Take those oaths that carry far less penalty — there are the informal oaths we take every day, assuring a friend we will keep something in confidence.
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Legislative Council President Andrew Leung had agreed to allow the lawmakers to retake their oaths, along with three others whose oaths were deemed to have been ineffective.
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Both inserted what many consider to be a derogatory term for China into their oaths of office last month, and both were told that they must retake their oaths.
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What a betrayal of their oaths -- and their country.
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That is how, in solemn silence, warriors take their oaths.
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"Liars are always ready to take oaths," the quote read.
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On Wednesday, one Beijing official said as many as 15 lawmakers risked losing their seats over improper oaths, while another detailed what kind of oaths would be considered "insincere," The South China Morning Post reported.
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I hope they will think about the oaths they have taken.
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The Constitution and our oaths to protect it are at stake.
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President George Washington took his oaths in New York City and Philadelphia.
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Lawmakers who used their swearing-in oaths to criticise China were suspended.
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Masons paid dues, swore oaths of loyalty, voted, debated and elected officers.
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"I've only taken two oaths since I've been a senator," he said.
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Senators need to build confidence and demonstrate some respect for their oaths.
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So they have clearly put personal professional advantage ahead of their oaths.
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Presidents and police officers take similar oaths, to protect and defend the Constitution.
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Thankfully, Angel fully rejects Stan, his manipulations, and his fake fairy tale oaths.
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Yet public shaming, oaths, bans, floggings and fines couldn't prevent bribery at Olympia.
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He pressed his right-wing and religious allies to sign multiple loyalty oaths.
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Judges faithful to their oaths will have no choice but to agree with him.
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Oathgate Six lawmakers used their oaths of office to protest Chinese authoritarianism last year.
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Loyalty oaths have been required of people seeking to become U.S. citizens since 6900.
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Oathgate The saga began as lawmakers were taking their oaths of office last month.
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We swore oaths to offer our bodies and lives in service to our nation.
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No other country would accept legislators-elect playing with their oaths in this manner.
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If they consent to false oaths, it will compromise the Senate and the process.
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They all insist that their day jobs, and sworn oaths, are their top priorities.
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Their oaths were rejected by the Hong Kong legislature, and Beijing followed on Nov.
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People's statutory oaths about their gender should be respected, as all other statutory declarations are.
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A few sources passed along some of the choicest oaths, and we've collected them below.
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Three were barred from taking their posts because they failed to recite their oaths properly.
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Those officers made the ultimate sacrifice and died honoring their oaths to protect and serve.
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As licensed professionals, they should know that their ethics and oaths demand such a response.
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Some began to speak out, ignoring oaths they had signed never to discuss their experiences.
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Loyalty oaths, deportation and internment were practiced first on immigrants who were not U.S. citizens.
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The speech proceeded through multiple vows, blood oaths, and encomiums, interrupted by howls and cheers.
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Yau and Leung could not retake their oaths, and would not become lawmakers, Beijing said.
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But the Furies took vengeance on wicked men who hurt women and swore false oaths.
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They applauded the prosecutors for upholding their oaths and standing up for the department's independence.
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It requires lawmakers to read their oaths "completely and solemnly," exactly as written, and orders those who administer oaths to disqualify lawmakers who alter or deliver the words in an "insincere or undignified manner," barring them from office without another chance to be sworn in.
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Others, too, managed to get away with making anti-government statements before or after their oaths.
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If it's up to me, I will not be taking any "oaths," thank you very much.
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Independence-leaning politicians have been kicked out of Legco for failing to take their oaths properly.
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If we ask Donald J. Trump, he'll submit Muslims to "extreme vetting" and demand loyalty oaths.
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Terrorism and national security cases traditionally featured clandestine meetings of secret cells and oaths of loyalty.
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Many posted oaths of loyalty to him on the internet, as though Prince Ahmed were king.
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We have faithfully carried out our duties and upheld our oaths of allegiance to the Constitution.
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The oaths are part of the contract between those who govern and those who are governed.
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The lawmakers' oaths were validated by the secretary of the Legislative Council weeks before Beijing's ruling.
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Mr. Leung, known as Baggio, and Ms. Yau, for instance, agreed to retake their oaths properly.
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Oaths of office can be taken on a Hebrew Bible, or on a Quran, as Rep.
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That is a far cry from the "impartial justice" required by our oaths and the Constitution.
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Patriots formed "committees of safety" to demand loyalty oaths from neighbours suspected of sympathy for the Crown.
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Many of them, like Giuliani, have neither security clearances nor any recently sworn oaths to the Constitution.
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Fidelity to their constitutional oaths might even make it imperative to actively oppose the administration from within.
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Mattis and Kelly are the first members of President Trump's Cabinet to take their oaths of office.
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The Indonesian Doctors Association said that chemical castrations would violate their code of ethics and professional oaths.
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In this case, it intervened to say that office holders must "sincerely and solemnly" take loyalty oaths.
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The young politicians' act of rebellion enraged Beijing, which ruled that candidates must solemnly read their oaths.
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Rather than demand that he step aside, Likud lawmakers have repeatedly signed oaths of loyalty to him.
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Beyond their sense of human decency, these professionals have taken oaths that compel them to do this.
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"We have sworn oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States many times over," they wrote.
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It's shocking to see such a betrayal of the oaths these people took to serve the nation.
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They have just shown that they have no willingness to uphold the Constitution and their oaths of office.
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David Strauss, a law professor at the University of Chicago, observes that oaths are inherently "limiting, not empowering".
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There would be months of churlish resentment on AM radio, oaths to never root for the team again.
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Their right to retake their oaths is also being challenged by the Hong Kong government in local courts.
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The law requires that the national anthem be "played and sung" when lawmakers take their oaths of office.
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Like other oaths we've taken in our lives, we made a promise, and we intend to keep it.
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Six legislators lost their seats over protests related to their oaths, a serious blow to the democratic camp.
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Fortunately, our service members (like all government employees) swear their oaths to the Constitution, not to the president.
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In 2016, Beijing used that power against pro-democracy lawmakers who staged protests during their oaths of office.
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After the Chinese legislature ruled that oaths must be taken "sincerely and solemnly," what happened to the lawmakers?
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State TV on Sunday aired a clip of him accepting oaths of office from two new Saudi ambassadors.
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Legal scholars said that such loyalty oaths could raise legitimate questions about a judicial nominee's independence and impartiality.
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Americans should not cynically dismiss the oaths that senators swore to uphold the Constitution and deliver impartial justice.
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In a chaotic scene on Wednesday, they burst into the legislative chambers and tried to retake their oaths.
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They are failing miserably regarding their oaths of office and their claims to be stewards of our nation.
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Kardashian seemingly responded with a cryptic quote on her Instagram Story: "Liars are always ready to take oaths."
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They will either honor their oaths to our Constitution or be relegated to the dust bin of History.
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A Hong Kong court ruled they hadn't taken their oaths of office properly after inserting several digs at China.
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A judge ruled that the pair had failed to take their oaths "faithfully and truthfully" during their swearing-in.
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Hong Kong's government filed a case against four pro-democracy legislators who it said had improperly taken their oaths.
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PEOPLE learns that King and Scheff face charges for false imprisonment, theft and violating their oaths as law officers.
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An essential part of assuming office consisted of a series of oaths in which the monarch firmly eschewed Catholicism.
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Maybe they were enrolling as lobbyists, requesting City Council transcripts or submitting their Oaths of Office as elected officials.
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Were Congress to impeach on grounds expressly rejected by the framers, they would be violating their oaths of office.
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Most federal employees serve honorably and uphold their oaths of office — those who don't make life difficult for everyone.
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The judge also ruled that the president of the Legislative Council could not let the two retake their oaths.
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Eight more pro-democracy lawmakers face expulsion over the issue Beijing cited: not properly taking their oaths of office.
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They set off the conflict by using a derogatory term for China when they took their oaths of office.
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While their oaths were aborted before they were disqualified, the latest action targets lawmakers who have already taken office.
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Ms. Yau and Mr. Leung had their oaths rejected, and have not been given the opportunity to retake them.
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The pair were due to retake their oaths properly the following week when everything got a lot more complicated.
