Congress – Phil Cline

Agencies and Injunctions

March 16, 2025 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Judiciary / Presidency / Separation of Powers

Cline on the Constitution – Administrative Agencies and Universal Injunctions What’s the deal on Separation of Powers? President Trump, in exercising the powers of his office over Federal Administrative agencies, has put news patrons into paroxysms of wailing, weeping and gnashing of teeth. Such audacity. Woeful moans echo down the endless, dark hallways in Washington D.C. […]

Presidential Succession

October 5, 2020 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

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 […]

A Deal’s a Deal’s

August 23, 2020 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress

Cline on the Constitution Hey Oklahoma, A Deal’s a Deal! Or is it? After my usual Summer hiatus, I am happily turning back to take a closer look at some of the Major Supreme Court cases decided last term. There are some good ones to explore before the new term opens in October. Let’s start with something fun, […]

Cline on the Constitution

April 12, 2020 by philcline in Bill of Rights / Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Religion

Cline on the Constitution, Interfering with Religious Practices Over a hundred years ago, Justice Louis Brandeis said, “experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to […]

Cline on the Constitution

February 4, 2020 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

Cline on the Constitution, Impeachment Chronicles, Part Four As of this writing, Senators are availing themselves of the opportunity to take to the floor of the Senate to explain how they will vote regarding the impeachment of the President. And why. Their speeches at this point it is all about home district consumption. While District Attorney, […]

Impeachment Part Three

January 26, 2020 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

Cline on the Constitution – Impeachment Chronicles, Part Three – On to the Senate! Last week, members of the House of Representatives finally showed up in the Senate to pursue the Impeachment of President Trump. I followed the proceedings in the Senate, with an idea of picking out various constitutional issues to discuss. What the week […]

Cline on the Constitution

December 23, 2019 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

Impeachment Chronicles – Part III I admit to being somewhat mystified. My goal in writing these posts is to make the Constitution understandable to the citizens to whom it belongs. However, even for someone steeped in the more intricate elegance of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the events of the last couple of weeks […]

Impeachment continued

December 8, 2019 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

Cline on the Constitution Impeachment Chronicles – Part Two The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives held a hearing last week. It was a yeoman’s attempt to underpin all the speculations and opinions being passed off as facts with legal speculations and opinions on whether all the speculations and opinions would be enough to […]

Right to Confront Witnesses

October 20, 2019 by philcline in Bill of Rights / Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

In 1603, Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most celebrated men of his era, was brought to trial for treason based upon accusations generated by the Spanish Ambassador. The evidence used against him was testimony taken in secret and a letter by an alleged accomplice, a man named Cobham. Raleigh demanded the witness against him be […]

Executive Privilege

May 12, 2019 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

This week’s edition of Cline on the Constitution Executive Privilege It seems every year we have at least one descriptive term that evolves into a sacrosanct badge of being politically correct. We’ve had “diversity”, we’ve had “homeless”, and a number of others it wouldn’t take long to conjure. The terms are over-used, frequently misused and so […]

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