There are no kings or queens here. No one is above the law. The process of impeachment is really use because of its seriousness. This will be only the fourth time in our nations history that congress has considered the president ial impeachment process. Nixon,case of president he resigned instead of facing likely impeachment by the house and removal by the senate. It is a solemn responsibility. This congress with our existing authority under the constitution and the rules of the house is in the midst of an impeachment increase right now. No one runs for congress to impeach a president. We are here today because the facts compel us to be. Evidence thatus the president may have violated the constitution. Unlike during the impeachment of president nixon and clinton, no special prosecutor has been named to investigate President Trump on this. There is no single report from which this congress can make a decision whether or not to impeach President Trump on his dealings with ukraine. That i
Next, we will show the House Rules Committee meeting from yesterday to consider the rules for floor debate and possible amendments. The rules committee will come to order. This is a sad day. When our founders drafted the constitution more than 230 years ago, they included a process that could lead to removing a president from office if he or she abused their power. Americawhat separates from so many other nations. There are no kings or queens here. No one is above the law. The process of impeachment is rarely used because of its seriousness. This will be only the fourth time in our nations history that congress has considered the president ial impeachment process. That congress has considered the president ial impeachment process. Nixon,case of president he resigned instead of facing likely impeachment by the house and removal by the senate. It is a solemn responsibility. This congress with our existing authority under the constitution and the rules of the house is in the midst of an i
Between print books. We do a lot of reading all day in congress, so this one is an audiobook. Usually listen to write before i go to bed. About 20, 30 chapters into it and its just a chilling and gripping tale about the revolution and civil war in spain. What else is on your reading list . Well, i got a gift from representing jamie raskin for my birthday. Its wrestling with his angel i love a good link lincoln booi can go back and forth between fiction and history books. So looking for to reading that as my next one and appreciate congressman raskin interest in history. Okay. And i saw you at fire and fury on your desk. Are you reading that book . I i would go to that one already but thats more of a conversation piece. Working with a lot of issues right now and many of them relate to the administration or to the senate. So its on the desk, sort of stimulate dialogue. Is anything else you would like to share with us on your reading this . Sure. Im trying to get through the top american
Because there were not looking for evidence of a legislative intent to create a right to judicial review. Your position is thats already there under the apa. Unless there is evidence of a judicial intent, of a congressional intention to preclude judicial review . Thats exactly right. Thats the presumption created by the apa. The way that your honor articulated it is the way the Supreme Court has articulated it time and again. Thats the governments burden to show by clear and convincing evidence that congress intended to preclude our claims, not our burden to demonstrate that congress intended to create them. If i may, ill move on to the merits of our statutory claim. As i said before, our first claim is that section 215 simply does not apply to call records. In the same statute that congress enacted section 215, in 2001, it added a provision to the stored Communications Act prohibiting the government from acquiring phone records. It created i exceptions to that prohibition. But section
Instituted, this court had approved it. And there was this process of briefing in congress. And i dont think theres anything classified. You can tell me if it is and if you cant answer it. But could you just explain to me. If im a member of the congress, an ordinary member, not a member of some special committee, what exactly was i told . I dont mean what was in the classified briefing. What was i told about you better go read this before you vote for this. What memo did i get from whom . So, i think, there were memos from the chairs of the two intelligence committees. And they are in the joint appendix. They identified within the connection of the reauthorization, information has been provided by the im paraphrasing but information provided by the executive branch that was important for evaluation of the reauthorization of this authority in section 215. And it was up to me to go and figure out if it was worth it for me to go and read it as they were telling me i should. And i think of