Liz Cheney Will Get a Medal for Attainder
President Biden, in honoring the former congresswoman and one of her colleagues on the J6 committee, ignores one of the most important prohibitions in constitutional law.

President Biden’s plan to bestow on Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Congressman Bennie Thompson Citizen’s Medals is being described by the Times as a continuation of his push for “bipartisanship and decency in politics.” Yet we see the January 6 committee, and the work of its members, as violations of the constitutional prohibition on bills of attainder — that is, the prohibition of trial by legislature.
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