Sentences with phrase «treason convictions»
Almost all federal treason convictions in the US have involved declared wars.
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The Constitution says the president (and vice president and judges and members of the cabinet) «shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»
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.
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.
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.
II, § 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.»
In 1894, President Sadi Carnot fell victim to an anarchist assassination, while the nationally divisive Dreyfus Affair began with the unlawful conviction for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, an officer of Alsatian and Jewish descent.
31 May: The Calders sponsor an ad in the New York Times calling for Richard Nixon's impeachment: Upon the Impeachment of Richard Nixon, «for high crimes and misdemeanors, the Constitution of the United States, provides that he, among others shall be removed from office... for conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.»
675 (QL), advising that Louis Riel should not be granted leave to appeal his conviction for high treason.
Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution provides that «for any Speech or Debate in either House, [a Senator or Representative] shall not be questioned in any other Place», thus the Senator could not be prosecuted for anything said on the Senate floor, and, by extension, for anything entered to the Congressional Record, allowing the Papers to be publicly read without threat of a treason trial and conviction.