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"I will not defy death for breathtaking photos, tresspass, or venture beyond safety," one of the pledge's oaths reads.
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That is as true of presidents as it is of newcomers reciting naturalization oaths across the United States today.
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When the last several justices were sworn in, the administration of at least one of the oaths was televised.
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It is no surprise, then, that playwrights frequently use profane language — curses, expletives, oaths and epithets — in their work.
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The "unlawful assembly" occurred as we attempted to push our way into a conference room to retake our oaths.
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They took oaths before the altar of Thailand's most sacred Buddhist icon, the Wat Phra Kaew, or Emerald Buddha.
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We've all taken oaths to put the constitution, put the country ahead of our own interests and well being.
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Until they take their oaths of office in the new roles, they are exposed to the possibility of arrest.
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A formal impeachment investigation, the lawmakers wrote, is warranted to uphold the oaths they took to protect the Constitution.
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The Hong Kong government accused them of making invalid oaths, and a court disqualified them from their posts in 2016.
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In 2016 and 2017 they secured the disbarring of six legislators for disrespecting China by mangling their oaths of loyalty.
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While Law, Yau, Yiu and Leung's oaths were initially accepted by the LegCo president, Yau and Baggio Leung's were not.
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Some convened their own "common law" grand juries and "indicted" officials for ostensibly failing to uphold their oaths of office.
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But local authorities say holding detainees beyond the constitutionally mandated period puts them at risk of violating their constitutional oaths.
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They demanded an apology from Mr. Leung and Ms. Yau, who attributed the discrepancies in their oaths to their accents.
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She said she told him that it was difficult to prosecute traffickers because the victims worried about breaking their oaths.
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The sunbaked, humid conditions in Ashe Stadium left the normally self-contained Stephens uttering oaths as well as spraying groundstrokes.
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" Also within the letter, Trump accused Pelosi of "violating your oaths of office... [and] breaking your allegiance to the Constitution.
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The by-election was triggered because six pro-democracy lawmakers were ousted from public office over invalid oaths of office.
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But democrats lost that power when six lawmakers were ousted for inserting anti-Beijing protests into their oaths of office.
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Likewise, their oaths were declared invalid by the court, and they have been asked to pack up in two weeks.
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Impeachment: The U.S. Senate officially opened the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, and senators took oaths to be impartial jurors.
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With the help of riot police, he and his former vice-president were able to take their oaths of office.
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Months later, two of those legislators were disqualified for amending their oaths of office in a way that Beijing disapproved of.
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Sunday's by-election, and that in March, were triggered when six pro-democracy lawmakers were ousted over invalid oaths of office.
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Mueller has surrounded himself with lawyers who share the "same feeling of responsibility" to uphold their oaths as prosecutors, she said.
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Without oaths, integration classes or other forms of state do-goodery, central European cultures in Britain are melding with local ones.
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In November China's rubber-stamp parliament issued a ruling on how Hong Kong's legislators should take their oaths ("sincerely and solemnly").
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The NPC's ruling says that oaths must be taken "accurately, completely and solemnly" to be valid—no retakes allowed for violators.
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The politicians had been elected as legislators but had been barred from taking their seats for not taking their oaths properly.
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There are various messages showing people ... making oaths in communities saying you cannot vote for a non-Muslim and so on.
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Promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon or sanctity for an atheist.
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John Faso and Chris Collins for "violating their oaths of office" by voting in favor of the American Health Care Act.
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Here is when new and re-elected governors in 22019 states, two territories and one commonwealth take their oaths of office.
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By believing and continuing to believe that only they could save the Union, they betrayed their oaths and lost their way.
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Even so, on Wednesday she and Mr. Leung tried to retake their oaths, unannounced, in a chaotic and aborted legislative session.
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They upheld oaths to the Constitution instead of the president, examined the evidence, and told Richard Nixon that he should resign.
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The young legislators set off the conflict by using a derogatory term for China when they took their oaths of office.
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Associations that support the fiduciary standard, like XY Planning Network, display signed fiduciary oaths for each one of their members online.
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Usually, as with Justice Neil Gorsuch, it is the occasion for the administration of one of the oaths new justices take.
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Several won seats in the Legislative Council in 2016, only to later be removed after they modified their oaths of office.
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Most Republicans in Congress couldn't care less about the president's flagrant abuses of power or their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
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Only a thorough and honest reckoning with the oaths they have taken as senators and as impeachment jurors will do that.
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One could simply not be a lawyer or a priest without agreeing to those oaths, even if one disagrees with them.
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As elected officials, senators also take oaths to serve the American people — not corporations, or some ideology or even the president.
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The reason is one of the more intelligible parts of the Constitution: Article VI, Clause 3, which covers oaths of office.
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R+L=J is confirmed yet again, but now, it looks like Jon may have been conceived under legally binding marital oaths.
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When they protest they don old uniforms, wave Chinese flags and are sometimes seen renewing their oaths of loyalty to the party.
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A court in Hong Kong was already considering the legality of their oaths; China wanted to stop it reaching the wrong decision.
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But this is the first time the series has mentioned blood oaths, and the series doesn't differentiate it from an Unbreakable Vow.
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The lawmakers' cases had gone to court because they went off-script while reading their oaths to Hong Kong's government in September.
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Career executives may have multiple and sometimes conflicting loyalties to their agency, their mission, their profession and to their oaths of office.
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"Oaths have been given," Mr. Edmonds wrote to an informant in one online message in January 2015, according to a criminal complaint.
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The Fox News report notes that many federal oaths include the phrase, but some, including the presidential oath of office, do not.
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Just go to a naturalization ceremony, where eyes well with tears as oaths of allegiance are sworn by newly minted US citizens.
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The government is challenging the actions of the legislature's president, Andrew Leung, to accept, or allow them to re-take, their oaths.
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So stupefying are their exhortations and oaths of fealty, the movie might have been made as much to lull as to agitate.
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" Describing her husband, Zadie remarks that "his finance career required slavish devotion — the sacrifice of one's firstborn, the swearing of blood oaths.
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Lindsey Graham, made clear that they would not uphold the oaths of impartiality taken by senators at the start of the trial.
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But Friday's move by the government seeks to disqualify four lawmakers whose oaths had been accepted, and who are now in office.
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The three highest officeholders in our government are not carrying out their sworn oaths to protect our constitutional system from enemy attacks.
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But Professor Sunstein said that substituting politics for the commands of the founding document would be a violation of lawmakers' constitutional oaths.
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Employees have been asked to come up with their own "oaths," three-word mantras that will inspire them to sell more display ads.
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He does it so poorly, in fact, that his men kill him for it because they believe he's so thoroughly betrayed his oaths.
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HONG KONG'S Legislative Council, or Legco, has descended into chaos over how members should take their oaths of office after elections in September.
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What to watch: In addition to claiming the Sri Lanka attacks, Baghdadi accepted oaths of allegiance from groups in Mali and Burkina Faso.
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The final Senate report, published in May, recommended that Lawal be prosecuted for allegedly flouting procurement rules and breaking his oaths of office.
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Before you know it, your mouse is hovering over the "loyalty oaths" law and your settlement has basically turned into a labor camp.
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This includes measures separating and checking government powers in the hands of "fallen" public officials, mandating oaths of offices, and prohibiting double jeopardy.
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In 2012, Odette, Gilbert and Rebecca finally applied to become United States citizens, and later that year they took their oaths of allegiance.
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The six politicians targeted by Mr. Leung were among more than 10 who inserted political statements into their oaths of office in October.
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USCIS officials have countered that though they have been swamped with benefit requests, they have still processed record numbers of citizenship oaths and applications.
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The 535 members of the 116th Congress are set to take their oaths on Thursday afternoon as the most diverse congressional class in history.
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Their oaths were not accepted and their right to re-take them is being challenged in the local courts by the Hong Kong government.
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While Moh acknowledged that Leung and Yau's oath antics were "juvenile," she believed the duo still deserved a second chance to retake the oaths.
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Htin Kyaw, second right, takes oaths as Myanmar's new president during a swearing-in ceremony at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 30, 2016.
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Some of us had taken blood oaths and participated in scrimmages we are ashamed of — the tragedy of My Lai being one of many.
