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All state officers (including the governor, justices of the Supreme Court, and judges of the Superior Court, etc.) during their tenure in office as well as the two years after they leave office Chief justice of the Supreme Court "Misdemeanor while in office" [51] New Mexico: House of Representatives (support of majority of the membership needed ...
Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois, 497 U.S. 62 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision that held that the First Amendment forbids a government entity from basing its decision to promote, transfer, recall, or hire low-level public employees based upon their party affiliation.
The court declined to dismiss, but stayed the trial until Clinton's presidency ended. The Eighth Circuit affirmed, and in Clinton v. Jones the U.S. Supreme Court in turn affirmed the Eighth Circuit, holding that presidential immunity generally does not extend to lawsuits over matters that predate the president taking office. [16]
Having said that, Smith points to the case of Senator William Blout, who, in 1797, was technically impeached after he had left office—though being a member of Congress instead of the president ...
The Presidential Pension: What They Make After Leaving Office. When the president leaves office, they are still considered a federal employee and therefore receive an annual pension, travel ...
Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. [1]
Its constitutionality was tested by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1993 Nixon v. United States case, arising from the 1989 impeachment trial of Walter Nixon, in which the Supreme Court upheld the United States Senate's authority to determine its own procedures, which includes its decision to opt for use of Rule XI trial ...
The nation's high court overturned an earlier decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, which found Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment by leading an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on ...