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Native America Calling
"david cole" Discussed on Native America Calling
"The long list of parties submitting friend of the court, or amicus curiae briefs on this case, includes 497 tribes, and 62 tribal and Indian organizations. They say ICWA protects native children's well-being, and preserves tribal nations. Another brief comes from Robin Bradshaw, a registered member of the white earth band of the ojibwe tribe, she outlined her protracted legal battle in Minnesota to hang on to custody of her granddaughter. Another brief was written by a group of administrative and constitutional law professors represented by Dallas attorney David Cole, Cole said, in an interview that there is sincere and compelling emotion on both sides, but the issue comes down to the law, does the U.S. Constitution empower Congress to pass laws such as ICWA to further the United States obligation to enforce treaties. There have been treaties made with Indian nations requiring certain commitments towards taking care of children in the welfare of families and pursuant to those treaties. Congress has enacted ICWA as something necessary and proper to carry out the goals of those trees. The other side sees it differently. The state of Texas and 7 individuals argue that ICWA is unconstitutional because it discriminates against non Indian adoptive or foster parents, and allows Congress to commandeer the functions of state courts and agencies to carry out ICWA practices. Supreme Court Justices will settle the issue in a future opinion. For national native news, I'm Victoria wicks in Rapid City, South Dakota. Tribal leaders across the country are among those defending the Indian child welfare act, leaders of the Cherokee nation, morongo band of mission Indians, oneida nation and quin nation were among those to attend arguments at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Wednesday. Leaders say the law keeps native children with native families. They're calling for the protection of ICWA to make sure children are not taken away from tribal communities. Cherokee nation principal chief chuck hoskin junior in a statement called ICWA a gold standard. He says the law has kept Indian nation's whole and Indian children and tribal homes so they can retain their culture and identity. A number of native organizations, legal experts, and child welfare advocates are also supporting the law. Redistricting in North Dakota had a mixed results for native candidates in this week's election, newly redrawn boundaries contributed to the ousting of two native incumbents. Democrat Richard marcelli lost his seat in the state Senate after 7 terms. He's the former chairman of the turtle mountain band of chippewa, the tribe has a pending legal challenge against the new district boundaries that split the reservations voting power and combined it with non tribal votes. Democrat Ruth buffalo also lost her seat. She's a citizen of the mandan hidatsa and arikara nation and was the first Native American woman elected to the North Dakota legislature. A change to her district diluted the urban base in Fargo that initially put her in office. But a newly created district ushered in the election a mandan hidatsa recur nation citizen, Lisa Finley DeVille. She was elected in the district that now includes the fort berthold reservation. Democrats will hold just 15 of North Dakota's 141 legislative seats. I'm Antonio Gonzales. National native news is produced by quantic broadcast corporation with funding by the corporation for public broadcasting. Make sure
WTVN
"david cole" Discussed on WTVN
"Deciding whether to recall Governor Gavin Newsom data that could show helpful for Newsome and preliminary exit polls with both early and Election day voters. 54% of California voters, said Newsome years in touch with their CERN's 69% said they support the state mask mandate 63% side with Newsome and seeing vaccinations as more of a public health responsibility than a personal choice. Just three and 10, California voters said Newsom's pandemic control measures are too strict a BCS Alex Stone in Los Angeles, the intelligence community has yet to reach a definitive answer as to what causes Havana syndrome. Deputy CIA director David Cole in terms of whether we have gotten closer, I think, um, I think the answer is yes, but not Close enough in order to, um to make you know the sort of analytic But judgment that I think people are, uh, are waiting for diplomats and intelligence officers posted around the world have been affected by the mysterious attacks on their health. Children make up almost a third of Covid 19 cases, according to the latest Research. But the U. S. Is getting closer to a major step in trying to reverse that term. Millions of parents eager to know how soon their younger Children could finally get a vaccine tonight a clearer picture fighter today revealing it will submit data from its trial for 5 to 11 year olds to the FDA in early October, followed by trial data for Children six months to five years old in the weeks after ABC. Stephanie Ramos. Stocks closed lower today You're listening to ABC News, Do.
KPCC
"david cole" Discussed on KPCC
"David Cole, an appellate litigator based in Texas. Chris wrote on Facebook Logistically, how do these civil lawsuits happen? If a person doesn't tell him when they had an abortion? And if the people who helped the person keep their mouths shut, And if medical providers are bound to maintain patient privacy? How could grounds for a civil lawsuit even be established? We'll get to that question and more after the break. This is 18. Hi. I'm Dan Golf and I live in a Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles As an avid filmgoer I love following movies and hearing film reviews and Wanting information on what's a good movie. And that is going to engage me and challenged me and stimulate me. And film Week is my go to resource more than any other film resource. The reviewers are knowledgeable. They are stimulating. They Have different different viewpoints and the challenges me So that's where I find the good movies and I go to film Week. Every single week. I listened to it on the kpcc app on my phone, and I'm up to date on everything. And I love kpcc for that. So I'm very, very appreciative. Please become a sustaining member, Go to.
WBAP 820AM
"david cole" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Covid 19 vaccine mandates, which requires all federal workers and contractors. You do business with the federal government to get vaccinated against the virus. It also requires all employees with 100 or more people to ensure their workforces fully vaccinated or get a negative test. Weekly companies don't comply could face steep fines Correspondent Rachel Sutherland reports. He's taking it a step further. President Biden and the first lady dropped in on 1/6 grade science class at Brooklyn Middle School. After the president called on governors to require vaccines for teachers and school staff. Vaccination requirements in schools were nothing new. They work. They're overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. Meanwhile, constitutional Attorney David Cole says Biden's order is pretty straightforward, with some exceptions. He's not doing anything that different from the CEO of a company setting employment policy. There's a little more questionable legally is this planned mandate his son place yet towards private employers to have the Labor Department have some regulations until the whole bunch of people what to do there? Cole says the latter could draw some scrutiny in court. Down the road. Texas BUSINESS Real time numbers on Wall Street The Dow was down 89 points, NASDAQ down 17 points. And the S and P 500 down eight points from the W B A P News desk. I'm Nicolo say your next update is at 11 30 24 7 coverage at w b A p dot com Does Joe really care about your health? Or is this about money? Power and control? I'm announcing that the Department of Labor To.
