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War and Emergency Powers

September 27, 2017 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

The prospect of war abroad and insurrection at home are not thoughts we welcome. However, I’m not sure they can much longer be avoided. Abroad North Korea, ruled by a fat little despot with a bad haircut, has nuclear bombs, is developing missiles to deliver them and threatens to use the weapons against the […]

Religious Tests Under the Constitution

September 13, 2017 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Judiciary / Religion

Religious Tests Under the Constitution California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, abetted by Senate Colleagues recently demeaned the Catholic faith of a nominee to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal. The nominee, Amy Barrett, is a professor of law from Norte Dame. She has impeccable legal, intellectual and educational credentials and once clerked for Supreme […]

The Commerce Clause

June 29, 2017 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress

Before President Trump took office, I addressed the possibility of him abrogating treaties and agreements signed by President Obama. Since President Obama often eschewed the formal process outlined in the Constitution and acted on his own, the accords he signed can also be unilaterally nullified by a subsequent President without offending the Constitution. Since President […]

Seating Congressmen

June 28, 2017 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress

As someone who held elective office for over two decades, I would counsel those who choose to run for political office against knocking some rude, obnoxious reporter on his behind. It’s not that you don’t want to do it; it’s not that some of them don’t deserve it; its not that that it wouldn’t garner […]

Commerce Clause Part II, “The Switch in Time That Saved Nine”

June 21, 2017 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Congress / Presidency

Considering the arrogance and vitriol of rulings by the Federal Courts on President’s Trumps Travel Ban, one wonders if a major confrontation between the Executive Branch and the Federal Judiciary is brewing. We have had such a confrontation before. In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt had just been re-elected President by a landslide. His party dominated both […]

Category: Congress

War and Emergency Powers

Religious Tests Under the Constitution

The Commerce Clause

Seating Congressmen

Commerce Clause Part II, “The Switch in Time That Saved Nine”