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Two months ago, I detailed Trump’s powers under the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants the President the power to declare an illegal insurrection against the United States of America and strip Electoral College votes from states which are engaged in a coordinated insurrection.

While it’s uncertain whether President Donald Trump will declare a national state of emergency, doing so wouldn’t be unprecedented, as the U.S. still operates under 31 such orders. Whether his actions would be warranted, or legal, is also hotly debated. Trump renewed his threat Thursday, saying he would almost “definitely” declare a national state of emergency if a deal isn’t reached with Democrats in Congress to end a stalemate over funding a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The federal government shutdown caused by the dispute is now in its 20th day. “If this doesn’t work out, probably I will do it,” he...

Pardons Granted by President Barack Obama (2009-2017) Search All Pardons and Commutations Menu January 17, 2017 | December 19, 2016 | January 16, 2016 | December 18, 2015 | December 17, 2014 | December 19, 2013 | March 1, 2013 | November 21, 2011 | May 20, 2011 | December 3, 2010 January 17, 2017 James Robert Adelman Offense: Conspiracy to embezzle by trustee or officer; embezzlement by trustee (five counts); making a false account (Northern District of Oklahoma) Sentence: 12 years' imprisonment; $350,000 restitution (February 27, 1989) John Clyde Anderson Offense: Conspiracy to import a controlled substance (Southern District...

Hearings On Presidential Power - Allegation Obama Disregarding Costitution - The Kelly File

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research. Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted...

<p>Maryland Democrats are attempting to overthrow the State Constitution of Maryland.</p> <p>All civil officers nominated by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate, shall be nominated to the Senate within forty days from the commencement of each regular session of the Legislature; and their term of office, except in cases otherwise provided for in this Constitution, shall commence on the first Monday of May next ensuing their appointment, and continue for two years (unless removed from office), and until their successors, respectively, qualify according to law (amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956; Chapter 161, Acts of 1964, ratified Nov. 3, 1964; Chapter 576, Acts of 1970, ratified Nov. 3, 1970).</p>

Jimmy Carter shows his only colors are all partisan.. Deciding to desecrate the funeral of Coretta Scott King , the former president decided to ignore the grief of the King Family, to throw away the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., and focused his speech on attacking the President of the United States. Why? Because he could so he did. This is the essence of hate.. Why the Left Wing is so bereft of leadership, bereft of a path, bereft of morals. Their whole platform is simple hate. “I hate the President”, “I hate the USA”, “I hate Children”, “I...

Article 4, section 4 of the United States Constitution states the following: Sect. 4. The United States shall guarantee, to every State in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence. Newsweek, in an article to be published Feb 15, 2006 states that the President cannot kill terrorist here on American Soil. ...Current and former government officials said they could think of several scenarios in which a president might consider ordering the killing of...

Kudo's to Michelle Malkin for the heads up on this, but a former Clinton Advisor, named H. Byron Cunningham, has sent a letter to the Senate Judicial Committee (Sen's Spector and "Leaky" Leahy) to proclaim constitutional arguments that have been laid to the side by those opposed to any foreign monitoring of Terrorist and enemy communications against the United States. In it he makes the following Executive Points Two Centuries of Supreme Court and other Legal Precident strongly suggests that the National Security Agency program to intercept international communications of foreign terrorist is consistent with the Constitution and , therefore,...

Why they change the subject Al Knight Denver Post Columnist Sunday, March 16, 2003 - The U.S. Senate spent much of the last week debating partial-birth abortion and the Miguel Estrada nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. While these are starkly different subjects, a common theme was easily spotted in the Senate debates. Most Republicans - who support a ban on partial-birth abortions and who back President Bush's judicial nominee - tried to focus on the central matters at hand. Democrats, in contrast, generally used all of their considerable oratorical skills to simply change the subject. Why, one...