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Rep. Rangel gets court date to fight congressional censure
The Washington Times ^
| August 19, 2014
| Stephen Dinan
Posted on 08/19/2014 12:23:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
A federal appeals court has set a Nov. 13 date to hear oral arguments in Rep. Charles Rangel’s lawsuit against his House colleagues, who censured the New York Democrat in 2010.
Mr. Rangel has argued the House failed to give him due process when it investigated and voted to censure him, and he is seeking to have the smear expunged.
His case has already been rejected by a federal district court, which said he didn’t have standing to sue and, even if he did, the court wouldn’t touch what was an internal House matter, better left as a “political question.”
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censure; charlierangel; courtappeal; rangel
Rangel the Rat should probably be in jail for tax evasion, censure pales in comparison.
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:23:12 PM PDT
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jazusamo
To: jazusamo
...And stuff we don’t know about. Yet.
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:30:02 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Please $upport Free Republic.)
To: jazusamo
LEAVE CHARLIE ALONE!!!
To: jazusamo
There is no due process. Co-equal branches.
Each chamber makes its own rules. The court has no role in internal House matters.
-PJ
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:32:29 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:32:47 PM PDT
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jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: Political Junkie Too
Exactly, and you’d think the senile old turkey would realize that.
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08/19/2014 12:34:01 PM PDT
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jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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posted on
08/19/2014 12:45:06 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: Political Junkie Too; jazusamo
You're right, except Scotus disagreed in 1969.
The Warren court determined another black demagogue scumbag, Rangel's predecessor, from Harlem by the name of Adam Clayton Powell could not be turned out of the House.
The situation was not identical to Rangel's, who was not denied a House seat.
Powell v McCormack.
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08/19/2014 1:44:57 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Article V. If not now, when?)
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