[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, thank you all who have made it this long. You guys are the real lovers of the constitution here. This panel is supposed be a little bit more laidback and were talking about the term ahead which is slated to start in just a few weeks. And although they terms are usually filed by quite once at the court, according to the brilliant and fascinating article written by wen fa and are joined that may not be true this year. We might get another big term. Here to talk about our wen fa and cate stetson. Wen fa is director of Legal Affairs at the beacon institute. Prior to joining beacon he was a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal foundation what he litigated two Supreme Court cases. When asked him for a fun fact about himself, he reminded me that he wants beat our own tommy berry in a standup comedy competition. I wasnt there so i remember it. But what wen didnt mention is that wen was the judge, so here cate s
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Residential campaign, and potential collusion between russian operatives and the Trump Campaign manager this runs 4. 5 hours. Has anything on what i am talking about, she would get whatever time she wants. From my regular opening statement, i needed to talk about a serious threat to this committees Oversight Authority briefly. The need for congress to have access to information in the several branch is inherent in the constitution. It access so clearly and foratedly permit executive Branch Agencies cannot limit our legislative power of inquiry merely by entering into nondisclosure agreements with one another. That is exactly what the fbi has tried to do. Yesterday i sent a pair of letters about the most recent example. Nondisclosure agreements are essentially gagged orders. Transparency, accountability, and seek congressional oversight. Os see, not a appointedprosecutor by the department of justice like mr. Mueller. Following complaints, the office of special counsel will open a specia
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First congress on each occasion the founders coated for a single individual rather than a plurality of the presidency of the structure best calculated to ensure a strong and vigorous and accountable executive the president alone shall take care of the law shall be faithfully executed that obligation according to James Madison in the Supreme Court just seven years ago with Free Enterprise and powers of president to keep them accountable to hold the power to remove them from office. Didnt that change with humphreys executor . That case that i just quoted was Free Enterprise that was many years later than humphreys executor but the Free Enterprise fund made it clear that there have been exceptions that the court has determined not to revisit with the Free Enterprise fund but there has been exceptions under narrow circumstances but that experiment by congress to take power away from the president are limited to those exceptions. And those that are uniquely diminished. Tavis is any worse th