Theres a lot of commentary, some people saying its a win for congress and the prosecutors, some for trump, what do you think . Well, it is a split decision and frankly it was john roberts finest day, a lot of controversy, here he managed to hold together two 72 coalitions, alito and thomas were sort of with him in general, they meanted even more basically. The cases will now continue. Its not a slam dunk that we are going to see the tax returns tomorrow or anything like that, and effectively pushes it past the election, but the really thread of the needle in min takenning the balance among separation of powers between legislative and executive branches as well as federalism with state inquiries into the federal executive. Paul i think i disagree with you. What i worry about is what alito talked about, 2200 local prosecutors, a lot of them politically motivated. The courts did set up standards but i wonder how strict they are going to be and how strict local strict federal judges and ot
Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. Today they often find before they can make any ch
Headquarters. Im eric sean. Molly im molly line, in for arthel neville. President trump tweeting this morning, roger stone was targeted by an illegal witch hunt that never should have taken place. Ist is the other side that are criminals, including obama and biden who spied on my campaign and got caught. The president s decision is facing criticism from top lawmakers on capitol hill. It occurred to me is what occurred to most americans, if you lie for the president , if you cover up for the president , if you withhold information that could incriminate the president , he will protect you. He will make sure that unlike other people you dont have to go to jail. Molly Mark Meredith is live at the white house with more on all of this as it unfolds. Mark. Reporter good afternoon. Its not just adam schiff speaking out of, were hearing from a number of lawmakers who are upset about the decision to commute roger stones sentence. He was going to go to jail next week to start the 40 months behin
Theres a lot of commentary, some people saying its a win for congress and the prosecutors, some for trump, what do you think . Well, it is a split decision and frankly it was john roberts finest day, a lot of controversy, here he managed to hold together two 72 coalitions, alito and thomas were sort of with him in general, they meanted even more basically. The cases will now continue. Its not a slam dunk that we are going to see the tax returns tomorrow or anything like that, and effectively pushes it past the election, but the really thread of the needle in min takenning the balance among separation of powers between legislative and executive branches as well as federalism with state inquiries into the federal executive. Paul i think i disagree with you. What i worry about is what alito talked about, 2200 local prosecutors, a lot of them politically motivated. The courts did set up standards but i wonder how strict they are going to be and how strict local strict federal judges and ot
Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your thoughts on that . Yeah, i think the other thing was that was the beginning of the statement, at the end of the statement he mentioned that the people in his department and him are committed to advancing the rule of law and i think that was a very important thing too because hes basically suggesting there that donald trump is trying to get the Justice Department to do his bidding is trying to avoid the rule of law, rule of man rather than rule of law, i think Jeff Sessions had strong words there