KILF Morning New Podcast
"david cole" Discussed on KILF Morning New Podcast
"It short end up in the court system somewhere. Which is why we turn to our constitutional law expert. David co from lynn. Pinker hurston swagman. Good morning david your morning. How're you doing. Good let's get right to it is. It's going to hold up in court. Well it's It's got some trouble sign trouble. Lights flashing on it He what he did was he said. I'm going to ask the department of labor which means osha to come up with some regulations that require businesses to the stuff. You're saying about testing with employers over one hundred people Okay fair enough. The president can make that request of the agency but presidents do that a lot and when agency start rushing to try to please the boss courts get real interested remember. president trump. Had this happened a lot like the end. The daca case and you know courts are skeptical with agencies rush their work so what arguments are opponents gonna use if they file legislation or file a lawsuit. So they're gonna say the phrase they used in the challenges to some of the regulations encouraged by the trump administration. Were the the phrase in the law is arbitrary and capricious which is a fancy way of saying. They didn't show their work. There's a set way you're supposed to go about enacting a new rule. When you're an administrative agency any agency not just osha and we're agencies get in trouble is when the president says we've got to do this real quick if god did this real quick and they come out with something kinda controversial. They have heard from everyone. They haven't built a full record. The courts are going to say guys you didn't you didn't show your work it's arbitrary and capricious you've got to go back to square one either. A lot of employers have already put this mandate in saying if you're not vaccinated that you know not going to have a job anymore. We're going to fire you. And i'm sure there that is being tested in court as well What's to say that employers. Say we're just gonna test everyone but that gets expensive too. Well that's a decision. There's a business decision and businesses have a lot of latitude about what they can require their employees indeed. Yesterday the president biden said he was going to require federal employees to be tested. Assuming the unions go along with that. He's just acting like the c. Over really big business. A lot of other leaders have made similar decisions so employees don't have a lot of court challenges to make their unless there's a unique religious issue or something like that but you're right that can get expensive and the businesses have to make cost decisions about those things another reason why they regulators need to move carefully on this. If they impose a bunch of costs on somebody they better have a good explanation in the records or courts will be skeptical. How is this going to be enforced. I see that like the vaccine police. You know coming and knocking on the door of your business saying oh you have one hundred and went employees. Is everyone vaccinated. Can i see your vaccination cards. You know it'll be awkward events. Osha has a big enforcement and compliance situation. Already they've been around. Since the seventies they enforce workplace laws all the time about different safety mechanisms and they would just. Maybe it would just be another regulation. They enforced if they found. You weren't compliance. They'd give you warning and maybe impose some kind of administrative penalty and that can get expensive for the penalty. Start to mount up so it would just be another thing that the osha Enforcement authorities look for when they visit with the business. And i think there was one governor. Who said she was going to you know he has lawyers working on a on a lawsuit against the biden administration. So what what are they gonna file. who knows. there's always something. But i think if if if if the claim is that there. There's a potential claim that federal regulation in this area is encroaching on traditional state. Prerogative to regulate public health response to an emergency. I'm not sure that's going to have a lot of legs. But i can see where there's room for that argument. We saw this in the early days of the pandemic states. Were trying to do all this action and the federal government was a little bit in the background. That's just the way we've traditionally handled it so that'd be interesting to see if they proceed without whether it got anywhere it's an interesting point. I'm not sure what succeed in the long run in your opinion. Is this a states. Rice issue Probably not i mean we've part of the situation we have here is the the emergency has gone on forever. It's been a year and a half of emergency now and it's sort of become a new normal. That's not really healthy. In actually seeing osha start to regulate this like an ordinary workplace. Problem is kind of refreshing. That's sort of the way you're supposed to do. This kind of thing is through the normal process. And i'll be running around with a bunch of emergency stuff so seeing it move to become more federal actually think is sort of healthy and suggests we may be finally working our way through this all right. David always appreciate your insight. Thank you very much. Have a good weekend. You to constitutional law expert david cole. From lynn pekar hearst and swagman..
KILF Morning New Podcast
"david cole" Discussed on KILF Morning New Podcast
"The supreme court allowed texas's new abortion law go into effect the the first of september and almost immediately thereafter texas judge issued a temporary restraining order protecting some abortion clinics from private popper property private party. Excuse me private party lawsuits that the new law seems to encourage joining us this morning to take a look at what it all means is constitutional law expert david cole. Good morning david morning air. You guys do. Thanks for getting up on this labor day. Early for us Tell us about this temporary restraining order and what it means well. So we've we've through with the federal system. The smell supreme court said the federal courts. Have nothing more to say for now up the statute that goes back to stay court but before anyone filed a lawsuit under the statute planned. Parenthood austin sued specific group. They believe is likely to sue for an injunction saying. Hey you can't sue us and it's cute set up in that lawsuit not the issue of whether the laws constitutional or not all that certainly in there but what's called the irreparable injury the hassle factor of them having to defend that and potentially other cases under the statute. That's kind of what has been about all along is that these cases are going to be very difficult for large providers to defend. That's the issue in front of the court there. The basis this urgency injunction and then a couple of weeks it will receive more evidence decide whether to keep it in place. So what does this basically mean that places like planned. Parenthood can continue to perform abortions even after a heartbeat is detected. I doubt that this is a procedural maneuver to try to stop some of the litigation under this particular statute for everybody else Out there that could potentially sue planned. Parenthood they're good to go. And i doubt planned. Parenthood has got to change. Its business practices because of one case.
KILF Morning New Podcast
Texas Judge Grants Restraining Order Protecting Some Abortion Clinics
"The supreme court allowed texas's new abortion law go into effect the the first of september and almost immediately thereafter texas judge issued a temporary restraining order protecting some abortion clinics from private popper property private party. Excuse me private party lawsuits that the new law seems to encourage joining us this morning to take a look at what it all means is constitutional law expert david cole. Good morning david morning air. You guys do. Thanks for getting up on this labor day. Early for us Tell us about this temporary restraining order and what it means well. So we've we've through with the federal system. The smell supreme court said the federal courts. Have nothing more to say for now up the statute that goes back to stay court but before anyone filed a lawsuit under the statute planned. Parenthood austin sued specific group. They believe is likely to sue for an injunction saying. Hey you can't sue us and it's cute set up in that lawsuit not the issue of whether the laws constitutional or not all that certainly in there but what's called the irreparable injury the hassle factor of them having to defend that and potentially other cases under the statute. That's kind of what has been about all along is that these cases are going to be very difficult for large providers to defend. That's the issue in front of the court there. The basis this urgency injunction and then a couple of weeks it will receive more evidence decide whether to keep it in place. So what does this basically mean that places like planned. Parenthood can continue to perform abortions even after a heartbeat is detected. I doubt that this is a procedural maneuver to try to stop some of the litigation under this particular statute for everybody else Out there that could potentially sue planned. Parenthood they're good to go. And i doubt planned. Parenthood has got to change. Its business practices because of one case.
