here inoctober 2019, presumably on the advice of council trump is fervently asserting that he has a right to: "to be confronted with the witnesses against him in connection with the possible impeachment process; that right is in the 6th amendment , of the bill of
rights
http://constitutionus.com/#rbillofrights but that right, by its terms only arises in the context of criminal law.
i myself never practiced criminal law, and only studied it just enough to pass the bar, and i think, but don't know for sure that it's possible to accidentally waive constitutional rights,(for example, if you assert your right to remain silent, but start talking anyway, you might be deemed to have waived that right, i wonder if trump has accidentally waived his right, if any, to avoid criminal indictment, or even investigation, as a sitting president.
along the same line, do you remember when republicans strenuously asserted, "judges are not supposed to make law," but seem perfectly content to accept "law made by an unelected staff lawyer" somewhere.(BTW,we are a common law legal system, judges(not staff attorneys) have been making law for centuries
i've got a million of them. (do i sound like andy rooney?
(if a conservative lawyer says "judges shouldn't make law, ask him or her why he or she spent so much time in law school with the "restatements of the law(thick volumes in every area of law which seek to explain the thousands of cases in which judges made law over the centuries!)
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