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As a student, Whitfield worked in the State Treasurer's office and after graduating from U.K. Law School he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1973. He represented Hopkinsville and parts of Trigg County and was a member of the Democratic Party.
The congressional delegation theory argued that removal powers would need to be delegated by Congress in law. Under the theory, Congress would have the power to grant authority to remove officials under the Necessary and Proper Clause. It also reasoned that since Congress was implied to have the Constitutional power to create executive offices ...
Chief Judge Hogan, in a 28-page ruling, acknowledged that the "facts and questions of law presented here are indeed unprecedented", but wrote that it is "well-established" that a Congressman is "generally bound to the operation of the criminal laws as are ordinary persons", and that the Speech or Debate Clause does not "make Members of Congress ...
May was born on Beaver Creek, near Prestonsburg in Floyd County, Kentucky, on June 24, 1875.On June 25, 1898, he and his twin brother William H. May graduated from Southern Normal University Law School in Huntingdon, Tennessee (later named Union University, Jackson, Tennessee), and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing his law practice in Prestonsburg.
He resumed the practice of law in Lexington, Kentucky, and became professor of law in Transylvania University 1834–1857. Robertson was elected as a Whig a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1848, 1851, and 1852, and served as speaker in the two last-named years. He served as justice of the Court of Appeals for the Second ...
From 2017 through this year, the Herald-Leader has reported on violence, abuse and neglect inside the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice. Youths held in Kentucky’s juvenile detention ...
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history. Three of those six were expelled in 1861 for joining the Confederate States of America. [2]
William Jason Fields (December 29, 1874 – October 21, 1954) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky.Known as "Honest Bill from Olive Hill", he represented Kentucky's Ninth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1923, resigning to become the state's 41st governor.