KILF Morning New Podcast
"david cole" Discussed on KILF Morning New Podcast
"Criticism for how he's handled the afghanistan withdrawal but is this enough to warrant impeachment. Seems to be a question that we ask a lot. We we asked We have david cole. This question During the trump administration. And i think in matter of fact. That's where we we. I got hooked up with david cole. And we're very glad that we did. He's back constitutional law expert. David cole from lynn. Pinker hurston sh- wakeman here in dallas morning david morning. How're you doing just fine. You know. I think a lot of people in this country are still under the impression. First of all that impeachment means removing an official from their their elected position In this case the president or that and or that in order to impeach somebody all you gotta do is be really mad at him. Yeah and it's it's extremely difficult to do. It's never been done. Actually there've been articles of impeachment against obviously president trump against president johnson president clinton Nixon never went further than drafting and it. The constitution requires that the house prepared. The articles of impeachment requires a two thirds majority in the senate for anything to happen. And that's very hard to get that kind of margin in that kind of an elected body. It's just not ever happened. So is there anything to this idea that The president could be impeached over the way he handled afghanistan. Well gerald ford back in the day When the nixon impeachment was in the air commented that when you at the end of the day Impeachment is what two thirds of the senate says it is. The constitution doesn't say anything in great detail about what justifies impeachment. It's a political decision made by the house of the senate hard decision to reach but one that's committed to them not to the courts and remember in the trump the first trump impeachment the argue there no one ever argued. He violated a specific law. They just said he put his own interests ahead of the country's dealing with ukraine and that was fish justify each sort of that argument derived from the structure of the constitution. So you could make the argument here. A lousy job is commander in chief is something that justifies each month and if a majority agrees with that wealthier in the game. What do you think there is there. Is there enough of a sentiment in the congress or in the country To to go this far with with president biden. Yeah i. I don't think so. I mean there's a lot of anger about what happened in afghanistan. Seeing those those marines that were killed in that in that attack but the sad fact is that things like this has happened. Many times in our history with many different presidents both republicans democratic and another sad fact is a lot of blame to go around here certainly the by the administration. It appears didn't have the greatest plan in the world for this but they didn't get into this. This was george. W bush started this to other presidents perpetuated. That so i think once you get past the initial shock. I'd be surprised if there was really a cinema to be that angry at the career president. It seems like we're throwing around the impeachment thing every time someone doesn't agree with what the president does. Oh i hate to say. Ken starr was right. But ken starr was right. He gave an argument during the trump impeachment. Said look we. We run the risk of creating an agent impeachment. Where every time somebody gets mad they go running to congress and now it's in the air about this kind of decision. He may well have been issued a good warning for us to be careful about this. A california has the recall election coming up very shortly very soon For their governor. The california does this every twenty years or so that recall the governor and i've never heard that That possibility applied to a president. I don't know if i was gonna ask you if that's a possibility. Or what about censure. Well so I don't know about censure. I doubt you could do that. Because president is executive in the congress are distinct branches of the constitution that a really great each other's paper except for impeachment Recall procedures one of those glorious things people's california thought of all by themselves it's unique feature of their laws their structure their state and bless their hearts. They do it every few years. And i'm not sure the rest of the country is quite ready for that one yet it takes. The impeachment thing adds another level of complexity onto it. So good luck to them. But i don't think we ought to be following their lead on that one let's shift gears to texas. A lot of people were watching the supreme court to see if they were going to get involved in the heartbeat. Bill before it went into effect today. turns out. They didn't what happens now. At the i guess it goes into effect but can the supreme court made a decision later. On it certainly. Can't it went into effect at midnight. So we know with a world where that statute is the law of texas but the supreme court still has an emergency motion pending in from it. I think what happened is justice alito furtive to the full court which is not unusual for major decisions like that and they just don't have a consensus if they had five six votes tonight estate. They would've voted last night. Something's going on where they're trying to form a consensus. Mike guess and given that doesn't really gonna happen to that much with. They're really days with statue taking us. Actually they just decided to wait. Warm consensus the voting bills. Pass now. we're just waiting for the governor to sign those bills as fight pretty much over now. Oh yeah that's the governor signs at well. In terms of state government there will be litigation about it in the federal courts. Alleging violates various protections federal election law and the constitution and That's not unusual with election type. Laws redistricting always tied up of course for a while. So i think the act to is going to be litigation over it david. Thank you as always we. We really enjoyed talking with you. Teach you teach us things and you do it in such a superb understandable way. You guys asked the great questions to be asking so power to you. There's david cole constitutional law expert with lynn. Pinker hurston swagman here in dallas. Well joe buck may have been sleeping in the dog. this is this is..
Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: Reviews, Interviews, and Discussion About All the Romance Novels You Love to Read
"david cole" Discussed on Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: Reviews, Interviews, and Discussion About All the Romance Novels You Love to Read
"My roommates favorite drinks is an moretto ginger ale. Ooh both of those things easy. You just mix them together. Yeah what were your favorite books in middle school slash high school. Okay so i am very old and very very old and there's currently a podcast called. Listen to sassy with tara david cole and pamela ribbon. This and they are re reading old episodes episodes issues of sassy magazine and they break each episode into three and it is brilliant. Because it's i. I didn't realize how much sassy had influenced me as a young impressionable teen. But wow did it. Although there were some things. I was never into like i never really got into the white sox and big black chunky shoes thing. That was not a thing for me. But be that as it may. I am old and discovered romance. In highschool which means i graduated in nineteen ninety-three i discovered romance at peak force deduction fuchsia giant sweater puppies on the cover. Big big big big hair. Everything's exhaling in a different direction. That was when i found her. So one of my favorite books. After i discovered romance. Which is what. I one i read was blaze windham by bertram. Small town boy. I brought it with me. When i studied abroad in one thousand nine hundred six. It is what i believe is termed fucking through history book she. She has sex with a bunch of different dudes including king henry. The eighth for a good for her. And it's it's tutor and i hadn't realized that tutor was a thing back then. But there are a lot of tudor romances. That book is completely over. The top. And i love it deeply. I will never not love that book but in middle school i was totally a sweet valley person. I'd only took me like twenty five thirty minutes to read the frigging. They weren't were not. They were very small and you got in. This was when they were still arriving month to month so every month there was a newsweek belly high. I was super in to sweet valley high seriously into it. I didn't get to the end of the series when there was an earthquake in and refrigerator killed a secondary character. Yes that's up. Fridge falls on olivia davidson. She dies in an earthquake. I think that's how they ended the series. I never got to that because they were. They were in junior year for like ten years into spring. Breaks who summer vacations do winner vacations. But they were still juniors they were sixteen and as much as sassy influenced me unfortunately sweet valley as well because holy balls or those books fast. Spoke fat-phobic jeez so fat fat-phobic so what about you. What were your favorite books in middle school and high school. Oh this is tricky. Because seventh grade i i. We moved from south florida to north florida and the school i went to was a combination middle middle school high school very rural so our library options weren't great. So i read a lot of stephen king. But i loved juliet really i still do. She writes like fantasy with a little bit of romance. The first book. I remember reading by hers. My friend best friend in middle school recommended. It took me and it was the start of the daughter of the forest which is Liquor retailing of the six swans and so i was obsessed with her books as a a young amanda. And then like i was super into mongo in middle school and high school peak. Tiny into it too..
