It requires us to convict the President of Article II of these Articles of Impeachment.
All the material allegations of Article II seem to me to be well founded.
And both Article I and Article II are constitutionally deficient for other reasons as well.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Article II charges that President Clinton committed one or more of 7 possible acts of obstruction.
Indeed, in a sense, that is the message sent by the House when it defeated Article II.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Our obligation is to leave Article II, Section 4 the way we found it on November 9th.
And during my presentation, I'll be focusing on the evidence that demonstrates obstruction of justice under Article II.
Unhappily for the managers, however, the House rejected Article II, and it not before you in any form.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Now, you might wonder, well, why are we going to Article II before we've covered Article I on perjury?
If that's true, then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution.
And the answer is that in a chronological flow Article II, the obstruction facts precede much of the perjury allegations.
First politically: The wording of the Presidential Oath was established in the Constitution in Article II, Section 1, Clause 10.
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The National Popular Vote bill is a thinly veiled effort to void Article II of the Constitution and its elector system.
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Equally important is the fact that these instances of perjury are also elements of the obstruction of justice charges in Article II.
The House's vote on Article II foreclosed that option for all time.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
This is not a perjury challenge, this is a subject to be dealt with in the context of Article II and in obstruction of justice.
The first leg on which it rests was removed by the House itself when it voted to defeat Article II, alleging perjury in the civil deposition.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
And by relying on one specific constitutional provision--Article II, section 1, clause 2--it could end that process without doing too much violence to the rest of the Constitution.
You will notice that the third and the fourth subject areas correspond to, coincide and overlap with many of the allegations of obstruction of justice in Article II.
It seems to me that he's moved from the world of perjury, which is my Article I, into the world of obstruction, which is Cheryl's and David's Article II.
In Article II, they accuse the president of obstructing justice by suggesting that Ms. Lewinsky should file an affidavit, knowing full well that the affidavit would have to be false.
While removal upon conviction has not always been considered inevitable, I agree that Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution requires a mandatory sentence of removal upon conviction of high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
"Congress by statute has confirmed and supplemented the president's recognized authority under Article II of the Constitution to conduct such warrantless surveillance to prevent catastrophic attacks on the homeland, " the Justice Department document said.
The Constitution establishes treaties in Article II (which sets out the president's executive powers), rather than in Article I (which defines the legislature's authority) so treaties therefore aren't textually subject to the limits on Congress's power.
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Olson gave the Justices two: the 1887 law and Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which gives state legislators, not a state's judges, the authority to decide how members of the Electoral College will be chosen.
Meanwhile, the media, mouthing phrases like "Article II authority, " "separation of powers" and "right to privacy, " are presenting the issues as if politics have nothing to do with what is driving the subject matter and its coverage.
The president's meeting and conversation with Betty Currie on Sunday, January 18 is a central element in the allegation of obstruction set forth in Article II, and you will hear more about that from Cheryl Mills today.
Instead, Article II of the Constitution empowers each state (and the District of Columbia) to conduct its own election, which is why there are variations in voter registration laws, early voting, the use of voting machines, etc.
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They're nothing more than an effort to inflate the number of perjury allegations by converting every answer that the president gave to the grand jury about the subject matter of Article II into a new count of perjury.
Again, I do not believe this standard to be required in impeachment trials, but because I believe that the other three factual allegations of Article II do meet that standard, I adopt it for the purposes of this discussion.
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