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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 about his case in any way, he will go to jail ahead of his trial. The judge told him today specifical...

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), Yunli...

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 presi...

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 other...

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 ...