KLIF 570 AM
"david cole" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Motown knew it was a hit song, but no one wanted to record it. That story's coming up from Ed Wallace with a moment rock'n'roll history at 7 55. Right now. It is 7 40. It's 20 minutes before eight o'clock we've been watching the last couple of days. Democrats absolutely losing their minds. And I don't mean that Hard to say, I don't mean it judge mentally but I mean, they're really being hysterical in this saying this so called trial, which is not in fact a trial and I don't think we can say it too often that this is a political process. The second impeachment of Donald Trump it not just because it's Donald Trump or it's because it's happening this year. It's because that's the way it was intended. That's according to David Cole, who has our constitutional expert and friend on these matters. Is David on the line with us yet. No. Okay, one of the things we might be able to talk with him about. If not today, in the near future, is that you, David? That's me. All right. Good. Glad to have you with us. All right now, Never mind that I was sorry about that. That's quite all right. We're all spread all over town here. Amy and I are both in our homes. And Scott is trying Tonto keep everything coordinated by throwing up. Signals smoke signals and waving flags anyway, Eh? So what have you seen so far? This process and what's your reaction to it? Your comments. Air will take it is it's political. It's done by politicians. It's for me is someone who's around a lot of trials of lawsuits. It's really something to see the jurors. The senators on both sides go back after the day and speak to the lawyers and helped him get ready for the next day. That would be, you know, criminal, you know, then a core proceeding, but here it's par for the course it's allowed. It's encouraged. And so it's sort of a remarkable thing to see that it reminds you that it is political. Both sides are playing to their strength. The Democrats strength is what happened on January 6. That was terrible. We feel awful about what happened to our Capitol building. Decide they're going to hear today talks about a couple of Legal arguments that don't make a good video, but that have power to the Republican side of the house. And then they're gonna have to make a vote once they hear that, but they're a little bit like two ships. They don't have a lot of clash between the two sides, and the arguments are important to them. Questions that I have. Does it appear that they changed any minds. I wouldn't think so. And what is Trump's team need to do starting today? Yeah, it probably not. I mean, these these senators are very sophisticated politicians, They know exactly what their constituencies expected them. And I, There might have been a couple of people trying to figure out what the best side would be the toe move with, But I doubt that was more than a couple of people with that many as for today, the old adage in trial work isn't for winning. Sit down. And that the defense side the Trump side should be winning because they have enough Republican senators that seem to be going their way to avoid two thirds. They should talk for a little bit. They should make their arguments. They should sit down and try to get out of Dodge. David. I don't know if everybody else was able to hear everything You said. I heard very little of what you said because of a Some some bad technical problems there. Let me ask you one more question and see and see how it goes. S O. Each side has 16 hours to argue its case. The Republicans took a full 16 hours to get up and say the same thing over and over again and in different words. I mean, what else could they do? And now it's the Trump defense team. What can they possibly do for 16 hours? Will they use all that time? And will we be seeing other senators standing up to defend the former president? Yeah. Hopefully I'm coming through this time. They should. They should not use 16 hours. They should make their two or three constitutional points like clearly make them decisively without a lot of wandering around like we saw the first day and sit down 23 hours, tops. On Ben, Turn it over to the centers for their questions and their vote. So when do you think the vote's gonna happen is gonna happen today? You're gonna happen Sunday because I know they're taking Saturday off for the Jewish Sabbath. Don't it will be today because even a couple hours with breaks and whatnot, attempts toe takes longer than you might think in. The centers do have an opportunity to ask questions. That's probably not swaying any minds, But it is important because it's the public is watching this and senators want people to know how they view the issues. I would expect that to take today. Perhaps even longer. If they're a lot of questions, then the vote will take place at some point when the Senate reconvenes. And after that happens, we will be back on the line with you. Thank you very much. David have a great day and a good weekend. Thank you. Take care of advice. David Cole, Constitutional lawyer from Lynn, Pinker, Hearst and Schreibman in Dallas. Coming up. We're.
WBAP 820AM
"david cole" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"S. Senate made it pretty clear that Donald Trump will not be convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors while he was president of the United States. Dave Williams and Amy Schade, RAF suspect that may not be the end of Trump's troubles. It seems clear that the Democrats in Congress aren't going to just say good riddance to Trump after the trial, no matter which way the verdict goes, we asked constitutional law expert David Cole with Lynn Pinker Hearst and swingman in Dallas. What legal problems may still be dogging the ex president. Well, he has a lot of ongoing problems always predated his pain. The opposite president, hey, has that number of financial related investigations being pursued by New York State authorities? Hey, had some sexual harassment litigations that out there for a long time. All that's been kind of spade. While he's been president. That's gonna heat back up again. And then he has some issues about what happened on January 6th and there is potential civil liability of people died wrongful death lawsuits or possible he could potentially be famed in that, and there may be some investigations in the sum of the events. Leading up to the canal finalization of the election, where he allegedly tried to influence the outcome of the Taliban. Some ST George in particular. Let's bottom line this and then we can get into some more of the details, but just for people who may be going I hope they throw his butt in jail. That's not gonna happen, Is it? Probably not. I mean any any criminal investigation that Z really serious about the presidency? For one thing, the Biden administration is going to be slow to pursue that it's there's a natural reluctance to go after the guy that was just there before you. Andre would take a long time to set up and put into place and delve necessary evidence that's a ways off. The bigger risk for him is really the civil litigation rearing back up again and some of these long running criminal investigations in New York that had just been kind of out there gathering steam all this time, and he's gonna need some lawyers pretty quick to handle those We're talking with the constitutional law expert David Cole. Here in Dallas is the Congress overstepping the intent of the Constitution and the framers by utilizing impeachment after the president's already out of office. It's a It's a real gray area. To be honest with you. There are two sentences in the Constitution that talk about this one article, too, about the presidency. One article one about Congress, they are not entirely consistent. And neither one directly deals with the situation of an impeachment brought after someone has left office. There have been impeachments in the past brought against high ranking government officials after they left office, one of secretary of defense many years ago Senator Way, Way Way back in the Adams administration, but that's kind of inconclusive. It never went to court and create a precedent. So there is room to argue on both sides, and it's gonna be a matter of what the Senate wants to do. Ultimately, it may be a political decision that the Constitution just gives to the Senate to decide. Cole says the founding fathers intended for impeachment to be primarily a political process. As such, they required a two thirds vote of the Senate to convict. No, it's interesting. Those two cases I mentioned one of them not to go historical here, but he was the secretary of War secretary defense under Ulysses Grant. People hated the guy. He was really, really corrupt. The Senate expelled but he resigned. The Senate proceeded with impeachment trials, then evidence as quickly as it possibly could had 40 witnesses and then just sort of fizzled out. They didn't get a two thirds majority and they weren't able to convict. He was very unpopular. It done things that were very high profile, but it's very hard to sustain the political will. You need to get all the way through the impeachment process? And so that's why the bar is set so high. We're kind of defending lawsuits earlier. It's a difficult thing to do. You have to really, really have a strong motive in ability to carry out things. So see him the piece but all the way to the end. Constitutional law expert David Cole. I'm Dave Williams for W B A. P Able to be a happy news is time is 7 19 of the check of weather and traffic on the way projects sign makes it easy for good people to connect with great causes. Natural light, shine, Visit Volunteer Mass and brighten someone's day today Connect with projects shine at W B a. P. Com If you're confused about what kind of new car to get where they give it, what to do, What your old car or whether or not you should buy released, You need to tune into the core pro show Jerry Reynolds. Car pro here every Saturday. I give you two hours of straight talk and honest.
