others. is schiff s surveillance of political opponents its own abuse of power. we re back with dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgern. how did schiff get these records and have we ever had a skis case where a congressman did this to someone else in congress? no, this is an unprecedented abuse of power. the way he did it, he sent a subpoena to telephone carriers. he did not alert the people who were the subject of these subpoenas to the fact that he was seeking their telephone records this way. republicans knew what that the subpoena had gone out but they were barred because this happened in the intelligence committee from saying anything about it publicly. and the phone carriers decided rather than litigate this, which would have been the proper thing to do, given the stakes an begin how seriously intrusive this was, they didn t. they just rolled over and handed him the records. paul: this was so-called
gorsuch called a late breaking effort to avoid constitutional review. we re back with dan henninger, kim strassel and allysia finley. could the court drop the case because the ordinance has been repealed? no. the supreme court hasn t heard a gun rights case for nearly a decade and it is important, as the state and local laws that restrict gun rights proliferate for the court to provide some kind of guidance to lower courts so the standard review and in this case upholngnghe right to transport your gun outside of the home. paul: these actions stipulate are licensed firearms, not illegal firearms. you have a license in new york to keep it in your home. it s hard to get a license. they re saying you couldn t take it outside the city. you can t take it to a second home, they re saying you should get a second gun for a second home. you couldn t take it to a shooting range, the second
the people who were so important to getting nancy pelosi the gavel, in a very awkward position and this also raises some real problems. they can t go too far with articles of impeachment or they risk losing some of those members too. paul: thanks, kim. when we get back, impeachment and the constitution. what we learned from this week s testimony from four legal scholars and the risks posed to the separation of powers from the process playing out on capitol hill. it s a perfect storm. you set a r short 3erd period, a huge amount of information and when the president goes to when the president goes to court, you
of his office by pressuring ukraine to announce investigations beneficial to his re-election l campaign and obstructed congress when he ordered witnesses to defy subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry. let s bring in columnist and deputy editor dan henninger and kim extrakim strassel and big b. the report said the president abused his power in a way that jeopardized national security and the intel gritty of our elections inte integrity of r elections. did it jeopardize security? even in the worst case scenario, if you believe he threatened to do this paul: the way it was provided. the way it was provided. it s interesting that the witnesses against him support the policy i think you and i would support of lethal weaponry for ukraine which was stronger than the policy he inherited.
paul: from barack obama. i m in the camp where it was unseemly but not criminal or impeachable. paul: kim, what about the integrity of elections point? that s a key argument that the democrats are making. well, look, i think the problem with that argument is if you go back and you i mean, when bill clinton, the whole scandal over foreign contributions to his campaign, was this undermining the election scenario, this is a different standard that they re holding donald trump to here and, again, every time you talk to a foreign leader, if you are in theory getting some policy benefit, if it also helps you personally, if you re going to claim that that is interfering in our elections, then every single president is constantly interfering in the election by everything they do in foreign policy. paul: of course, we didn t the president didn t know how any announcement of an