Eastern areas, cloud, Light Rain In The South East and a cool wind along the south east and a cool wind along the north sea coast. More later. Its tuesday the 23rd of april. Asylum seekers who enter the uk illegally could be sent to rwanda after a Government Bill finally made it through parliament in the early hours, after months of delays. It declared the african country to be safe. The bill will become law within the next few days and the Prime Minister has said the first flights will leave the uk in ten to 12 weeks. Human Rights Groups described the plan as shameful. Our Political Correspondent ben wright has the details. Long after most people had gone to bed, parliament carried on working, wrestling with the issue of sending Asylum Seekers to rwanda. The governments plan had faced strong resistance in the House Of Lords. They voted for changes mps kept rejecting. My lords, this bill has now been scrutinised a number of times. The government have rejected this amendment several tim
only has the nixon pardon ended president ford s honeymoon with the congress in general, could cause problems in the republican party. it did. the problems got worse. keep in mind just as we analyze this on the basics of history, incumbent presidents usually win. we are the current president, in white house, have a lot of advantages that random citizen running against them does not. president ford did not win re-election. he was the first incumbent president to lose since 1932. which was back during the great depression. many saw ford s pardon as simply continuing the republican party s terrible nixon crime problem rather than taking the chance to break with it. now, as a matter of justice, the pardon interfered with the process to hold nixon accountable. as a matter of politics, the pardon dragged down the republican party long after this pardon first came out as you can see on the screen in september 1974.
you re on bill c, donald trump s campaign calendar is about to collide with his legal calendar. we ll have the latest on the twice impeached, twice indicted ex presidents suppressing legal entanglement. plus, the stroke of opinion september 1974 led to one unrepentant ex president off the hook but it might have also helped set the stage for a dangerous behavior of another unrepentant ex president. my friend is here to talk about why black ownership is media s so we re, and why representation matters, not just on screen, but in ownership, as well. then, today s featured offer in the velshi banned book club says the sex education that includes a same-sex couple is, quote, institutional homophobia. so she did something about it. she wrote this book is gay. a funny informative crucial
fault. he went to the weaponization language. thereby, pre-judging the case, and not allowing the country to have the oxygen to deal with something on its own merits, facts. merits, instead, once again, it is an episode in this ongoing reality show, that trump has programed, in which all of us are characters, willing or not. that was disappointing. the rule of law, that is the whole thing. we were talking a minute ago about nixon? it is significant question here about what the president ford on that sunday morning in september, 1974, should in fact have pardoned nixon. didn t create the sense that a president was above the law?
pennsylvania that had been a very serious domestic insurrecti insurrection. he used the pardon power to try to heal the country. andrew johnson, in reconstruction, issued a pardon to those who had taken up arms against the country during the civil war. i would argue that president ford s september 1974 highly politically costly pardon of president nixon was an attempt to heal the country. this is an attempt to secure a base, to pardon this sheriff for the charges for which he was convicted does not seem to me on the surface to be about sending a signal that the country will move forward. quite the opposite, it strikes me as an effort to say to a