one case came to us, hamdan, and the question was, was the prosecution unlawful because the crime of which he was convicted was not an identified crime as of 2001, when he was alleged to have committed it. expose facto principles. i wrote the opinion, reversing his conviction, even though it was a signature prosecution of the united states. even though it was a national security case. because that was the right answer under the law. it doesn t matter who you are or where you come from. if you re right under the law, you prevail. i d like to turn now to your work under the bush administration. as you know, my democratic colleagues are demanding to see every piece of paper or every single scrap of paper you ever touched during your six years in the bush administration. in part, because they want to
under the principles. one of the important things to keep in mind about roe v. wade is that it has been reaffirmed many type times over the past years, as you know. and most prominently, most importantly, reaffirmed in planned parenthood versus casey in 1992. as you well recall, senator, i know, when that case came up, the supreme court didn t just reaffirm it in passing. the court specifically went through all the factors in considering whether to overrule it. the joint opinion of justice kennedy, justin occe o connor, justice su justice sutter went through that. i ve sat on nine of these hearings. when the subject comes up, the person says, i will follow star
am i crazy it s just wildly inappropriate? wildly inappropriate to send, to the official government employee scheduler accepted a message to the ceo of chick-fil-a about an exciting business opportunity in which you then pitch a franchise for your wife when are you a cabinet secretary? don t you just love his response by the way, sure, we love chick-fil-a. we need more of that in this country. it s all about the chain. not just in this country, back in oklahoma. there s no doubt it s wildly inappropriate and everything you ve mentioned, he s got an ethics an avalanche of ethics problems. as paul is suggesting, you know, does it cross over into criminality? we re looking at the mcdonald case which is kind of similar. you may remember, governor mcdonald was under financial pressure brought by his wife to kind of generate business opportunities. what he s going to, had, there been a straightout you give me
inappropriate? wildly inappropriate to send, to the official government employee scheduler accepted a message to the ceo of chick-fil-a about an exciting business opportunity in which you then pitch a franchise for your wife when are you a cabinet secretary? don t you just love his response by the way, sure, we love chick-fil-a. we need more of that in this country. it s all about the chain. not just in this country, back in oklahoma. there s no doubt it s wildly inappropriate and everything you ve mentioned, he s got an ethics an avalanche of ethics problems. as paul is suggesting, you know, does it cross over into criminality? we re looking at the mcdonald case which is kind of similar. you may remember, governor mcdonald was under financial pressure brought by his wife to kind of generate business opportunities. what he s going to, had, there been a straightout you give me or my wife a chick-fil-a
question in terms of recent developments of supreme court kind of narrowing the law in this area. how does that play out given those recent court rulings? one of the developments was to make it the prosecutors have to prove an explicit quid pro quo if is bribe is in the form of of a campaign contribution. developers prosecutors say how can we be expected to prove a case where the bribe is campaign donation because no one will be dumb enough to make a explicit quid pro quo. today i say exhibit a is mulvaney. it s incredible he was willing to go on the record for something like this. the other problem is the other narrowing of the law has been to say from 2016 in the mcdonald case that it s not good enough to have a meeting. a meeting does not count as the official act that s exchanged for the bribe. you have to have more. what i would look for there if