Presidency – Phil Cline

Cline on the Constitution

June 13, 2022 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Judiciary / Presidency

Evidence As the Supreme Court withstands an unprecedented intimidation campaign as it prepares to issue an (official) opinion concerning the continued viability, if you will, of Roe v Wade it would be well to keep in mind what is real and what is not. As people like New York Senator Charles Schumer, who has never met […]

The Texas Lawsuit

December 13, 2020 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Judiciary / Presidency

So, what was the Texas lawsuit all about? With one or two exceptions, I haven’t paid very close attention to the lawsuits filed in some states on behalf of President Trump challenging the election results. A couple of reasons. First, as a former prosecutor, I’m familiar with what it takes to put together an actual […]

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 […]

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 […]

Impeachment

November 24, 2019 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Presidency

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 […]

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 […]

Cline on the Constitution – Interpretation

May 27, 2019 by philcline in Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Judiciary / Presidency

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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