which, even if legally brought, contain errors so significant they must be dismissed as unsound on prudential rather than constitutional grounds. The expectation was that the vote of high crimes and misdemeanors would not be a simply conclusory vote but supported in some form to meet the constitutional standard.
There are also a host of checks and balances on executive authority in our constitutional system. This includes judicial intervention to prevent violations of the law as well as impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him the move was unconstitutional.
The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” Weiss cut a deal with Hunter’s legal team that was widely derided. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), What followed has bordered on the burlesque.
Whitmer did violate the Constitution, as have other public officials in other states. However, this was a legal dispute on the scope of her discretion that was resolved by the state courts. It does not use “high crime or misdemeanors.”
Wild chose the commencement address to launch into a personal attack that accused me of being an example of the use of law for “wrongful ends.” ” She falsely accused me of changing a critical legal point in my testimony in the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings on whether impeachable conduct must be indictable crimes.
However, this constitutional looting would endanger not jut the Constitution but the country as a whole if Biden were to heed this advice. These calls come in the midst of a counter-constitutional movement led by law professors. You’re not done. You’ve still got 100 days left in office! You don’t answer to anyone.
Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.
The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is a constitutional process, not just some trash-talking cable show (although, admittedly, it was hard to tell at moments in the hearing). That is how an impeachment inquiry should begin. Because we do not know.
While legal eagles will be analyzing every move, what citizens really need is an Philadelphia Eagles fan to understand what is unfolding. Swalwell’s comments not only include disturbing legal claims , but highly personal and offensive remarks like mocking threats against Susan Collins, R-Maine. In the NFL, it is called “tanking.”
Even law professors have succumbed to this low-grade form of debate. Figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe now regularly engage in profane and personal attacks when they disagree on political or legal issues. There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution.
But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. A chilling return Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era. Legal analysts and commentators openly celebrated on MSNBC and CNN — joining many in the streets.
” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. There is nothing in these messages that put Ginni Thomas in legal peril. Nevertheless, media and legal experts are clamoring for impeachment. Kamala Harris and Sen.
There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.
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