Category: Presidency

Presidential Succession

Presidential Succession

Cline on the Constitution Presidential Succession The President has the Covid.  He’s sick and in the hospital.  According to expectations, medical and otherwise, there is a 95% chance he will okay.  He’s expected to be discharged any day now.  But what if he suffers a turn for the worse?  Well, the Vice President seems healthy enough.  So far, so good.  But the […]

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Impeachment

Impeachment

The Impeachment Chronicles-Part One Demands for the impeachment of President Trump have come from various quarters since before he was sworn into office.  Any pretext has sufficed.  If one turned out to be groundless, another has been quickly adopted.  There are two major characteristics in the demands.   The first is that there is an intense desire to remove […]

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Cline on the Constitution – Interpretation

Cline on the Constitution – Interpretation

In November, President Trump referred to a federal District Court Judge as an “Obama judge.”  Uncharacteristically, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, rebutted the President in a public statement.  He said, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges, . . . (an) independent judiciary is something we should […]

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