it would be different if the framers had used different language — e.g., “The President may pardon offenses.” But that’s not the language, and a textualist/originalist should take the language seriously.
“Seeking to soothe feathers ruffled by comments from the US ambassador to Berlin, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert only made it worse by citing the Allied landings in Normandy as an example of US ties with Germany.”
“The latest investigation centers on 95-year-old Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister, a former SS Rottenfuehrer — roughly equivalent to corporal — suspected of serving with one of the death squads in Ukraine.”
“[His wife], a U.S. citizen, said she and Villavicencio married five years ago and now have two daughters, ages 2 and 3.”
“About 200 federal officers blitzed two locations of Corso’s Flower and Garden Center. Agents surrounded the perimeter of the Castalia location, blocking off nearby streets as helicopters flew overhead. Dozens of the workers’ children were left stranded at day-care centers and with babysitters, local activists wrote on social media.”
“Shamdasani told a UN briefing Tuesday that the practice of separating families amounted to an ‘arbitrary and unlawful’ interference in family life, calling it a ‘serious violation’ of the rights of children, the Associated Press reported.”
RICHMOND, Va. (June 6, 2018) – After refusing to do so for years, Republicans in Virginia helped Democrats expand Medicaid, and by extension Obamacare. The Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget bill including Medicaid expansion last week after four GOP senators joined ranks with the Democrats. Nineteen Republicans also voted in favor of the bill in…
While many of the histories of this time portray the antagonist against the British as a tax revolt, the open condemnation of standing armies reveals that there were other factors that created a schism between two different parts of the British Empire.