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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 a...

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 t...

Important can be subject to criminal process. and that the os 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 wasnt 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 ...

And when you read that 1973 opinion in full, what j.t. smith is saying is true. in terms of the historical record, dixsons 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 thats 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 o...

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, dixsons answer when he was asked that question about agnew for decades now it has been used to support the position that a president cant be indicted. what he went through that fall to form ...

House as vice president. he was literally taking envel e envelopes of cash cribs inside his vice presidential office and because of what those prosecutors had turned up, that fall of 1973, attorney general elliott richardson had a problem because he knew what spiro agnew were up to and if richard nixon went down in watergate, an active criminal was next in line to replace him. but it was not entirely clear to the attorney general if he, if the justice department could actually bring charges agai...

Head of the olc robert dixson to come up with an official justice department answer to the suddenly very pressing question about whether a sitting vice president could be indicted. and what j.t. smith told us in an interview for bagman is that robert dixson, that pressure packed fall of 1973, robert dixson really wasnt sure what the right answer was to that question. listen. >> he was asked by the attorney general as one should do to write an objective legal opinion on the amenability of the vic...

Sitting vice president and he was using anything he could to get agnew out of office. his opinion did conclude as richardson wanted that a vice president can be indicted but listen to what j.t. smith says and what else got folded into the opinion for robert dixson to get to that desired position. >> he could have written it either yes or no. and he wrote it yes but in order to get to yes, he had to draw a distinction between the vice president and the president. so the opinion came down on the s...

The policy on this, what the justice department position was can you indict a sitting president and 40 count felony indictment against the president simmering on the stove on the u.s. attorneys office in maryland ready to be served up at any time. was he in fact immune from such federal charges? could that indictment be filed against him? legally they needed to know. also, practically. with nixon teetering because of watergate, with the threat with the guy that would succeed nixon was a known an...

The issue of whether a president can be indicted and the context of watergate, they believe that nixon really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and again, he was there when it was written is in the course of expressing the view that a vice president can be indicted, which was the imperative of the moment, robert dixson opined on the presidents ameanbility to the indic...