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Saturday, December 21, 2019

“A Law Professor’s Provocative Argument: Trump Has Not Yet Been Impeached; Other legal academics took issue with his view that impeachment only happens when the House transmits its charges to the Senate.” Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Andrew Blake of The Washington Times reports that “Democrat witness says Trump not impeached until articles sent to Senate.”

Martin Finucane of The Boston Globe has an article headlined “Has Trump been officially impeached? 2 prominent Harvard Law professors respectfully disagree on Twitter.”

And online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate; According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote.”

Posted at 10:58 AM by Howard Bashman



“Bill seeks to regionalize how Pa. elects its Commonwealth, Superior, and Supreme court judges”: Jan Murphy of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

You can view at this link the text of the legislation proposing a constitutional amendment.

Posted at 10:20 AM by Howard Bashman



“Trump vs. John Roberts: A 2020 battle for the Supreme Court’s reputation; Between the impeachment trial and a series of cases about presidential power, Roberts will struggle to keep the high court out of the political muck.” Darren Samuelsohn of Politico has this report.

Posted at 10:14 AM by Howard Bashman



“This One Footnote Proves the Latest Obamacare Ruling Is Pure Partisan Hackery. Some scholars want the inappropriate passage removed. Here’s why it should stay.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Posted at 10:10 AM by Howard Bashman