Tag: Nixon v. United States
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The Time For Playing Games Is Over
THE U.S. SENATE VS. “THE PELOSI POLKA” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Jan. 6, 2020) — Well, well, well. Maybe it is just a coincidence, but the statement yesterday morning by Senator Lindsey Graham tracks very closely the tactic posited by Ren Jander here and by your faithful servant here. Whether or not Senators Mitch McConnell…
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Of Middle Ground and the Impasse
“BEYOND COMICAL” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Dec. 26, 2019) — As the online debate continues over whether (or not) to end the “impasse” between Senator Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi with respect to House Resolution 755, we still have heard nothing dispositive from either side suggesting that a resolution of the matter is at hand.…
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The “End It Now” Option
“FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Dec. 24, 2019) — Ren Jander may be on to something with his recent post positing that, as a matter of constitutional law – backed up by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993) – the U.S. Senate need not…