Andrew Johnson and the New Orleans Riot
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Kurt Lash has been guest blogging his new book on the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment. Kurt has brought forward a host of new materials and...
View ArticleMore on Kurt Lash’s Theory of the Privileges or Immunities Clause and the New...
Recently, I blogged about Kurt Lash’s own blogging about his new book on the 14th Amendment. I wrote: Kurt argues that the Privileges or Immunities Clause merely incorporates the Bill of Rights; it...
View ArticleThe Constitutional Propriety of Impeaching the President
Imagine America had as its president a man manifestly unfit by character and temperament to hold such an important public trust and exercise the important constitutional powers of the office. The...
View ArticleObjections to Impeachment, Part II: The Specter of the “No Confidence” Vote
Yesterday, I laid out the four principal types of objections to a broad understanding of the constitutional power of impeachment. Yesterday’s post focused on the supposed danger of abuse. Today, I...
View ArticleObjections to Impeachment, Part 3: Overturning the Result of An Election
Of all the objections to giving the power of impeachment its full proper constitutional scope, perhaps the most common — and probably the most specious — is that impeachment should not be allowed to...
View ArticleObjections to Impeachment: The Protest that “This Hasn’t Been Our Practice,”...
In my last several posts, I have been responding to standard objections often raised in opposition to a broad understanding of the constitutional power of impeachment – objections that one often...
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