Duke University associate professor of history Adriane Lentz-Smith (Photo: Duke University)
As the U.S. House impeached President Trump for the second time for “incitement of insurrection” Wednesday afternoon, many legal and political science scholars have decried his behavior and are demanding accountability to the Constitution.
The Constitution lays the ground rules in Article 2, Section 4: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Ted Shaw, civil rights and constitutional law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill said, “That ‘
shall’ is a powerful word it doesn’t suggest that there are conditions under which anyone who’s guilty of treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors should be left in office.”
Primary teachers’ timescale facilities: Appellate Division asks HC to dispose of writ petition Star Online Report Star Online Report
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today asked the High Court to hear and dispose of the writ petition filed challenging the government decision over taking back timescale facilities given to 48,720 government primary school teachers in three weeks.
The HC bench led by JBM Hassan has been asked to settle the writ petition through hearing in three weeks after receiving the apex court order, writ petitioner s lawyer Moksadul Islam told The Daily Star.
He said the Appellate Division, however, kept its chamber judge s order intact that had earlier stayed the HC directive which halted the government decision over returning the timescale facilities from primary school teachers.
Wrongful Imprisonment of Md Arman: part of HC verdict over compensation stayed
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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a part of the High Court verdict that directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to give Tk 20 lakh as compensation to a victim, who was wrongly arrested by police and kept in jail instead of the original accused in a case.
Md Arman, a technician at Benarasi Palli in Dhaka s Mirpur, suffered in jail for around five years instead of the original accused in a drug case.
Ahsanullah Master murder case verdict: SC drops leave-to-appeal petitions Star Online Report Star Online Report
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today dropped from its hearing list the leave-to-appeal petitions filed challenging the High Court verdict in Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master murder case.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain dropped the petitions from its list for the time being as one of the judges had earlier dealt with the case and had delivered verdict on it when he was a judge of the HC Division, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, the principal defence lawyer of the case, told The Daily Star.
9 death row convicts in BDR carnage case seek acquittal from Appellate Division
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Nine convicts of the BDR carnage case have filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that confirmed their death sentences handed by the trial court.
The nine convicts collectively submitted the 55,623-page appeal through their lawyers to the office concerned of the Appellate Division yesterday (January 5) seeking acquittal of the charges in which they were found guilty and sentenced to death.
The convicted appellants are Sepoy Kamal Mollah, Sepoy Abdul Mohit, Habildar Yusuf Ali, Sepoy Bazlur Rashid, Subedar Major Shahidur Rahman, Nayeb Subedar Fazlul Karim, Habildar ABM Anisuzzaman, Sepoy Md Moniruzzaman and Nayek Abu Sayeed Alam.