1. The framers made a special rule for a traitors' children and grandchildren. Insurrection, that turns to violence like the #CapitolAttack was charged as treason during and after the Civil War. Why did framers make it constitutional to punish a traitor's descendants?
2. Here it is:
"The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted." III, 2, 2.
"The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted." III, 2, 2.
3. Have you folks discussed your decision with your children? Their children? Their children's' children? @HawleyMO @tedcruz @SenHydeSmith @ScottforFlorida @CynthiaMLummis @RogerMarshallMD @TTuberville @mobrooks @laurenboebert @mtgreenee @replouiegohmert
How about your staff?
How about your staff?
4. I have an idea from my law practice of over 30 years. I have cited in briefs Statutes 13 Elizabeth that was enacted to allow the crown to seize the assets of the Catholics who were pursued by the Protestant Queen. It is the basis for American common law
5. fraudulent conveyance law. It's my area of practice that often involves pursuing a person who received property for no value or with knowledge the transfer was a fraud on creditors even though they gave value. Banks doing business with a known criminal can lose
6. its lien to people like my clients that have included Bankruptcy trustees. That may explain why @DeutscheBank has come back to the world of law-abiding bankers. It's one of the oldest motivations: Money.
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