Speech or Debate Clause | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Speech or Debate Clause


00:00:54 1 Case law
00:01:03 1.1 iGravel v. United States/i: congressional aides and private publication
00:04:29 1.2 iUnited States v. Rayburn House Office Building/i: searches of congressional offices
00:07:53 1.3 iWuterich v. Murtha/i: defamation actions arising from comments made in legislative role
00:09:51 2 See also



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The Speech or Debate Clause is a clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1). The clause states that members of both Houses of Congress

...shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

The intended purpose is to prevent a President or other officials of the executive branch from having members arrested on a pretext to prevent them from voting a certain way or otherwise taking actions with which the President might disagree.
A similar clause in many state constitutions protects members of state legislatures in the United States. Legislators in non-U.S. jurisdictions may be protected by a similar doctrine of parliamentary immunity.