Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for the proposition that Nation
New chairs please do said the major now since our last consultation of the commentators Political Drama in the u. K. Has finally reached the surreal stage this is the woman of the moment to cheer on a charity i say the Supreme Court on tuesday this is vice given to her majesty the queen was on lawful his position is untenable and he should have the guts for wants to do the decent thing and resign the government attempted a poor going against parliament and ended up facing a Parliamentary Committee against the government with the commons once again seizing control of legislation to relight a no would you break that Boris Johnson spangle a dominant cummings leaves us not pledging trap for the opposition who probably refused to walk into it leaving the Prime Minister hi im try when parliament resumed early this month he had a bare majority now after a purge of a year to files it is in a minority of over 40 now johnson has become the 1st ever. U. K. Prime ministers to lead her majesty the
A minority of over 40 now johnson has become the 1st ever u. K. Prime ministers to lead her majesty the queen herself into illegality his position as Prime Minister now heinz by a trade however as this weeks conference is made clear the Opposition Labor Party is also still full of the wool bricks it in contrast levels of the s. N. P. Should have a spring in their step but can they really stop breaks at the thought of the seams the pull to be done except for the Prime Minister to buckle down and actually try and pull off for you to deal if intends to meet the hard how low we did like it is either do a deal or die in the last ditch even for the high wire politician like Boris Johnson this would hardly seem the moment to risk defying the courts by ignoring parliamentary legislation survival itself will be difficult enough without jumping headlong into the fort all these little parties technics resulted probably resuming unexpectedly yes. With the m. P. Who kicked off the Court Proceedings