PSC 4361 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Antonin Scalia, Textualism, Theodore Olson
16 Oct 2017
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When two house subcommittees began investigating the epa and land and natural resources division of the justice. Department and asked them to present certain documents, a debate arose over whether the legislature had the power to demand documents from the executive branch. When the committee issued the report on the investigation, it suggested that the assistant attorney. General, theodore olson, had provided false and misleading statements during his testimony, and they requested an independent counsel to further investigate. Olson refused to produce evidence requested and argued that the provision in the ethics in government act about independent counsels violated the constitution, and thus special prosecutor alexia. Morrison did not have the right to request such evidence. U. s. constitution: article ii, section 2 (appointments clause) Does the ethics in government act of 1978 violate article ii, section 2 of the u. s. Legal reasoning: does the ethics in government act of 1978 violate article ii, section 2 of the.
