Right to Confrontation: The Latest Bogus Legal Argument over the ‘Whistleblower’
Posted on AllSides November 7th, 2019
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OPINION
Impeachment is neither a criminal trial nor a legal process, so the president does not have the constitutional right to confront his accuser.
As a constitutional lawyer, Rand Paul makes a good medical doctor.
I used to have occasion to say that in the Patriot Act debates, when the senator was wowing us with his Fourth Amendment theories. With impeachment upon us, he’s now onto the Sixth Amendment — specifically, the confrontation clause. It guarantees the right of cross-examination: In all criminal trials, the accused must be given the right...
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