And both Article I and Article II are constitutionally deficient for other reasons as well.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
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
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?
And the answer is that in a chronological flow Article II, the obstruction facts precede much of the perjury allegations.
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
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.
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.
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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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.
Only three justices--Chief Justice William Rehnquist , Justice Antonin Scalia , and Justice Clarence Thomas --concluded that the recount order itself violated the Article II of the Constitution, which grants authority to state legislatures, or other provisions of federal law.
In other words, the independent counsel's referral and the majority counsel's presentation suggest that there is some kind of equal sign between a violation by a president of any number of laws in the statute books on the one side, and the impeachment provisions of Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution on the other.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
Per Article 7 (b) (ii) of the Convention, States Parties undertake, at the request of the State Party "of origin", to take appropriate steps to recover and return any such cultural property imported after the entry into force of this Convention in both States concerned, provided, however, that the requesting State shall pay just compensation to an innocent purchaser or to a person who has valid title to that property.
In a particularly ferocious battle in Najaf, Iraq, in 2007, he recalled in a military article how U.S. fighters had to resort to World War II-style tactics to persevere.
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The aforementioned Journal article specifically cited the struggles of Forrest Yeager, a 91-year old World War II veteran who, thanks to short-term CD rates paying less than 1% interest, has been forced to dig deeper into his principal in order to get by on a monthly basis.
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