Seated from the district. The state elections board unanimously ordered that a new election must be run from scratch. Also today, lawyers for the president s longtime advisor roger stone put mr. Stone on the stand to explain why he put a picture online this week targeting the federal judge who is overseeing his case. That judge did not jail roger stone today, which she might have done. She did issue a strict gag order and she warned that if stone breaks the gag order by speaking pub l publicly about his case in any way, he will go to jail ahead of his trial. The judge told him today specifically, quote, i will find it necessary to adjust your environme environment. So been a very busy, busy news day and of course, the weather system looming over everybodys environment now is reports from multiple News Agencies that the Mueller Investigation may soon be producing its report. Now, as always, the most important thing there is that nobody really knows other than mueller and his team and th
Violence and oppression, we are told in the introduction to this collection of tales, are foundational to modern Taiwan, providing “a legacy that continues to influence its contemporary society.”
It is interesting, then, that an anthology subtitled “Stories about the White Terror,” offers few instances of physical violence, a notable exception being a neighborhood dust-up involving a gossip nicknamed Big Mouth Yang.
This incident, from Sung Tse-lai’s (宋澤萊) “Rice Diary,” is the first snapshot in a montage of quotidian happenings in the village of Daniunan (打牛湳), Yunlin County. The story forms part of a series focusing on life in this village
important can be subject to criminal process. and that the o s one of the mem sited for the proposition. when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasn t clear how to answer but got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heart beat away problem. got answered against the imperative heart beat away from the presidency problem and that is sort of critical for then and now. what the dixson memo said in 1973, what that memo said was you could indict a vice president but incidentally, you couldn t indict a president and the way that the history has been remembered since then is that that 1973 olc memo was written specifically with the richard nixon watergate problem in mind and a definitive look at
and when you read that 1973 opinion in full, what j.t. smith is saying is true. in terms of the historical record, dixson s opinion states right there in black and white that quote there is no expressed provision in the constitution which confers such immunity upon the president. and that s note worthy because the constitution does and preex provide for prosecution for officials but there is nothing in the constitution providing immunity for prosecution to the president. dixson also notes in the opinion when you go through the various writing debates quote, there are strong statements by others to the point that the convention did not wish to confer such privileges meaning immunity on the president. later on he says quote, the historical evidence on the precise point is not conclusive and yet, he ultimately puts in at the end even though you can t make heads or tails of what the framers in the constitution intended during the past
voice on voting rights and election law but now being asked to figure out if it was constitutional to indict a sitting vice president. and what robert dixson ultimately concluded back in the fall of 1973 just ahead of agnew resigning in office, in the midst of that crisis around that criminal vice president, dixson s answer when he was asked that question about agnew for decades now it has been used to support the position that a president can t be indicted. what he went through that fall to form late that ocpinion is stunning. a former justice department official named j.t. smith. j.t. smith searched at the cia and defense department and that fall of 1973 he was serving in the justice department and one of the closest advisors to the attorney general elliott richardson and the executive assistant. and j.t. smith was there, was there when richardson asked the