engine charlie wilson to help him. but that aside, the president in a sense is whipsawing himself. in one sense he s saying this thing is going faster, i want to do it immediately. that buttresses the standing and ripeness of the matter for el paso county and its co-plaintiffs. on the other hand, he s also suggesting the bogus nature of this emergency. i want to just harken to something that larry tribe just said. we re not unhappy in the 5th circuit. sure, there are plenty of conservative judges that are sitting, but the position that we re arguing constitutionally is a fundamentally conservative one. as i suggested to professor tribe this afternoon, i d expect james madison and alexander hamilton to be on our side if they were around today. this strikes at the heart of what the framers were attempting to do, which was to prevent the concentration of power and a turn toward the tyranny that was
eisenhower wanted to build the interstate highway system faster than we did, but they built it when they could as fast as they could. you could say that about an awful lot of federal building projects, we d like to build it faster. well, the president has no engine charlie wilson to help him. but that aside, the president in a sense is whipsawing himself. in one sense he s saying this thing is going faster, i want to do it immediately. that buttresses the standing and ripeness of the matter for el paso county and its co-plaintiffs. on the other hand, he s also suggesting the bogus nature of this emergency. i want to just harken to something that larry tribe just said. we re not unhappy in the 5th circuit. sure, there are plenty of conservative judges that are sitting, but the position that we re arguing constitutionally is a fundamentally conservative one. as i suggested to professor tribe this afternoon, i d expect james madison and alexander
the issue here is not only about honesty in government or corruption. it s about national security. who would have thought, i never did, that i d be on the steps of a courthouse trying to enforce the emoluments clause against the president of the united states. it s never happened before because presidents have obeyed the law. donald trump never divested himself from his companies, his children allegedly run them and he keeps his stake. i want to bring in the senator to discuss all of this. senator bloomenthal joins me on a busy day for you and your co-plaintiffs. why was it important to take this extra measure? you have powers in the senate.
missed your program, we ve been working for months on the ground. unlikely. we ve been working for months on the ground to recruit, identify, and outreach those who may be affected. there are many folks in pennsylvania who, a, don t know about this law and, b, if they do, they re making an assumption that they have proper i.d. so as we re going door-to-door with a variety of groups on the ground to have the same interests we do to ensure pennsylvanians can exercise their constitutional right to vote, we re not assuming and taking their word at face value even if they genuinely think they have what they need. we ll ask to see it and if it is not in conformity, we ll make sure we get them squared away so they can vote this fall. judith, the supreme court, the pennsylvania state supreme court will hear the case on september 13th, which is 64 days before the election. if they rule against your organization and your co-plaintiffs, is there any further recourse or is that the
to sue in united states courts to be able to collect money for compensation for their physical and mental injuries. and that pathway is also something you could help him reclaim some funds to get himself literally back on his feet again. how is that going legally? well, it s going well and in a sense that daniel and his co-plaintiffs have received a judgment from the courts, iran has been held liable and responsible for the terrorist acts that maimed daniel. there s a judgment against iran. but we re trying to find iran s assets so that we can collect on the judgment and the courts with the help of the united states government have been resisting and helping iran hide their assets in the united states. it s really inexplicable that the united states government is taking the side of iran as opposed to the side of its own citizens who were victims of terrorists. what s it like being in the courtroom seeing the justice department fight for the other