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Their oaths were not accepted and their right to retake them is being challenged in the local courts by the autonomous Hong Kong government.
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Tillerson's account only highlights the need for cabinet officials who will place their oaths to defend the Constitution above their loyalty to the president.
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The government proceedings seek "to declare their oaths purportedly taken as invalid and their office as now vacant", the government said in the statement.
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Judges have legal training, are bound by ethical oaths, and must account for not only their decisions but also their reasoning in published opinions.
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Nobody in Cersei's inner circle had the same moral courage, even though it's hard to believe they took oaths more seriously than he did.
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Beijing then intervened to reinterpret Hong Kong's Basic Law, retroactively disqualifying six popularly elected politicians over the way in which they took their oaths.
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Whatever the psychological consequences of this life and the oaths of a Mason might be, Didier emerged with a demented ideology all his own.
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In 2016, China's intervention in a court decision resulted in pro-independence lawmakers, including myself, being removed from office for taking our oaths improperly.
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The House has prepared the articles but not yet moved them to the Senate, because it lacks confidence that senators will uphold their oaths.
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One hopes that those to whom we entrust the power of state violence—cops, soldiers, spies—would keep the oaths of a constitutional order.
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But the premise of much of this discussion is that the coordination and comments made by Republicans violate both their oaths and Senate tradition.
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Government lawyers were specifically challenging a decision by the legislature's new president Andrew Leung to allow the pair to re-take their oaths this week.
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Now, as director of USCIS, he is leading the agency in charge of assessing naturalization applications and administering the process, which includes interviews and oaths.
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While taking their oaths last month the pair swore, referred to China in a derogatory way and displayed banners saying "Hong Kong is not China".
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A spokesman for Youngspiration said the refusal to accept its lawmakers' oaths was "illegal" and dismissed claims they had deliberately mispronounced any of the words.
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Daenerys demands that Jon fulfill the oaths Torrhen took, and Jon argues that Aerys' betrayal of the Starks is a valid reason to stand independent.
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It was Reception Day, the moment when new cadets and cadet candidates sign their oaths of enlistment, become active duty soldiers and begin basic training.
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The ruling came after the two young politicians, Sixtus Leung, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25, inserted a derogatory term for China in their oaths.
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Now the focus turns to other elected members of the 70-member council who gave unorthodox readings of their oaths as a form of protest.
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Our culture is good at promises — our leaders take oaths, we say "I do" — and we're good at applying punishments when those promises are broken.
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The courts removed six pro-democracy lawmakers from office in 2016 and 2017, after they altered their oaths of office to protest the Chinese government.
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Claire's oaths as a doctor compel her to help anyone in need, and with a contagious disease, things could have gotten complicated in a hurry.
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Hong Kong courts have removed six lawmakers who altered their oaths of office to protest the influence of China's central government over the semiautonomous city.
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But even before the new members took their oaths of office, then-Senate Majority Leader-elect Mitch McConnell promised never to trigger a government shutdown.
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"I've taken four oaths in my lifetime, two as a law enforcement officer and two now as a member of Congress," she said in December.
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In July, four pro-democracy lawmakers, including Mr. Law, were dismissed from Hong Kong's Legislative Council on the bogus ground that their oaths were improper.
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For me, it is an act of faith—not just in the American constitutional system, but also in those who swore oaths to uphold it.
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New United States citizens participating in naturalization ceremonies around the country have typically received letters from the current president when taking their oaths of allegiance.
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In taking their oaths last month, they substituted a word for China that is widely seen as derogatory, and Ms. Yau added a common obscenity.
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When most people think of the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts, they think of cookies and camping, merit badges and pledging oaths of honor.
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Incoming Defense Minister Lieberman previously pushed for a bill that would force Israelis (including Arabs) to swear loyalty oaths to the government before they could vote.
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So Melisandre brings him back to life, he manages to kill the people who killed him, and he breaks his oaths again, leaving the Night's Watch.
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In an unprecedented intervention, the central authorities ruled that those who deliberately garble their swearing-in oaths must not be allowed to take up their seats.
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The — the loyalty oaths, the boss as the dominant center of everything, it's all about how do you serve the boss, what's in the boss's interests.
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After a series of stormy meetings and disruptions as the pair attempted to retake their oaths and join the proceedings, a measure of calm now prevails.
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It's time for all our leaders — of both parties — to take seriously the oaths they swore to support and defend our Constitution, regardless of their differences.
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A judge could make a narrow ruling that Beijing's interpretation applies only to taking oaths, which candidates, as opposed to officeholders, do not have to do.
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The scare turned conservatives and liberals alike into happy red-hunters, as administrators and professors entered a contest of patriotic one-upmanship: loyalty oaths, hearings, purges.
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The seats of the Catalan separatist leaders will remain empty until they either take their oaths or leave their places to other members of their list.
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Pence's article suggests that this White House seeks to corrupt the current impeachment process by demanding that senators violate their oaths of impartiality for personal gain.
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The Hong Kong government and Beijing want the two representatives, who support independence for the territory, to vacate their seats rather than simply retake the oaths.
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These officials are violating their oaths of office and attempting this coup in broad daylight, hoping we never notice they are setting the Constitution on fire.
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Democrats, on the other hand, will go down in history as brave leaders who did right by their oaths of office, their voters and the Constitution.
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Leung and Yau inserted curse words into their oaths of office and displayed flags bearing the words "Hong Kong is not China" during a ceremony in October.
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The group, called "The Lincoln Project" released an ad seeking to remind Republican senators of their "sworn oaths" to uphold the Constitution ahead of Trump's impeachment trial.
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Legislators critical of the Communist Party's influence in Hong Kong often use gestures or statements to undermine the impact of their mandatory oaths when being sworn in.
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As a result of the NPC's ruling, it is highly unlikely that the High Court will allow Mr Leung and Ms Yau to take their oaths again.
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Its more than 1103 pages include a petition, oaths, photographs and specifications of the machine, and letters of correspondence between the brothers and the US Patent Office.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Four pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong have been disqualified from their posts for failing to take their oaths properly, a court ruled Friday.
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The pair was due to retake their oaths, but Hong Kong government officials sued to prevent them being sworn-in again, arguing they had forgone their opportunity.
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They succeeded, albeit at a price: the courts upheld references to God in pledges, oaths, prayers, and anthems on the ground that they were not actually religious.
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Yau and Leung have told reporters their oaths should not be ruled invalid based on their choice of clothing, and they blamed their pronunciation on their accent.
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They had their swearing-in oaths invalidated in October after they used language deemed derogatory to China and displayed a banner declaring "Hong Kong is not China".
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The mandate, according to the Becket Fund, would require doctors to violate their Hippocratic Oaths by forcing them to perform procedures that emotionally and physically hurt children.
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Should he win, he could join the likes of Grover Cleveland and James Buchanan, two presidents who were not married when they took their oaths of office.
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Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court led a similar mass naturalization the following year, with thousands taking citizenship oaths in simultaneous ceremonies around the country.
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Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30, had their swearing-in oaths invalidated last month over language and a banner that was deemed derogatory to China.
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The witnesses seemed to be striving to uphold their oaths to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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The pair lost an appeal on Wednesday into an earlier Hong Kong court ruling that disqualified them after they insulted China while taking their oaths last month.
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"Longhair" Leung Kwok-hung is one of four pro-democracy lawmakers facing disqualification after the government filed lawsuits this month challenging the validity of their oaths of office.
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China's legislature, the National People's Congress, ruled that legislators in Hong Kong must take their oaths of office "accurately, completely and solemnly", with no retakes allowed for violators.
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Top mainland official Zhang Xiaoming said on Sunday that "it could be complicated to disqualify lawmakers who had finished their oaths," according to the South China Morning Post.
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Reminded of his oaths to protect the tower, he says the war against darkness is over, the forces of light have lost, and the tower's destruction is inevitable.
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These bold House members took their oaths to heart "to support and defend the Constitution ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and their patriotism will not be forgotten.
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Two lawmakers who are advocates of Hong Kong's independence from China -- Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus "Baggio" Leung -- were ousted after swearing and insulting China during their oaths.