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"Job search. Never a feed for double VIP news. I'm meteorologist Scott Larrimore, the Weather Channel. Right now. Fair 54 degrees and Denton News brought to you by in classic Chevrolet. Missouri Senator Josh Holly is calling for an ethics probe into Democrats. You filed an ethics complaint against him. Jeff Manasso has more under Josh Holly into written letters is slamming Democratic colleagues who filed an ethics complaint against the Missouri Republican and Texas senator Ted Cruz, over their electoral college objections in the presidential election earlier this month. Holy, accusing seven Democratic senators of filing what he calls a frivolous it improper ethics complaint at the U. S. Capitol Jeff Mona's so Fox News now that he's out of office, former President Trump faces the number of financial related investigations, ongoing sexual harassment, litigation and possible civil liability related to the takeover of the U. S Capitol earlier this month. Could he be locked up in Dallas lawyer David Cole says, probably not criminal investigation That's really serious about the presidency. For one thing, the Biden administration is going to be slow to pursue that if there's a natural reluctance to go after the guy that was just there before you, Cole says The biggest risk for Trump is the ongoing civil litigation that has been on hold since he was in office. Texas business Real time numbers on Wall Street. The Dow down 105 Point says to be 500 is up 5000.3 and the NASDAQ is up 31 again. A high of 68 Right now it's mostly sunny 57 degrees in Fort Worth News also brought to you by keys to the capital and the law offices of nickname it from the W B A P News desk. I'm Mike Training your next update at 12 30 24 7 coverage it w b a p dot com This'll has been an incredible four years a new president, new president, Let's start a fresh all of this. Let's begin, though. Listen one of her again Get the fax 24 7. The insight and opinion. There's no way that Joe Biden Woz interested in unity. It's just something to say. Right right here. How we can unify if we don't recognize that 70 Million people are not mean heard you talking 20. Wv A P W b A P com Spokespersons for the law offices of nickname is Mr Smith. There's someone here to see you. Who is it? They say differently. I r s no need to panic. Get tax attorney nickname with on the phone Right away. I'm local tax attorney nickname. It's with the law offices of nickname is located right here in Dallas. If you're facing iris, wage levees, garnishment stacks leans or unfired returns, whether business.
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"Is all about trying to make good on his buy American campaign promise the same promise that his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, accused him. Plagiarizing from him Now. The goal here is going to be to essentially bolster US manufacturing through the federal procurement process by changing rules so that more of a manufactured goods components originate from US factories, making it harder for contractors to qualify for a waiver and sell foreign made goods to federal agencies and creating a public website for companies that received waivers to sell foreign goods to the government so that U. S manufacturers can be more competitive. Also happening on Capitol Hill. The House will deliver the article of impeachment against former President Trump Today. Correspondent Jared Halpern. House impeachment managers will introduce the article of impeachment against the former president this evening in the Senate, outlining a charge of incitement of insurrection related to the January 6th riot at the Capitol. Senators will be sworn in as jurors Tuesday, but actual arguments are still two weeks off. Both Trump and House prosecutors have until February 9th for briefs and rebuttals to be filed. By people died in the chaos at the capital, including a U. S capitol police officer who was beaten by rioters. Meanwhile, Trump faces a number of financially related investigations, ongoing sexual harassment, litigation and possible civil liability related to the riot. Dallas attorney David Cole says criminal charges aren't likely criminal investigation that's really serious about the presidency. For one thing, the Biden administration is going to be slow to pursue that if there's a natural reluctance to go after the guy who was just there before you, he says The biggest risk for Trump is the ongoing civil litigation that has been on hold while he was in office. Texas business will time numbers on Wall Street. The Dow was down 350 points NASDAQ Down 61 points on the S and P 500 down 28 points. There's also brought to you by the dental implant place from the W B A P News desk. I'm Nicola say your next update is a 10 30. Any 47 coverage at WB ap dot com. This'd is the news and talk of Texas. It's D FW's liberty Loving Latino. Chris Sell Saito right now. Unused talking 20 w B A D W b A P 200.0. Yeah, I think it's beyond question now. That the Republican Party the way it's currently a raid is largely ineffective. That President Donald Trump with historic opposition to everything that he did, was still able to accomplish a lot in favor of the country. Um With Donald Trump and charge you didn't have to worry about about government censorship. You didn't have to worry about all you left wingers out there. You need to worry. That your rights we're going to be taken away from you. That is what happens when socialist takeover your country. That's when all that stuff starts to go away. And that that is what is happening right now. I am. The rule of law doesn't mean anything. If we need to win an election, we can ignore the rule of law. We need to, uh Welcome in illegal aliens, criminal felons. We getting or the rule of law? The arbitrary application of law is the hallmark of left wing totalitarian governments. That just to summarize justice for me, but not for the Up. Does anybody believe that investigations into Biden's son and his brother are going to go anywhere? Of course not. John Durham is long for gotten So You know, as I tried to explain the left us out there before the election if Trump Wins. Then guess what you get to keep your rights and your liberties in your freedoms. If he doesn't, then all we conservatives lose ours. And you can see that the hammer coming down on those is it is it rightly should came down on those who breached the capital on January 6th. But we are now months into left wing violence across this country and they are deterred. Most of them are just Arrested and let go, not even charged. Just ask the city of Fort Worth. Isn't that right? Level numbers 800 to 8 A W B A P. Let's get out of Dallas. David Appreciate your waiting What say you? Hey, Chris. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. First off. I wanted to say that I think that Republicans have abandoned conservatives. But when you asked what you thought about when you know the Patriot Party I'm tempted to thank the end of democracy. Um you know, the denser wise and they stick together. They always back each other up, no matter how many different platforms and people they want to represent. But I don't think that we will ever get another conservative elected representatives. If you know we have a another party. I just don't see that happening. Well, what happens if the Republican Party is supplanted? By the Patriot Party. What What if all what if we get back to a two party system? Because there's something you gotta consider David right now. Do you know what the largest political party in the United States is? I don't the independent party. Did you know that that 40% of Americans identify his independent and it's roughly 30 30 for the For the Republicans and Democrats, So both those political parties air, old and tired Uh, it's just it's just left us don't matter whether they have a majority or not, They're going to impose their will. Regardless,.
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"Watching today. News this hour Brought to you by indeed from a K l i. F soda Weight loss News desk. This is real news and information in the morning with day Williams and Amy Schade ride morning. It's 803 1st thing. I thought of this morning when I woke up. Hey, what happened to that big thunderstorm that were supposed to Come through here overnight. Supposed to be going on right now? Well, it came through Ah, little bit later than we thought it was going to come through, and it wasn't a severe is we thought there were some warnings and some hail that did fall wasn't it Wasn't a big deal Some power outages to tell you about later this morning, but not not not a big deal. So that is that is good news. This little threw in the six o'clock hour and it was gone in a hurry because it was moving at 55 miles an hour, and it was just a Of a straight line system. Also, good morning and thanks for joining us and coming up the post holiday coded spike continues to grow. Yeah, When the impeachment trial is finished, and the smoke clears, will the process become more common? We're going to check in with constitutional law expert David Cole. We've been. We've been talking about this a little bit in the last few weeks. And maybe you've been wondering whatever happened to the seasonal flu. We usually hear about that a lot. We haven't heard one word, not a word. And I will tell you why. Coming up in just a few minutes. And that Zoe kind of a mind blower. Really? It's 804 right now, Let's check your traffic again for a Monday morning. Here's Bill Jackson. It's sponsored by Staples Stores in Dallas on I 45 North Bound, passed over to direct blocks, two left lanes. There's a backup to Illinois Avenue that I 30 westbound at Ferguson and accident has reported on I 35 East South out of Dallas towards tollway and accidents being cleared in Arlington on I 20 Westbound Involvement Springs, a crash blocks the way plane that's backed up past Green Oaks Boulevard and Onto north bound to 87 headed Fort Worth on I 30 westbound at University of Big Wreck was finally cleared out of the way. There are lingering delays. Staples has what you need like furniture, the latest tech products and organization solutions all of amazing prices and now save up to $20 on select TurboTax software..
