No Bill of Attainder...shall be passed. The Constitution prohibits both the federal government (in this clause) and the states (in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) from passing either bills of ...
No State shall...pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law.... The Framers regarded bills of attainder and ex post facto laws as so offensive to liberty that they prohibited their use by both ...
We have been alone, but no less adamant, that the findings of the J6 committee in Congress added up to a bill of attainder — meaning a trial by legislature — that is prohibited to the federal and ...