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But they put country over party and realized they needed to honor their oaths of office, to protect the Constitution of the United States, regardless of political outcome.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy, the justice Kavanaugh is replacing, will administer the oaths of office to Kavanaugh in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court.
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In 2016, the simple mispronunciation of "China" in lawmaker oaths of offices barred local activists, who unraveled "Hong Kong is not China" banners in protest, from holding office.
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"Officers who violate anyone's rights also violate their oaths of honor, and they tarnish the names of the vast majority of officers, who do incredible work," he said.
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Those lawmakers, Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching, had been scheduled to be sworn in on Wednesday morning after the oaths they took last week were declared invalid.
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We had lawmakers who were democratically elected be disqualified because they did their oaths [of office] in a way to express their discontent of swearing allegiance to China.
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Former FBI Director James Comey suggested in a Washington Post op-ed Wednesday that elected officials should uphold their oaths of office by removing President Trump from office.
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Nadler ruled against motions from three Republican members on issues including administering oaths to witnesses and impeachment inquiry documents, as fireworks continued between Nadler and committee Republicans. Rep.
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Each had modified the oaths as a form of protest against Beijing, though none went as far as Ms. Yau or Mr. Leung in expressing support for independence.
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The clerk ruled their oaths invalid, preventing them from taking office, and the president of the Legislative Council scheduled another session for the pair to be sworn in.
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"Too many trusted medical professionals, like doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, have chosen to violate their oaths and put greed ahead of their patients," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
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The government's writ stated Leung had no power to re-administer the oaths to the pair as, given their actions, they were disqualified from taking office under the law.
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Pro-Hong Kong independence party Youngspiration's Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung were due to retake their oaths of office on Wednesday after their initial attempts were deemed unacceptable.
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A court in Hong Kong ruled that four pro-democracy lawmakers should be expelled from the legislature for failing to take their oaths in a "sincere and solemn" manner.
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At issue was whether Legco president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, who had already invalidated their oaths, had the power to give them a second chance to be sworn in.
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All it takes for FBI executives to earn such golden parachutes is to violate their oaths of office and throw the agency into the vortex of politics and partisanship.
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Trump has directed federal officials to obey orders to undermine the Constitution to the extent that they can get away with it, in violation of their oaths of office.
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Protesters are demanding Hamid's resignation for what they consider blasphemy after parliamentary bills were amended, weakening rules that require lawmakers to reference the Prophet Mohammed when taking their oaths.
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The measure is "controversial" only in the sense that Democrats have chosen to reject the rule of law and abandon their oaths of office as it applies to immigration.
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Nor are they "choosing to defend the rule of law" by advocating Hong Kong independence, which is contrary to China's national unity and territorial integrity, when taking their oaths.
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In 2016 and 2017, Hong Kong courts removed six lawmakers for altering their oaths of office to include phrases of protest that echoed the calls of the Umbrella Movement.
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Two pro-independence politicians elected to Hong Kong's legislature were barred from taking their seats after they changed words in their oaths of office to show anger with Beijing.
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That stems from Beijing's outrage over two newly elected pro-independence lawmakers, who both inserted a term seen as derogatory to China into their oaths of office last month.
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But the real fault must lie with the 52 senators who, out of ideological sympathy or personal advantage, placed those interests above their oaths as senators and as impartial jurors.
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Council President Andrew Leung adjourned the meeting after 15 minutes, meaning the two lawmakers will have to wait until next week, at the earliest, to retake their oaths of office.
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The first was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, clad in plaid scarves, who performed a rendition of "America the Beautiful" in between Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's oaths of office.
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On Wednesday, some other pro-democratic lawmakers shouted slogans and held up props, including a yellow umbrella, a symbol of 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations, but nevertheless had their oaths administered.
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Of course, individual electors would have to make their own judgments as to whether the situation rose to the level of an emergency that would justify their breaking their oaths.
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Other Americans were not required to take oaths of loyalty until the 2628s, when thousands lost their jobs because they could not swear truthfully that they never supported radical organizations.
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" The Basic Law says little about oaths, only that officials must swear allegiance "in accordance with law" to the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
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But membership has been dwindling in recent decades, as shifting American attitudes pulled many families away from the God-and-country oaths and outdoorsy survival skills that the Scouts offered.
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What happens when our devotion to our oaths, to our values, to our love of country, to part from the momentary passion from a large number of people back home?
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Since Roberts and the 100 senators took their oaths for the trial, he has sat, wearing his customary black robe, at a large desk above the rows of senators' desks.
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On Thursday we may learn from James Comey's Senate testimony whether Trump will have to pay a political price of his own for demanding personal loyalty oaths from nonpolitical appointees.
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By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy.
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"Kill Bill"-style, the fiery Democratic women keep coming, driven by vengeance against the wicked man in the White House with the history of hurting women and swearing false oaths.
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In November, voters elected two openly pro-independence lawmakers, but the central government prevented them from taking their seats after they altered their oaths of office to snub China. Mrs.
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As we in law enforcement swear oaths to serve and protect everyone in our community, so a president needs to show himself as president of all the people all the time.
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In November, Beijing intervened in a dispute over two pro-independence lawmakers' oaths of office, using a rarely invoked power to reinterpret the city's constitution and kick them out of parliament.
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Shortly after the vote Saturday, Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice, taking two oaths — a constitutional oath administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, and a judicial oath administered by Kennedy.
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SO ANGRY were senior members of the Chinese Communist Party about the China-baiting manner in which two legislators in Hong Kong took their oaths of office that "their lungs exploded".
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In 2016, it intervened in a Hong Kong court decision that removed pro-independence lawmakers from office for taking their oaths improperly – the action that led to the March by-elections.
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Law, the last lawmaker to be sworn in, then refused to leave the podium, demanding that Chen explain his reasons for refusing to accept the oaths of Leung, Yiu and Yau.
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Hong Kong (CNN)There were chaotic scenes in Hong Kong's parliament Wednesday as pro-Beijing lawmakers staged a walkout to block two controversial new members from taking their oaths of office.
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In response to their action, the head of the city's Legislative Council Secretariat said he had no authority to administer the oaths to Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30.
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"Too many trusted medical professionals like doctors, nurses and pharmacists have chosen to violate their oaths and put greed ahead of their patients," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in the statement.
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Washington (CNN)It's hard to imagine President Donald Trump, a very rich man, envying the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of nuns who take oaths of chastity and poverty.
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Meanwhile, as indictments pile up and hearings continue, we've seen many targets of the president's vitriol stand before Congress, raise their right hands, swear their oaths, and tell what they know.
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Four of the five opposition candidates who won elections for governor in Venezuela took their oaths before the constituent assembly, a sham parliament controlled by President Nicolás Maduro's United Socialist Party.
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The clerk argued in the suit that the new law forces county officials to violate their oaths of office by giving driver's licenses to people who have broken U.S. immigration laws.
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They swore and insulted China and displayed flags with the words "Hong Kong is not China," leading to their oaths being rejected, along with several other lawmakers who flubbed their vows.
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Republicans had been loathe to move on from attempts to get rid of Obamacare because they felt trapped by the oaths they had sworn to their base to do just that.
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But like all oaths sworn by the broken-hearted, it was unknowingly cast in bad faith, leaving generation after generation of Owens women falling for men only to be swiftly widowed.
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Hong Kong's High Court disqualified six pro-democracy candidates who won seats in the Legislative Council in 2016 after they inserted anti-China snubs or otherwise modified their oaths of office.
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But I will not accept that 51 Republican senators would really ignore not just their constitutional oaths, but the will of the 75% of Americans who want to hear from witnesses.
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The much more likely explanation is that they felt they could get away with it, and stopping Trump was more important than fulfilling their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution.
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But that's why Mitt Romney's speech carried the force of revelation for many -- a reminder that principles matter more than party loyalty and oaths "to do impartial justice" should be upheld.
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At the University of California, Berkeley, the state's flagship school, a recent investigation found that these don't-call-them-loyalty-oaths are being used to cull job applications across multiple departments.
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" Kardashian, 35, seemingly alluded to the lie detector test the following day when she posted a cryptic quote on her Instagram Story that read, "Liars are always ready to take oaths.
