A Discussion of Congressional Legal Issues
According to several news accounts in the last week, a Minnesota student group is working to end “legislative immunity from drunk driving arrests.” Apparently someone believes that Minnesota state legislators are immune from arrest for DWI based on Article IV, section 10, of the Minnesota Constitution, which provides that “members of each house in all cases except …
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To: Edmund Randolph, Attorney General of the United States From: Paul Colborn (J.D. expected May 1793), Office of Legal Counsel Date: April 1, 1792 Re: Assertion of executive privilege in response to congressional requests for information In preparation for tomorrow’s cabinet meeting, you have requested the opinion of this office on a matter of some delicacy. On …
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Note to self- do not make casual observations about state statutes you know nothing about. Because it turns out that the New Jersey election law I cited in my last post is only one of two (or, who knows, maybe more) provisions that the New Jersey legislature, in its wisdom, has seen fit to enact …