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"You get the Democrats controlling him Didn't wouldn't have sent it already. 50 50 Now with those two new senators from once they're installed, Yeah. When are they going to be installed to rest up? More installed on the third? Yeah, because the election was after that. It was the eighth that whatever soon Yeah, let me see. When they go in with me. I would have thought the next day they would have been installed. So they don't take over. They don't take that seat the day the president Uh, Inauguration day. No Congress gets sworn in on January 3rd and Inauguration days on the 20th. What do they take the seat? So what did they get The vote? The third. Are they already voting and everything? So the Republicans have already lost the Senate. I would think they would have. I don't think they mean it was a runoff election. Not gonna wait weeks and weeks to swear those two people just you know, it takes effect Election day. No, no, no, no. You have to certify. And so in in in Atlanta, you had January 8th was the deadline for military overseas ballots. January 15 for the deadline for counties to certify the results, so that's tomorrow. And then Georgia on the 22nd. That's the deadline for the state to certify its results. But they could get it done before that, right that they're probably moving hard to get it down for the point. You're probably probably, but they could, but that's I don't know if they won't follow that. I mean, that's the deadline. Let's see what what they follow at right this second, though there's still a Republican advantage in the House and the Senate. Correct? Yes, Mitch McCall is called emergencies. Session. And they could put it about that could put it to bed, I guess. Yeah, I am. It's all you have to do is a really good thing. I'm I'm I thought, you know, do it. Shut it down. Yeah. I think his problem is he doesn't have the votes to shut it down right now. Wow, Is that right? So it's that he might be one of them. So in other words, after this after Biden's Uh, inaugurated After you because President we're still gonna be dealing with this. Maybe I'II of there is a part of me that thinks it goes away. But I mean, when you hear Chuck Schumer's say, this is all that you know this is really about keeping him from running in 2024, which is what he is technically admitted. Then maybe it doesn't go away. I was kind of hoping that Mitch McConnell, slow plays and buying gets an office. You know, things you know, In that point, everything kind of settles down. But when you hear Mitch McConnell say, you know, we could move to keep him from running for office in 2024. That doesn't sound like it's going away. Doesn't know. I think it's gonna continuous long as the Democrats wanted to continue. Yeah. Now that now the narrative is this. Have you noticed this now? Now the narrative is he's a flight risk. Like Rose. Yes, The president once He's once his hands over with criminal charges may be brought against him, but he'll be a flight risk that he will go to one of his overseas properties that don't have extradition to the US I don't have a super Cooper agreements that flight risk. Are they? Are they going to bring him up? Are they going to charge him? Hey, I don't know, man. With what would you put it past him? You know what that's ignored. Let's ask David Cole. That question He's with Lynn Pinker Hearst and sh Wegman. He's going to join us next. We'll do that. After we check in with money could track 35 North found Daniel Dale still only the left lane getting my still gotta.
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"Idea of impeachment at this point. President Trump is he's a political pariah. He's a dangerous person. Now. For the Republicans who are going to be hanging around in Congress and looking forward to re election themselves. There are a couple of Republicans who have joined Joined with the Democrats on the house. We'll get to those in a moment, but what I'm really curious about is when this goes to the Senate. Um I won't be surprised that they pass it too, because It was it was S m U political scientist Cal Jillson, Cal Jillson, who told us last time we spoke, he said. There's a lot of cowardice in the nation's capital and comes to politics and he's He's right about that. But I haven't. I'm wondering if we're gonna hear any any actual support for the president. Or just kind of comments like Well, this isn't this isn't this doesn't achieve the constitutional A level of high crimes and misdemeanor that sort of thing, And I wonder what I haven't heard from Ted Cruz in a couple of days. Yeah, he's been kind of quiet. We're going to check in with Cal Jillson and 8 17 this morning while I was setting him up yesterday. I said Boy, people are starting to turn on the president, he said. Once it starts it, it goes quick. You know, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Says he now supports. Democrats moved to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president, but we still don't know how he would vote in an impeachment trial right. New York Times first reported that McConnell was Pleased that the House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against Trump source close to, McConnell told Fox News. Nobody is pleased by anything. Meanwhile, other sources told Fox News. There's no love Lost there. You can see what's happening. It's the politics of it all. And if you heard us talking with David Cole last hour, he gave an explanation of why it is so And that's just the Constitution is inextricably tangled.
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"Of them on Lee get their news and information from Social media. Would say it's a lot a lot of senators and the president has been said that hey, we can shut down whatever we want. We could take down all conservative views that we don't like and on Lee show the liberal agenda to younger people and that I mean it's legally within their right as a private company to decide. You know who they want on their platform. But when you have so many people, you know, depending on these platforms for their information that makes it scary when you have only one viewpoint, right, That's that's where the question is going to come up, But I don't think this conversation is going away. We talked about it when we discussed the social dilemma that Netflix documentary Is it time that we do something in the government to regulate and to make sure these companies aren't too big for their britches? Well, what's happened is and we we talked about this with David Cole is that the laws haven't caught up to the technology, right? You know, we lag so far behind and that and that continues to be a big problem. Yeah, it xga gonna be talked about For a long time until something changes because it's It's an absurd amount of power that these companies have Pope Francis said Sunday. He's praying for those who died in the U. S. Capitol rioting and he's appealed for calm to prevail in the U. S. During his traditional Sunday noon remarks at the Vatican, Francis noted that five people died when a mob stormed the building where Congress was meeting. Says violence is always self destructive, and he appealed to a high sense of responsibility by leaders to calm souls to prevent further violence. And speaking of what happened at the capital now we're hearing That all those lawmakers who took refuge and head while all the protesters and writers were storming the Capitol? Well, they might have been in the room with someone who had Cove in 19, yeah, Congress's attending physician warned Sunday. That's some House members spent several hours in the committee hearing room and they didn't wear masks and.
