‘Speech or debate’ clause invoked in investigations of House members
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 17th, 2011 5:37 am by HL
‘Speech or debate’ clause invoked in investigations of House members
A constitutional clash over whether House members are immune from many forms of Justice Department scrutiny has helped derail or slow several recent corruption investigations of lawmakers, according to court documents and sources.
Winners and losers in the race for Republican Party chairman
The election of Reince Priebus as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee late last week was that rarest of events in modern politics: a dramatic series of votes in which the outcome was genuinely uncertain.
The Fix’s political roundup
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex.), commenting to National Journal on the influence of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in the open Senate race in Cornyn’s home state. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) announced this week that she will not seek reelection, and DeMint …
Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They’re laughing with you.
Dear lawyers: Supreme Court justices are not laughing at you. They are laughing with you.
Giffords’s border district symbolizes the heat of Arizona politics
DOUGLAS, ARIZ. – The congresswoman’s grueling path to reelection took her from her Tucson base across the barren high desert, through an empty expanse of tumbleweed and mesquite trees, to this dusty town at the Mexican border that has come to symbolize the tinderbox of Arizona politics.