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She said impeachment was not something Democrats wanted to do, but rather something they were compelled to do because of the oaths they swore to the Constitution and the president's actions.
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"Officers who violate anyone's rights also violate their oaths of honor, and they tarnish the names of the vast majority of officers, who do incredible work," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Yau and Leung, both members of the Youngspiration group, caused a stir when they altered the words of the pledge to include derogatory terms toward China when taking their oaths in September.
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A diverse set of candidates won big in states across the country last November after people voted at record levels for a midterm election, and today they take their oaths of office.
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Its latest constitutional pronouncement, in November, aimed to prevent two localist legislators from taking up their posts on the ground that they had deliberately garbled their oaths when they were sworn in.
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DEVIN NUNES, CHAIR OF HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: -- is a total and complete violation of their oaths of office to defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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Just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road that brought us Cambridge Analytica and the Pizzagate conspiracy was paved with optimism and oaths to not be evil.
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But he said his office and New York police chiefs, including current Commissioner William Bratton and former Commissioner Ray Kelly, had brought charges against officers who violated their oaths in the past.
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She swears sacred oaths that she would rather die than give up her meadow; she won't give up a square foot of it, no, not so much as a blade of grass.
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"By using their authority and power to prey upon and abuse female inmates in their care, these defendants violated their oaths of public service as well as numerous criminal laws," said Rohde.
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Oaths of allegiance signed by Revolutionary War soldiers, witnessed by General Washington, documents and artifacts related to the civil war, segregation, women's suffrage and the civil rights movement were also on hand.
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Sixtus Leung, 30, known as Baggio, and Yau Wai-ching, 25, set off the conflict by using what some consider a derogatory term for China when they took their oaths of office.
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The fear of these oaths and their supposed consequences is one big reason women remain enslaved in sex work and debt bondage; they often rebuff attempts by activists to set them free.
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"I will treat this process with the gravity and impartiality that our oaths demand and will not comment on the proceedings or facts until the trial concludes," Sinema said in a statement.
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Let me be clear: It's extremely unusual for veterans to break their oaths of induction by seeking to become domestic terrorists and therefore enemies of the very democracy they swore to protect.
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Hong Kong's government, loyal to Beijing, has asked the court system in the city, a former British colony, to review whether the council can let the lawmakers retake their oaths of office.
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Or the more formal oaths required by one's profession — lawyers and priests must remain silent even if their client/penitent told them they committed a murder for which another is serving time.
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Puigdemont and Comin also won European Parliament seats in May but fears of returning to Spain, where they face arrest warrants, prevented them from taking their oaths and collecting their MEP credentials.
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"By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American democracy," he wrote.
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"By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American democracy," he said.
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God, arrest ye scary gentlemen The people you dismayRemember oaths of officeOn this Impeachment DayPlease save us allFrom Donald's lies,Abuses everydayO Congress impeach theOrange menace today O Congress impeachHis ass today!
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The Hong Kong government has asked the courts to disqualify the two on the basis that they declined to take their oaths of office and do not comply with the Basic Law.
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It is likely that the issue will be hotly debated in March during campaigning for four Legco seats left vacant by the recent expulsion of pro-democracy legislators for deliberately mangling their oaths.
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" The ruling against them came after the dramatic intervention of Beijing, which employed a rarely-used power to re-interpret Hong Kong's Constitution and rule that oaths must be taken "sincerely and solemnly.
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The government has asked the courts to review a decision by the legislature's president allowing pro-independence lawmakers Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Baggio Leung, 30, to re-take their oaths of office.
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"Dickinson's requirement is an egregious violation of the First Amendment, reminiscent of McCarthy-era loyalty oaths requiring Americans to disavow membership in the Communist Party and other forms of 'subversive' activity," Segura added.
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More than 22015 members of the National Constituent Assembly, the new legislative panel with powers to rewrite the Venezuela Constitution after an election Sunday at Maduro's behest, took oaths of office Friday afternoon.
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Some experts note that Beijing has lowered the threshold for such action after its preemptive interpretation of the Basic Law last year, which effectively disqualified lawmakers who did not take their oaths properly.
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Unlike Ms. Yau and Mr. Leung, the others either had their original oaths accepted or were given the chance to retake them, raising the legal bar on any attempt to have them removed.
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The judge said he would have ruled against them even without Beijing's reinterpretation of the city's Basic Law, adding to concerns for other lawmakers who altered their oaths as a form of protest.
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" All were characterized by "the significance of secrets — usually in the form of passwords, handshakes, signs, rituals and the esoteric knowledge revealed in them — and the taking of oaths to preserve the secrets.
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"The only remaining question is whether the members of the Senate will accept and carry out the responsibility placed on them by the Framers of our Constitution and their constitutional Oaths," it adds.
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Nadler told Buck that he would administer oaths to the upcoming witnesses and had not done so for Castor and Berke because they were "staff" who were present to give opening statements. Rep.
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Mr. Leung was accused last week of waging a "coup" as he tried to unseat four elected pro-democracy legislators with a legal challenge over the way they took their oaths of office.
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Once a month the Los Angeles Convention Center finds its inner Ellis Island, is declared a Federal Court, and hosts the administration of some 10,000 oaths of allegiance, thereby creating America's newest citizens.
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In July, Hong Kong's high court expelled four pro-independence lawmakers from the city's legislature after invalidating their oaths of office, in what was seen as the clearest indication of direct intervention by Beijing.
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According to the book's Indiegogo page, "Seventy-five percent of modern US presidents, senators, justices, and executives have taken arcane oaths of chivalry and allegiance" — a sobering statistic given the nature of Moisey's photographs.
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In retaliation, the city's Beijing-backed Chief Executive C.Y. Leung requested the courts oust the duo from LegCo, and a judicial review began on Thursday to decide whether the pair can retake the oaths.
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Last year China's rubber-stamp parliament issued a ruling aimed at affecting the outcome of a court case under way in Hong Kong about whether two pro-democracy legislators had taken their oaths properly.
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On Tuesday, governors celebrate the new year with swearing-in ceremonies in Rhode Island, New York, New Mexico and Michigan, and others will take their oaths of office in the coming days and weeks.
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The group is demanding the resignation of the country's law minister for what it considers blasphemy after amended parliamentary bills weakened rules that require lawmakers to reference the Prophet Mohammed when taking their oaths.
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Judges must decide how to interpret the ruling from Beijing in each of the eight cases and determine whether the ruling, which came after the oaths had already been accepted, can be applied retroactively.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers have lost two seats in the territory's legislature, another setback for the bloc whose members were previously disqualified after modifying their oaths of office to defy Beijing.
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She was not making a defiant secular stand, but merely reading from the same committee decorum rule book that her Republican predecessor, Representative Gregg Harper of Mississippi, had used to administer oaths, videos show.
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She issued a statement at the outset of the trial saying she would "treat this process with the gravity and impartiality that our oaths demand" and has refused to talk to reporters ever since.
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She seeks out her biological family, bristles against arbitrary social mores, makes some new friends and a few new enemies, marvels at the romance of it all, weeps righteous tears and swears valiant oaths.
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The pro-democracy lawmakers were dismissed from the Hong Kong Legislative Council because they had used unacceptable words or even dubious tones in taking oaths of office that require declarations of loyalty to China.
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The four Legislative Council seats were once held by Yiu and other pro-democracy lawmakers who were ousted from public office over invalid oaths of office in a move critics said was politically motivated.
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Recently Mr Leung has again proved his loyalty to the party by trying to get several pro-democracy lawmakers disbarred from the Legislative Council, or Legco, on the grounds that they took their oaths improperly.
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The pair, who represent a new breed of more radical activists moving into the political mainstream, had their swearing-in oaths invalidated last month over language and a banner that was deemed derogatory to China.
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The government is teetering in Linzian fashion, the country at intolerable risk, because Republicans despise the wishes of the larger half of the country more than they respect the constitution and their oaths to it.
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The protesters demanded the resignation of Pakistan's Law Minister, Zahid Hamid, for what they considered blasphemy after parliamentary bills were amended, weakening rules that require lawmakers to reference the Prophet Mohammed when taking their oaths.
