The case was about walter nixon. Three articles of impeachment where. Did. Were adopted. Drama focused on what happened in the senate. Impeachmentesented rule 11. Ofre was a Committee Senators appointed to receive testimony and that is what the committee did. And based on the committee report, the senate convicted judge nixon. He was removed from office. He sued and said senate rule 11 violates the constitutional grant of authority for the senate to try all impeachment does it prohibits the whole senate from participating. In the District Court and the court of appeals said the claim was nonjews nonjudicial ball. It involves a political question. Court agreed. Wasin a decision that unanimous although it has some important concurring opinions, the Supreme Court said it is indeed nonjudicial. And they had a bunch of Different Reasons for that conclusion. Host we talk about judicial due process. Is there such a thing when it comes to impeachment . The requirements of the constitution itse
Last month a threejudge panel on the d. C. Circuit court of appeals heard oral argument on the constitutionality of the senates 60vote filibuster rule. The case is common cause v. Joseph biden. It seeks to have the 60vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster thrown out and replaced with a simple majority rule. The Lower District Court had dismissed the case saying common cause lacked standing to sue. The oral argument runs about half an hour. Good morning. May it please the court, im emmet bondurant, and with me is Steve Spaulding who is staff counsel with common cause. The District Court in this case and ruling on the standing issue here in three very fundamental respects that prejudice the courts entire view of the issue of standing. First, the District Court did not presume that the plaintiffs are entitled to prevail on the merits of their constitutional claims. He ruled precisely the opposite, citing that that is the rule, he ruled that he was not convinced that the plaintif
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