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"Reason that I called for the vice president and members of the Cabinet to ensure the next few weeks you're safe for the American people that we have a same captain of this ship and made the ramped up calls for his removal. In a flurry of Cabinet another resignations President Trump on Thursday made a brief statement and denouncing the violence at the Capitol. America is and must always be a nation of law and order the demonstrators who infiltrated the capital Have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction. You do not represent our country and to those who broke the law, you will pay Multiple members of the Trump administration have discussed invoking the 25th amendment. Dallas based Constitutional lawyer David Cole, chimes in the police is Roman's been in place since 67. It has ways out a few different ways in which President can be replaced or substituted for that become unable to serve it. Part of it has been invoked before When presidents have had to undergo flask. Easy as part of a medical procedure of the fourth clause of it, though, has never been used in the whole time. It's been on the books, and it's the one that allows the involuntary removal of the president. If they become incapable serving. It requires the consent of vice president Pence and nine Cabinet members. And if those 10 people agree they can then instantly actually remove the president from office, and they kick off a process that takes up to 21 days to resolve which would be Longer than the remaining days of the president's term that would effectively remove him from office. Attorney Cole says the atmosphere is ripe for such discussions. But should the 25th amendment be invoked? Yeah, sort of this perfect storm of conditions have a lot of anger. You have this unprecedented violence of the courthouse. You have the sense of anxiety in the country of all social media traffic, some which is very negative, very violent. So there's this stew out there of very troubling things, so I don't have the answer on God help Vice President Pence because you have to make that decision here. A lot of people calling for the next couple of days, but it's a situation where it's certainly needs to be considered. David Cole, Dallas based Constitutional lawyer. Kim Lampkin, CWB AP News 7 82 w B A B after checking traffic and whether we go to the movies with Frank, Sweet Tak from one guy's opinion, calm..
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Kim Jong Un calls for a ‘new path’ ahead of deadline
"Well now the Christmas holiday seasons past without a gift from the north Korean regime so US officials are puzzled the well as to why Kim Jong un chose not to conduct a weapons test so far correspondent David Cole over explain the north Korea's self imposed deadline is slowly approaching as the year nears its end North Korea gets closer to its self imposed deadline for successful denuclearization talks with the U. S. or adults Kim Jong un has worn in the past Abby that his country will take a quote new path not specifying
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Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Anti-Semitism
"Trump signed an executive order fighting anti semitism Bob Constantini explains some of the ground war rate Jumma close with trump in white letters on the back it is traditional for presidents to host supporters and members of Congress for a Hanukkah reception but this one comes following what police now believe was a deliberate attack on a kosher food store in Jersey city that left six people dead the president did not mention that specifically as president I will always celebrate and honor the Jewish people and I will always stand with our treasured friend and ally the state of Israel that I can the president signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds going to universities and institutions that engage in anti semitism including the business boycott of Israel well David Cole of the American civil liberties union put out a statement a couple hours later he praises attempts to fight anti semitism but as for Mr trump's in to stop the boycott which is designed to show support for Palestinians coal white the government cannot equate speech criticizing Israel with unlawful discrimination if the order were interpreted to do that it would be unconstitutional speech criticizing the Israeli government or any government is political speech protected under the first amendment Cole statement was followed by a vow to suit to prevent the boycott prohibition from taking effect
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Ex-Congresswoman who voted to impeach Nixon: Trump firing Sessions brings back troubling memories
"That gives Democrats subpoena power for the first time since President Donald Trump was elected two years ago a day after the election, Trump fired attorney general Jeff Sessions Trump's firing of sessions has led to many comparisons between Trump and former president Richard Nixon on Wednesday CNN's Jake tapper cold sessions ouster another chapter in quote, a slow motion multi-month Saturday night massacre. He was referencing the infamous Saturday night massacre in nineteen Seventy-three when then attorney general Elliot Richardson, and his deputy resigned after president Richard Nixon ordered Richardson to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal for more. We continue our conversation with Elizabeth thoughts. C'mon. Former US congresswoman from New York, she served on the House Judiciary committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon for over forty years. She had the record of being the young woman ever elected to congress. Her new book the case for impeaching Trump is out Monday still with us. David Cole national legal director for the American Civil Liberties union, so the Saturday night massacre. I mean as you were watching this unfold yet yesterday, Liz, you must have. It must be you must have been flooded with memories. Oh, yeah. And it's not just happy memories is very troubling memories. In fact, you can say that you get you know, tangling up and down your spine from the repetition here. What what triggered Richard Nixon's impeachment was his view that he was above the law, and particularly that he could not be held accountable. He and his staff and his colleagues accountable under the criminal law. So when the special prosecutor. Asked for his tapes, Nixon had White House tapes and the tapes could prove whether or not he had ordered a cover up. Nixon said, no, you're not getting the tapes, and you're going to be fired and the American and he ordered the special prosecutor fired the America, and to the attorney general resigned deputy attorney general resigned, and then Robert Bork's number three fired at the American people. Understood what was going on. They knew that the tapes could prove whether the whether the president of the United States had engaged in a cover up or whether John dean who led she'd been involved in the cover-up was lying who was telling the truth. They understood this, and they said congress you have to do something about it. And these were tapes that Richard Nixon had secretly ordered himself the thing of the White House. Correct. And so at that point the impeachment Corey started, we didn't know exactly where it was going to go. But that's when it started. And right now you have. The president of the United States who had weighed deliberately till after the midterm election. So it would have no adverse political impact on him to fire the turn general the United States. Why did he fire him? There's nothing that as Mr. call set has nothing that sessions did that was contrary to his political view. I mean, political agenda the president's political views or political agenda, except then he wouldn't take control and he wouldn't oversee and he wouldn't supervise and he wouldn't interfere with Muller's investigation. And that was a NASA to this president because this president just like Nixon wants to control the criminal process that's gonna take place against him and his friends, and that is if we go down that road, we're becoming a banana Republic that's not the United States of America where a country that's committed to the rule of law and the president cannot put his finger on the thumb on the scale his thumb on the scale of Justice. That's. Not going to happen. And if it does happen, then God helped merica, well, independent Senator Bernie Sanders has warned that any attempt at obstruction on Trump's part of -struction of the Russia probe would be an impeachable offense. He tweeted Wednesday, quote, any attempt by the president or the Justice department to interfere with Muller's probe would be an obstruction of Justice and an impeachable offense goes no question about that. That was the firing of by Richard Nixon. Of Archibald Cox special prosecutor to stop and squelch that investigation was one of the grants, but the impeachment vote against Richard Nixon. So it may not you don't even need to go much farther. I think than even the appointment of Mr. Whittaker because it seems a parent that Mr. Whitaker is there for one purpose, which is to control an interfere with this investigation. And that turns out to be an congress can investigate that. And if it turns out that the purpose was to interfere with this investigation that in and of itself becomes not only basis for becomes the basis for the removal and impeachment of Donald Trump. So Liz Holzman last week the national archives released documents from the Watergate scandal, including new information relating to the indictment against president Richard Nixon the draft documents known as the Watergate roadmap show plans to charge Nixon with bribery conspiracy. Obstruction of Justice and obstruction of a cr-. Criminal investigation. Nixon was never charged with crimes though, a number of his aides were and someone to jail the documents were released after a lawsuit requested they'd be made public citing their relevance for special counsel Robert Muller, if he decides to issue a report to congress as part of the ongoing probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with alleged Russian meddling in the two thousand sixteen election. So talk about you know, well, what this indictment was of Richard Nixon. Well, let's just make one point Richard Nixon was named by the grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator. That is the only time that's ever happened in the history of the United States. So