Judicial Contempt Power in the United States
Contempt Power, Judicial
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled CONTEMPT POWER, JUDICIALThe Constitution nowhere mentions contempt of court. The courts’ powers in this area flow instead from a common law tradition of debated antiquity and legitimacy. Contempt power has, however, become entangled with the Constitution in two respects: first, courts have had to
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