Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution permits the U.S. House of Representatives of investigate and bring articles of impeachment against the President of the United States. Impeachment of the president can be brought for “Treason, Bribery,…
Category: Constitutional Law
2019
Category: Constitutional Law
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh knows a thing or two about impeachment.
After graduating from Yale College as a “cum laude” undergraduate in 1987 and from Yale Laws School in 1990, Justice Kavanaugh began his legal career as…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
Every criminal defense attorney has had a client whose crime repulsed the attorney.
Every criminal suspect is entitled under both our state and federal constitutions to have the assistance of counsel and to have an attorney appointed to them…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
President Donald J. Trump has polarized the American judiciary along racial and political lines. He believes the Attorney General of the United States should serve as the president’s personal attorney and that the Federal Judiciary should rubber-stamp the policies of…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | SCOTUS
Most people share the common misunderstanding that under our constitution a person cannot twice be put in jeopardy for the same offense. This legal concept is known as “double jeopardy.” The Double Jeopardy Clause is located in the Fifth…
2019
That Michael Kwan, a justice court judge in Taylorsville, Utah, has a history of violating the Utah Code of Judicial Conduct is not subject of debate. During his two decade tenure on the bench, he has faced numerous ethics complaints…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
Congress’s authority to conduct oversight, and its corollary power to investigate, the executive branch of government (and all of its agencies) are not explicitly stated in Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. But from the very first…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
The current President of these United States of America, Donald John Trump, has imposed upon all law-abiding Americans during his first two years and four months in office a reign of lawlessness, abuse of executive powers, official corruption, and pathological…
2019
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) has convoluted history with blood and privacy.
In a 1991 opinion, State v. Comeaux, the CCA dealt with a situation where a defendant involved in a traffic accident was taken to a…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
In a 1976 Valparaiso Law Review article, “Historical Developments of the Interrelationship of Unanimous Verdicts and Reasonable Doubt,” Anthony A. Morano noted that in pre-colonial America, English law “required that jurors be kept together incommunicado during deliberations, without food, drink,…