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That may give the duo a chance to retake their oaths, though he said it would take a brave judge to make a ruling that could invite a new, even more specific, interpretation from Beijing.
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The local judiciary has become compliant: In a protracted controversy over the oaths of office taken by legislators-elect, the High Court endorsed Beijing's view and disqualified members of the opposition from taking their seats.
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They believed the Senate was more likely to be impartial and independent, and less influenced by political passion, with senators less likely to betray their oaths and more certain to vote on facts and evidence.
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Since November, Hong Kong courts have removed six pro-democracy lawmakers over issues with their oaths of office, depriving their allies of enough votes to maintain a veto against the Legislative Council's pro-Beijing camp.
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A refusal to prosecute would not only undermine of the rule of law inside a distrusted agency tasked with enforcing it, but would cut against the hard work of FBI agents truly upholding their oaths.
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In retaliation, the city's Beijing-backed Chief Executive C.Y. Leung requested the courts to oust the duo from LegCo, and a judicial review that began Thursday will now decide whether the pair can retake the oaths.
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In 2016, the pan-democratic camp won 29 seats - more than enough to wield veto power - but then lost six when these candidates were disqualified after China's national parliament ruled their oaths of office were invalid.
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Dueling oaths: Both President Ashraf Ghani and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, took the oath of office as the president of Afghanistan, plunging the country into a new crisis during sensitive peace talks with the Taliban.
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"By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy," the president said in his letter.
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The polls were triggered when six pro-democracy lawmakers were ousted from public office over invalid oaths of office in a move that critics said was politically motivated - a move that cost them their veto power.
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In 2014, the Giudices, both 43, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud — conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud by concealment of assets, bankruptcy fraud by false oaths, and bankruptcy fraud by false declarations.
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To judge from Beijing-controlled newspapers in Hong Kong, the response will be clear: the two will not be given another chance to take their oaths, and will be disbarred from the Legislative Council, known as Legco.
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Both warned that if court battles ensue between disbarred legislators and the government, and the courts cannot decide whether their oaths meet the requirements of Hong Kong's constitution, then China's parliament, the National People's Congress, will adjudicate.
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Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching promptly vowed to appeal all the way to the city's top court if necessary after the judge decided they had "declined" to take their oaths "faithfully and truthfully".
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Stressing the need to maintain national security and to keep pro-independence voices out of Hong Kong's legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ruled that lawmakers must take their oaths "sincerely", "accurately" and "completely".
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Rather than use officers of law enforcement — men and women who swear oaths to uphold our Constitution — Gardner paid a $85033,000 retainer and $250 per hour to out-of-state private investigators to look into the governor.
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Whether the North-South denuclearization agreement in 1992, the Agreed Framework in 1994, the Pyongyang Declaration in 2002, or the Six-Party Talks agreement in 85033, Pyongyang has consistently violated its oaths and betrayed its negotiating partners.
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"This thing is expansive," Mr. Tien said in a telephone interview, adding that Beijing's allies in Hong Kong could ask courts to rule on whether these lawmakers were sincere in swearing allegiance or had violated their oaths.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Leaders of Chinese-ruled Hong Kong widened their legal fight against the city's fledgling independence movement on Friday, targeting four more lawmakers over oaths taken at a Legislative Council swearing-in ceremony in October.
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"Instead of upholding their oaths, these defendants allegedly abused the power of the Suffolk County district attorney's office," Bridget M. Rohde, the acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
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The numerous contrary statements and collaborative efforts they made with Trump, however, have disqualified them as impartial jurors in the Senate trial and condemned them before everyone who believes that oaths are not merely binding but sacred.
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Despite their oaths to be impartial jurors, McConnell and Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamRestlessness, light rule-breaking and milk spotted on Senate floor as impeachment trial rolls on Senator-jurors who may not be impartial?
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In a presidency that demands loyalty oaths from public servants and the personal allegiance of officials whose roles are meant to be independent from the White House, it's fair to say we all know what happens next: Nothing.
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Last month, Sixtus Leung Chung-hang, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25, had pledged allegiance to "the Hong Kong nation" and held a banner saying "Hong Kong is not China" during their oaths, ignoring the pledge's original wording.
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Besides the controversial jailing of several prominent young activists for unlawful assembly over the massive 2014 "Occupy" pro-democracy protests, authorities also ejected six pro-democracy lawmakers from the legislature for failing to take proper oaths of office.
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There's only so far they can go in the organizational charts of any given office before they hit the rock stratum of the civil service — people whose oaths and organizational accountability are both independent of the political class.
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My aim is simply to insist that Captain Smith is right to believe that the federal courts provide the proper forum for relieving him, and other conscientious soldiers, of the terrible dilemma posed by their oaths of office.
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The decision also says lawmakers will be held liable if they violate their oaths, but it provides no guidance on who has the power to determine whether a lawmaker is in breach or what the punishment should be.
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Besides the controversial jailing of several prominent young activists for unlawful assembly over the 2014 Occupy pro-democracy protests, the authorities also ejected six pro-democracy lawmakers from the legislature for failing to take proper oaths of office.
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The big picture: Comey questioned whether members of Congress would be upholding their oaths if they do not take action against Trump for allegedly withholding military aid to Ukraine to pressure its government to investigate his political rivals.
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But some of the hallmarks of the Bloods in years past, though always loosely followed, are falling away: paying homage to so-called original gangsters in prison, reciting oaths and rules, deferring to leaders in matters of violence.
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He reveals the widespread resistance among the 120,000 Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps, and how Tule Lake became a seething repository for those who fought back, refusing to sign loyalty oaths or serve in the American military.
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The three other legislators who were unseated, Leung Kwok-hung, Lau Siu-lai and Edward Yiu, had delivered their oaths with various displays of defiance, including by reading extremely slowly, inserting words calling for democracy and displaying props.
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Ultimately, what began as a disgrace for the House turned into one of the finest moments for the Senate when those seven Republicans upheld their oaths and decided to cross the aisle and acquit a president they despised.
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That is why Democrats are less interested in how this will play out politically for them than in doing the right thing by the Constitution, by the voters, by their oaths of office and by their collective conscience.
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It's long past time for Trump, Ryan and McConnell to stop ignoring the oaths they swore and to start protecting the country against the open attack by Vladimir Putin and his cronies on our constitutional system of government.
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In a 22011 book called "On the Witness Stand," he argued that, because people could not know when their memories had deceived them, the legal system's safeguards against lying—oaths, penalties for perjury, and so on—were ineffective.
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When news of Ned Stark's death reaches the North, Jon immediately tries to break his oaths and betray his sworn brothers, until Lord commander Mormont convinces him that it's more important to stick around and fight the White Walkers.
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"Apart from the case in court ... there is a high possibility that other things might be triggered by their oaths and their words and actions afterwards," the chief executive said, explaining why he had postponed a trip to Beijing.
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The detainee, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, is a Yemeni who made a propaganda video for Al Qaeda about the bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000 and helped administer loyalty oaths and drafted martyrdom wills for several Sept.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's high court on Friday expelled four opposition lawmakers from the city's legislature after it invalidated their oaths of office, a ruling that undermines the influence of the opposition in favor of pro-China legislators.
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"At home, a loving father and husband, but on the street, a hard-core guy who never had regrets, never would admit to any crime, never give anybody up, never violate his Mafia oaths — a mobster all the way."
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Zalun has been registering voters and conducting exit polls around Chinatown for the past nine months, and the courthouse was a potential jackpot: some hundred and fifty immigrants from dozens of countries take their naturalization oaths there every Friday.
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Justice Abdue Ghanee Mohamed took oaths of office as a new Supreme Court justice replacing Ali Hameed, who was also removed from his positions last week after the High Court upheld lower court convictions against Hameed for obstruction of justice.
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A total of five lawmakers had their original oaths invalidated last month, including Edward Yiu Chung-yim, who added the phrase "for democracy and for Hong Kong's sustainable development" and Lau Siu-lai, who first read the pledge in slow motion.
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Señora Gaeta was also well liked because it was exciting to hear her talk: she swore the most powerful and unusual oaths they'd ever heard, really unrepeatable stuff , and all in a sweetly quivering voice, like the song of a harp.
