The Speech or Debate Clause is a clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1). The clause states that "The Senators and Representatives"...
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special case where a member of Congress is the defendant, the Speech or Debate Clause places certain restrictions on the actions that can be prosecuted...
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the Speech or Debate Clause of Article One of the United States Constitution—providing that: "[F]or any Speech or Debate in either House, [Senators or Representatives]...
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Gravel v. United States (category Speech or Debate Clause case law)
606 (1972), was a case regarding the protections offered by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution. In the case, the Supreme Court...
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considers its information-gathering function protected by the speech or debate clause; or believes that the use falls under the "fair use" doctrine of...
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Parliamentary privilege (redirect from Privilege speech)
Doherty disclosed the details in Dáil Éireann speeches which were broadcast by RTÉ. Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution Executive...
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Clause Free Speech Clause Free Press Clause Free Assembly Clause Petition Clause Search and Seizure Clause Double Jeopardy Clause Due Process Clause (along...
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leaders during their tenure and in the course of their duties Speech or Debate Clause, a provision in the United States Constitution that provides immunity...
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wrote: The existing broad protections of the Speech or Debate Clause – absolute immunity from prosecution or suit for legislative acts and freedom from...
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United States v. Johnson (1966) (category Speech or Debate Clause case law)
an intensive inquiry with respect to the speech on the floor of the House, violated the speech or debate clause of Article I section 6, so as to warrant...
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of the United States Servicemen's Fund. The U.S. Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause barred the court from questioning the good faith of the committee's...
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Kilbourn v. Thompson (category Speech or Debate Clause case law)
they were exercising their official duties and protected by the Speech and Debate Clause, Art. I, § 6, cl. 1. In addition the Supreme Court established...
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interpreted the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III of the United States Constitution (found in Art. III, Section 2, Clause 1) as embodying two distinct...
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Presidential immunity in the United States (section Special counsel determinations and further debate)
grants legislative immunity to members of Congress through the Speech or Debate Clause, but has no explicit comparable grant for the president. Early...
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he was temporarily a member of the legislative branch, so the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution protects him from being "questioned" about...
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rule on the constitutionality of the Act. This case was the first Speech or Debate Clause case the Supreme Court took up since 1979. In 2002, Brad Hanson...
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Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause in federal legislative branch employment lawsuits. He held that the Speech or Debate Clause barred discrimination...
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The Privileges or Immunities Clause is Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution. Along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment...
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Senator in newsletters and press releases were not protected by the Speech or Debate Clause. In 1975, Senator William Proxmire created the "Golden Fleece Award"...
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of the Speech or Debate Clause in Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution. That clause provides that "for any Speech or Debate in either...
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Free Speech Clause)
regarding the Free Speech Clause and the Petition Clause: It is not necessary to say that the two Clauses are identical in their mandate or their purpose and...
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of Congressman William Jennings Jefferson's office violated the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution of the United States). Canadian examples of...
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Powell v. McCormack (category Speech or Debate Clause case law)
judge of its members' qualifications (Art. I, § 5, cl. 1) and the Speech or Debate Clause (Art. I, § 6) do not preclude judicial review of Constitutional...
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States, 408 U.S. 606 (1972) The privileges of the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause enjoyed by members of Congress also extend to Congressional aides...
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has "absolute immunity from civil suit" under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause. In November 2020, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election...
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McCloskey – about publishing the documents, on the grounds that the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution would give congressional members immunity from...
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where a federal appeals court ruled that the FBI had violated the Speech or Debate clause of the United States Constitution by allowing the executive branch...
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research were protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that that clause does not immunize members of...
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his statements about Hutchinson's research were protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United...
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United States, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution's "Speech or Debate Clause" protected Gravel and some acts of his aide, but not Beacon Press...
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