Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...
Even armed insurrection was met with the mercy of pardons in the earliest days of the Republic.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Abolishing birthright citizenship would mark a qualitative new step in a legal counterrevolution and would fundamentally ...
the framers of which gave Congress the power to declare-the punishment of treason, there is full, complete and unlimited authority, but with the absolute prohibition that no attainder of treason ...
Yet we see the January 6 committee, and the work of its members, as violations of the constitutional prohibition on bills of attainder — that is, the prohibition of trial by legislature. This ...
But there's one that might have flown under people's radar: the five-part miniseries Treason, which debuted on Netflix in 2022. Treason was notable for being created by Matt Charman, the writer ...
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