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All four used their oaths of office to protest attempts by Beijing to exert more control over internal affairs in Hong Kong, which has been an increasing concern of citizens in the city since the Chinese took control 20 years ago.
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The answer is we are governed by the Constitution, not by the opinions of the Supreme Court, and members of Congress (and the Executive) take their own oaths to uphold the Constitution and have independent obligations to interpret their constitutional authority.
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Beijing's interpretation, issued on Monday by a committee in the National People's Congress, specifies that office holders in Hong Kong have to "sincerely and solemnly" take loyalty oaths or be forced to vacate their posts, with no chance for a redo.
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HONG KONG — The number of pro-democracy lawmakers elected to Hong Kong's Legislative Council who may lose their seats has grown to 10, after a court was asked to rule whether eight people did not make proper oaths of office.
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Part of your job, especially as the leader of the office, is to figure out new and lawful ways to keep people safe and to give people their money back and to hold people who violated their oaths of office accountable.
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Mike JohnsonJames (Mike) Michael JohnsonTop Democrat holds moment of silence for Cummings at hearing House Democrat calls it 'unconstitutional' to cite God in hearing oaths Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess MORE (La.), the top Republican on the subcommittee.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government drastically escalated a dispute over lawmakers' oaths of office on Friday, asking a court to disqualify four additional legislators, after an extraordinary intervention last month by Beijing led to the removal of two pro-independence politicians.
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Hong Kong's High Court expelled the four from the 70-member legislature in July after judging their oaths of office void for various reasons including speaking too slowly, adding extra words, or using a tone of voice suggesting disrespect towards China.
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The two, who represent a new breed of more radical activists moving into the political mainstream, had their swearing-in oaths invalidated last October after they used language deemed derogatory to China and displayed a banner declaring "Hong Kong is not China".
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Two pro-independence lawmakers who were elected never managed to take their seats however, having been ejected by the courts for failing to take their oaths of office properly after they staged a curse word-filled protest during the swearing-in process.
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Oaths are made and broken in the world of Game of Thrones, but the constant promise to its women is that they will always, no matter what, be responding to the shame, the threat, the fallout of sexual violence and male dominance.
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The battle going on in Hong Kong's courts is not a dry legal issue about whether two young lawmakers took their oaths properly and should therefore be permitted to take their seats in the Legislative Council ("Nipped in the bud", November 22006th).
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Hong Kong began a judicial review on Thursday to decide whether the pair can retake their oaths, but China's decision on Monday will now override the local court, with the territory's Chief Executive CY Leung declaring that he would "fully implement" China's interpretation.
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The judge, adopting a common law approach to the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance, said the localist pair "did not truthfully and faithfully intend to commit themselves" to the oath, as they "objectively clearly" did not recognise the principle of "one country, two systems".
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You might feel like telling your lover that they can either come over and spend a hot, passionate evening with you, sharing secrets and making blood oaths to each other—or they can fuck off and never, ever talk to you again.
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In November China's rubber-stamp parliament took a sledgehammer to Hong Kong's legal independence when it sought to sway a court case about whether two pro-democracy legislators should be disbarred for failing to take their oaths of loyalty to Communist China properly.
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"The awards for reporting violent terrorists and religious extremists establishing ties, or inciting or swearing oaths of holy war, or clues on the organization of illegal cross-border entry and exit are 3 million yuan to 2 million yuan," the newspaper said.
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Oathgate But by late 2016, the sense of hope among the pro-democracy movement had begun to sour as the Hong Kong government moved to disqualify two pro-independence lawmakers who staged an anti-China protest while taking their oaths of office.
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Instead of honoring their oaths to uphold the laws of the United States, these individuals and their minions chose to ignore the laws with which they had political or philosophical differences, whether those laws concerned immigration, national security, or drug or weapons crimes.
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Their success, however, was short-lived: Law was one of several lawmakers disqualified from office by Hong Kong courts after Beijing enacted a rarely-used power to "reinterpret" the city's constitution, putting more stringent requirements on how legislators took their oaths of office.
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Rather than say "China" in their oaths, they said "Chee-na," a term that many find offensive, associating it with its use by Japan during its occupation of China during World War II. Ms. Yau also added an expletive to her oath.
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" Treading carefully, Wray tiptoed around the question, saying simply: "Well, I can assure the American people that the men and women of the FBI, starting from the director, all the way on down, are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs.
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Up and down the Atlantic coast, in every colony, county, town and hamlet, the American resistance movement seized control of the local institutions of governance, requiring oaths of allegiance from all residents, forcing all reluctant revolutionaries to convert and all loyalists to leave.
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Mr. Law, once elected as the youngest-ever member in the city's legislature, was disqualified from office by a Hong Kong court that ruled he and several other lawmakers had inserted anti-China snubs into their oaths of office and rendered them invalid.
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"I intend during the trial to be respectful of the senators, to operate from the presumption that they do take their oaths seriously, but also with the knowledge that Americans are watching, that they're going to demand a fair trial," Schiff said.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened debate in the House on Wednesday on the articles of impeachment, declaring that lawmakers are "custodians of the Constitution" and urging her colleagues to honor their oaths by charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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In the Senate, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, indicated that senators would be ready to receive the charges on Wednesday and take sworn oaths to render "impartial justice" in the trial shortly thereafter, if not the following day.
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In November, the Chinese government took the extraordinary step of blocking Sixtus Leung, known as Baggio, and Yau Wai-ching, advocates for an independent Hong Kong, from assuming office as legislators, ostensibly because they inserted anti-China snubs into their oaths of office.
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All the talk of loyalty oaths and "flipping" coming out of the West Wing have led many, including James Comey, the former F.B.I. director who helped bring down the mob, to conclude that the place is being run like the Ravenite Social Club.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened debate in the House on Wednesday on the articles of impeachment, declaring that lawmakers are "custodians of the Constitution" and urging her colleagues to honor their oaths by charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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The local government's legal move had already riled pro-democracy politicians in the territory, who note that legislators are often given another chance to swear in (playing with the wording of oaths on the first attempt is something of a tradition among feistier lawmakers).
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Wyoming How to register: To send in the form by mail you have to fill it out in front of a notary "or person authorized to administer oaths," show ID to a notary or registry agent and get him or her to sign the form.
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In a just world of transparent government and officials abiding by the law as much as average citizens, there would be consequences for those who abused their positions or behaved contrary to the oaths they took when they became law enforcement officers or civil servants.
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Heckling Muslims by invoking Lord Ram's name has gained prominence since the seating of the new Parliament last week, when followers of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., of Prime Minister Narendra Modi chanted "Hail Lord Ram" as Muslim members took their oaths.
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"By using their authority and power to prey upon and abuse female inmates in their care, these defendants violated their oaths of public service as well as numerous criminal laws," the acting United States attorney in Brooklyn, Bridget M. Rohde, said in a statement.
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With the help of a constitutional ruling by China's national parliament, it has supported recent efforts by Hong Kong's government to get several independence-leaning and other pro-democracy lawmakers disbarred from the Legislative Council, or Legco, on the grounds that they took their oaths improperly.
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But despite his long track record of provocative statements, and key role in extremist networks, Choudary managed to stay just on the right side of British law — until 2014, when he and an associate recorded oaths pledging allegiance to ISIS which were circulated on social media.
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Without naming them, he criticized Yau Wai-ching, 25, and Sixtus Leung, 30, who were barred from taking their seats as the city's first openly separatist legislators after they declared allegiance to a "Hong Kong nation" and inserted anti-China snubs into their oaths of office.
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Aggressively atmospheric opener "Tower of False Cleansing" gnashes away in an ice-cold mid-215s black metal furor, while "Morbid Oaths Fall From Wicked Tongues" is a mesmerizing dirge that snaps to attention midway through, charging headlong into discordant, howling chaos with a beautifully clean finish.
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"Vikings" isn't just a diet "Game of Thrones," but if you're craving swords and oaths and gnarly beards and creepy birds and blond ladies being manipulated and everyone being coated in a permanent layer of sad mud and people constantly talking about their fathers and and and … .
