executive privilege argument, that at least the attorneys must know hold no water, but it seems clear, especially with the number the committee has investigated that this is going to be a fulsome, thorough kpfgs examination. joyce, back to the judge s comments. what meaning did you attach to her words when federal judges appointed for life speak? it s important we pay attention. and also, if i can, a second part. what do you make of the importance of a second new york grand jury? well, i think the judge was very clear when she spoke in this case indicating that ultimately there was a balancing test that had to happen in this
so the petitioners here are arguing in that sense this new york gun law infringes on the second amendment. guys, we heard from justice amy conan barrett. she is one of the newest to watch here. both of them who pins, in these arguments, they said to look to the founder s intent when weighing these gun restrictions, not necessarily a balancing test of individual rights over government officials wanting to put these into place. this the a high stakes case the first time, the supreme court hearing a case in touching this in more than a decade. a lot at stake hear, thank you. still ahead arc runoff to replace a democratic darling, who is poised to take the reigns?
those tariffs were instituted by president trump as a punishment against china. president biden has said standing up to china is a major line of his foreign policy. how do you weigh those two things, trying to cut costs to american consumers and american manufacturers by lifting tariffs, or is that a favor to china? that s a balancing test that s been so far been resolved in favor of being tough with china. good change if the pressure keeps mounting on inflation. folks can t get christmas trees. john harwood, thanks very much. that worsening supply chain crisis means american consumers are paying p ho ing more for a bunch of things ranging from used cars to children s shoes. perhaps most noticeably, every day at the gas pump. on average americans are paying $16 more every time they fill up the tank. that s $16 more than what they were paying last year at this time. cnn business and politics
the supreme court addressed this issue in 1977. didn t decide it, but they said the former president actually does have potentially a limited interest in exerting executive privilege, but they also said that in the majority of cases, the current president is going to be the one who s in best position to make the decision on executive privilege. if you look at precedent, we have seen current precedents exercise. george w. bush did it for bill clinton. barack obama did it for george w. bush. however, those cases were different because the prior presidents weren t objecting and going to court. privileges about protecting the institution of the presidency and not an individual. even if donald trump had the ability to raise executive privilege, it can t be used to hide charges or wrong doing. the court s going to have to do that balancing test. so it s a real uphill climb for trump. another viewer wants to know can a person who defies a
and as i said earlier it s been chipped away at, it s been defined a little bit. but we have a lot of things we haven t seen before really in combination. we have an ex-president. seeking to block information, not just from his close government circle but from people who were never in government like steve bannon and to the extent he s seeking to do a preliminary or preemptive block, that s not exactly what executive privilege is about, it s about a balancing test, looking at the actual information requested and balancing it against congress s need for the information. it was really a jeff sessions who started the idea of saying, well, the president might assert executive privilege so i m going to decline to answer. we are still gnat nascent stages to find out what exactly executive privilege is, even though it s been around since at least the nixon era and even when president truman asserted