the grand jury wanted to indict Richard Nixon this wasn't a hypothetical draft indictment. The grand jury said we want to indict Richard Nixon. They were told by the special prosecutor, you can indicted sitting president I don't necessarily agree with that. And so as an alternative they issued this they charged him as being an unindicted co-conspirator. But yes, the the roadmap pointed to these were criminal charges that we're going to be made against the president of the United States. And the supporting evidence impeachment is not a criminal proceeding impeachment is a civil proceeding by congress to preserve and restore our democracy doesn't require criminal standard of proof. It doesn't require any of the trappings of a criminal proceeding. What its purposes is to take a president who is a threat to democracy. And remove that president from office. That's what the framers put impeachment into the constitution for. And that's why the House Judiciary committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon in part because he obstructed the investigation into the break into the Watergate hotel complex, the Democratic National Committee headquarters and Donald Trump has done has tried to interfere with this investigation. He hasn't succeeded in in derailing, it he hasn't succeeded in stopping it. But he's put Whitaker. They're clearly the appearances to shut it down. And what does that mean? What if Whitaker shut it down or starved at a funds? What does Muller need to have in place now, and what would happen if he were fired could the indictments be made public? If there are some already sealed. Well, it's a very interesting question as to what would happen. I think we would have a national crisis. First of all if the American people. At that point don't rise up to protect our democracy. Then maybe nothing can preserve it. Because that's what happened in Watergate. The American people force congress Democrats who are in control Republican president. But the Democrats didn't wanna bring impeachment proceedings, Eric and people force them to do that. That's the critical point. Why didn't they because they were in a way? I mean, this is a very critical issue. I mean, Nancy Pelosi who said she's gonna write for house speaker Guinness famously said impeachment is off the table because it's an unknown process because the first time the congress ever did an impeachment of the president was against Andrew Johnson. And that was done in a partisan way. And it left a historical taint. We did the Nixon impeachment process. We did it in a bipartisan way, we did it in a fair way that should have given the American people a sense at this process works to preserve democracy. But then we had the Clinton impeachment which was again abusive power as as Andrew Johnson impeachment was, but the issue is the I I don't really I wasn't privy to why the speaker of the house and the majority leader Dempo Democrats did not want to proceed with impeachment proceedings until. The Saturday night massacre. I think it's because they just didn't know what was going to happen. The preceding itself was you know, had bad taint, historically, and they didn't have the public was gonna react. No, really take down president, Richard Nixon. Unlike Trump who squeaked through as in his election. Richard Nixon was elected with one of the biggest landslides in American history one thousand nine hundred ninety two nine hundred seventy two so for an impeachment to take place you'd have to change the minds of a majority of American voters, Democrats were sure that could ever happen. So they were worried about the political consequences for themselves instead of thinking about the country. But the American people demanded they said, congress you've got to protect our democracy, and congress did we didn't take knows camp before we started. We didn't even know what when I I remember we started the impeachment proceedings. Nobody even knew at a high crime and misdemeanor as what's the standard for impeachment. None of us had studied this. What happened in the end, why Nixon left Richard Nixon left because the House Judiciary committee proceeding in a nickel? Fair transparent open and bipartisan fashion voted that. He engaged in impeachable offenses, and ultimately every single Republican on the committee, initially when we voted there about eleven twelve Republicans who'd enjoin we had seven or eight who did. They when when there was a tape recording that was released that showed Nixon himself orchestrating the cover up from the very beginning. All the Republicans joined with all the Democrats and saying Richard Nixon should be impeached, including the most conservative at that point the handwriting was on the wall. It was cleared every single member of the House Judiciary committee, including conservative Republicans and conservative southern Democrats supported impeachment. The house is going to support impeachment overwhelmingly, and he would be removed vote convicted in the Senate and removed and he saw the handwriting on the wall. He didn't want that humiliation. It was bad enough that he had to resign became the first American president to resign. But it was because the process was fair open and won the respect of the American people many of home. Most of whom it's supported Richard Nixon in the election just a year and a half before. So it can be done. So Richard Nixon resigned and didn't get impeached. No. There was a vote to impeach in the House Judiciary committee. That was enough for Richard Nixon to get the message. He had to get out because otherwise he'd be forcibly removed by the house full house and the Senate. Well, let's go back to two sessions replacement. Matthew, Whitaker
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Supreme Court says Trump's travel ban is legal
"Revive year period making him the eighteenth highest prescriber in new york sloan pleaded not guilty at his arraignment today so as attorney says narcotics or appropriate for treating some kinds of chronic pain an accounting the pills prescribed is misleading and in new jersey governor murphy still has not reached a budget deal with the legislature lawmakers in his own party say the disagreement comes over murphy's plan to raise taxes but political columnist charlie style of the record newspaper says the fight dates back to the last election on the governor failed to defend senate president steve sweeney from attacks by the teacher's union this fostered the impression that murphy really wanted sweeney taken out and it lingers and so there is this bad blood between the two the budget deadline is june thirtieth tonight partly cloudy low around sixty four degrees currently seventy four degrees at five oh six support for npr comes from indeed used by over three million businesses for hiring where employers can post jobs and new screener questions to build their shortlist preferred candidates learn more at indeed dot com slash higher from npr news this is all things considered i'm mary louise kelley the us supreme court today upheld president trump's travel ban decision that grants braun power to the president on matters involving immigration and national security the vote was five to four with the courts conservatives pleasing policing few limits on presidential power in this regard the dissenting liberal justices accused the majority of making a historic mistake here's npr legal affairs correspondent nina totenberg just seven days after taking office president trump signed the first version of the travel ban leading to chaotic scenes in airports across the globe the first and second versions of the travel ban were struck down by the lower courts and today a five justice supreme court majority upheld version three writing for the majority chief justice john roberts said that the constitution and the existing federal laws grant exceptionally brought a thorough eighty to the president the language of the statute quote exudes deference to the president he said if the president finds that the entry of certain aliens would be detrimental to the interests of the united states they may be kept out of the country trump's twelve page proclamation in version three is more than enough to meet that standard he said especially when coupled with the elaborate administrative review that took place before enacting the third version of the ban turning to the challengers claim that the travel ban was based on an unconstitutional bias against muslims the chief justice did not dispute president trump's consistently anti muslim statements but he said the issue before us is not whether to denounce the statements it is instead whether those statements have any significance whether they ultimately matter in light of the neutral language adopted in version three the upshot of our precedents is clear robert said the court should not inhibit the president's flexibility in responding to changing world conditions and any court inquiry into matters of national security is highly constrained roberts declared that as long as the president presents an explanation for the travel ban that is quote plausibly related to a legitimate national security objective he is on firm constitutional ground at the white house president trump was jubilant calling the decision a tremendous victory for the american people the roy shows that all of the attacks from the democrat politicians are wrong but among national security experts across the political spectrum there was distinct disappointment john bellinger served in a variety of national security positions in the george w bush administration after nine eleven it's still a pig but the administration is but just enough lipstick on it too pretty for five of the nine justices the court majority he said focused more on the office of the presidency than on president trump the result is unfortunate but it's not surprising given that the third version of the travel ban has corrected enough of the legal deficiencies in the first two versions for the majority of the justices stop hold it david cole is legal director of the aclu today's decision is one of the courts historic failures to live up to its obligation to defend the rights of the most vulnerable from those who are most powerful and university of chicago constitutional law scholar as hook condemned the decision contending that because there was rare evidence in this case of a presidential bias against a single religious group today's court ruling marks a profound change and bob i think is a real shift in the law the.