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I've watched them fearlessly tending to the rule of law, enforcing the promises of our Constitution and living out daily their judicial oaths to administer justice equally to rich and poor alike, following the law as they find it and without respect to their personal political beliefs.
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Ian Paisley, who had founded the Democratic Unionist Party and had long stood for continued Ulster association with Britain, and Mr. McGuinness, who had fought for Ulster's incorporation into a united Ireland, took oaths as the leader and deputy leader, respectively, of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government.
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I researched lists of minced oaths used in movies, TV shows, comics, cartoons, and books; watched and listened to clips of cartoons of Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and others; and Googled scripts from several television show episodes to verify the spelling of the curse word(s).
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On Wednesday, two pro-independence politicians, Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung, and three of their assistants were charged over their attempt to enter Hong Kong's legislative chamber after it refused to swear them in because they inserted anti-China snubs into their oaths of office.
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Though it was nearly lost among all the other vows and oaths Donald Trump uttered at his Tuesday night rally in Phoenix, the president reaffirmed one of his most controversial campaign promises when he said, again, that he wanted to kill the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Vindman was the latest example of a career bureaucrat, foreign service official or military officer testifying before the committees investigating impeachment and showing loyalty to their oaths of office and personal definitions of US national interests rather than a President whose efforts to block the investigation have been frustrated.
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This week, a new session of Hong Kong's legislative council was sworn in, amid gestures of defiance from a new crop of young lawmakers, several of which had their oaths of allegiance rejected after inserting curse words and displaying a flag with the slogan "Hong Kong is not China."
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Now that senators have stepped forward to force a vote on the U.S. role in Yemen, members of Congress are faced with an obvious question: how can they uphold their oaths to the Constitution and to the American people without supporting an end to unauthorized military operations in Yemen?
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As a state assemblyman from the West Side of Manhattan from 1957 to 693, he introduced legislation that resulted in the establishment of a state arts council; and his opposition to the annual renewal of a bill requiring Cold War loyalty oaths from state employees led to its expiration.
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Even when a polity is at its lowest — as this town was sometime in 1857 when "an 8-year-old boy was seen crawling along the gutter on hands and knees, dead drunk, mouthing oaths and obscenities" — even when it looks impossible to undo the damage, rehabilitation is possible.
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In an extraordinary move in November, Beijing intervened in a Hong Kong court case to block the seating of two politicians in the legislature after they pledged allegiance to the "Hong Kong nation" during their swearing-in ceremony and inserted an anti-China snub into their oaths of office.
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But in November, Beijing took the extraordinary step of intervening in a Hong Kong court case to prevent them from taking their seats, after they pledged allegiance to the "Hong Kong nation" during their swearing-in ceremony and inserted an anti-China snub into their oaths of office.
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"Because of our respect for our oaths of office and our personal experiences carrying out the Department's mission, we are disturbed by the President's appointment of Matthew Whitaker to serve as Acting Attorney General," the former officials wrote in the signed statement, which was first published by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.
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Democrats voted to impeach President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 85033 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE to ensure that they honored their oaths of office and their commitment to uphold the Constitution.
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HONG KONG — A court in Hong Kong ruled on Tuesday that two pro-independence politicians who inserted an anti-China snub into their oaths of office could not take their seats in the city's legislature, effectively ending a case in which Beijing had taken extraordinary steps to influence politics in Hong Kong.
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On Wednesday, according to filings made to Hong Kong's High Court, a member of a taxi driver's association applied for a judicial review concerning the Legislative Council's decision to accept the oaths from six of the eight lawmakers, and to let the two others retake theirs after their first try was rejected.
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If hyper-partisan polarization is enough to make senators forget their oaths and even their own power as a co-equal branch of government, they will be setting a dangerous precedent that takes aim at the heart of our democracy at a time when autocracies are on the rise around the world.
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In a sign of how seriously it views the situation with the lawmakers, China is taking the extraordinary step of interpreting a clause in the Basic Law in such a way that is expected to make it impossible for Ms. Yau and Mr. Leung to retake their oaths and formally assume office.
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Although there is no Constitutional provision or federal law that requires electors to vote a certain way, 26 states and the District of Columbia "bind" electors to cast their electoral votes for the candidate who won the popular vote in the state, and enforce that through a number of methods including oaths and fines.
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On Wednesday, two of 70 newly elected legislators, 25-year-old Yau Wai-ching and 30-year-old Baggio Leung, pledged their allegiance to a "Hong Kong nation" and displayed a "Hong Kong is not China" banner while they took their oaths of office, which were later ruled as invalid by the legislature's head clerk.
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"I can assure the American people that the men and women of the FBI, starting from the director, all the way on down, are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs," Wray said, standing feet away from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who on Wednesday claimed "corruption and dishonesty" within the FBI.
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Republicans have been trampling democratic norms for a long time — Watergate, Iran-contra, the Bill Clinton impeachment, voter suppression — but the decision taken on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration to oppose him on everything and anything, regardless of substance, was a blatant violation of the oaths of office taken by those elected officials.
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These are men who violated their oaths of allegiance to the United States, who led a titanic and bloody rebellion in order to preserve the enslavement of their fellow human beings and whose actions resulted in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 souls — not to mention an unimaginable number of wounded and permanently disabled.
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" He added, "This frivolous lawsuit, which was leaked to journalists in Washington before it was even served, is nothing more than an act of desperation by the same people who failed to follow basic rules and even swore false oaths in their attempt to cause, in their own words, chaos at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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U.S. to expand military presence in Asia-Pacific but Trump 'unlikely to chart dramatic new course'Hong Kong waiter halves list of lawmakers he wants disqualified over alleged faulty oaths APL, the company hired by the Singapore Armed Forces to transport the military vehicles, said in a statement it was cooperating with Hong Kong authorities and was working with stakeholders.
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What makes Crutcher's killing all the more disturbing is that he was not under suspicion for having committed a crime; rather, his car was broken down and the very officers who swear oaths and get paid to "protect and serve," which often includes rendering assistance drivers in distress, chose to treat him like a criminal and kill him instead.
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Those calls have been drowned out somewhat by more radical politicians arguing for full independence from China, including Sixtus "Baggio" Leung and Yau Wai-ching, who were expelled from LegCo last month after a court ruled their oaths of office, in which they cursed and displayed a banner reading "Hong Kong is not China," were invalid.
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Yet Justice Thomas Au, who made the ruling, said that he would have made the same decision even without Beijing's extraordinary intervention, and that the two had violated an existing Hong Kong law on oaths and declarations and a provision of the Basic Law, according to a 10-page summary of the decision handed out to reporters.
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Obeah men, the spiritual leaders of the Coromantee, who carried out religious ceremonies not unlike those of Santería and vodou, had encouraged the rebels, and now administered oaths to new recruits, drawing blood from every rebel, mixing it with gunpowder and grave dirt, and distributing the mixture to each to drink, promising that it would protect them.
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The Democratic-led House is expected to pass two articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for his dealings with Ukraine "By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy," Trump wrote.
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In January, Republicans introduced a bill — the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 — backing legislation adopted in more than two dozen states that denies state contracts to or bars state investments with American individuals or groups who support boycotts of Israel or who refuse to sign oaths affirming they will not boycott Israel.
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The pro-Beijing government of Hong Kong filed papers in court arguing that the four lawmakers were ineligible to serve in the 70-member Legislative Council because they had failed to deliver their oaths as set out in Hong Kong law that was strictly prescribed by the National People's Congress in China early last month, the government said in a statement.
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While Friday's request for a so-called judicial review is from the Hong Kong government, it comes after a senior mainland official said last month that the new interpretation by Beijing meant that as many as 15 Hong Kong lawmakers could be disqualified, while another detailed what kind of oaths would be considered "insincere," the South China Morning Post reported.
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"Be prepared to report future abuses to the Inspector General, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and Congress; to refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with their oaths of office; to withdraw from cases that involve such directives or other misconduct; and, if necessary, to resign and report publicly ... to the American people the reasons for their resignation," the statement read.
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A Kentucky-born law professor went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years 85033 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump MORE (R-Ky.) in an op-ed Friday, saying that the senator broke two of the three oaths in the U.S. Constitution.
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