Elected, they were ready and they launched hundreds of conservative nominees all at once. There were plenty of vacancies for them to fill because republicans had all those seats opened. Republican haves been running those nominees through like a factory made chocolates on a conveyer belt. They got to hurry through as many of these nominations as they can. On july 19th, despite this well oiled if fairly frantic system, one of their judicial nominees failed. His name is ryan bounds. The Trump Organization nominated him one level below the u. S. Supreme court court. Again, in general republicans in the senate have been ramming through trumps nominees by the fistful. This ryan bounds no, maminati
school as this guy at the same time. I remember those fights. In despite the fact that he tried to hide those writings from the senate, his nomination did appear to be on track and get confirmed through senate anyway. Senator tim scott decided he was not okay for this guy and not willing to vote o
And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
danya and andrew, i found this to be a shocking revelation here. i don t know whether i should put my eyes back in my head here. the suggestion that a trump affiliated lawyer did not recuse himself or get off of this case for, a, a conflict of interest here. but that, b, the minute yuscil taveras no longer has trump lawyer, he flips. how do you read this, andrew? so, i think the reference to cassidy hutchinson is such a good one. i think it educate people on what is happenisng here in this case. as danya and i know, and our jaded, this happens in the special counsel mueller investigation. it happened in enron. it happened in organized crime cases. this is a standard problem when you re a prosecutor of house counsel. and the problem that money buys
two defense lawyer in the mueller investigation, i know that that brief is for an audience, but it s not for this audience. they were very strong argument. obviously, the judge on the 28th, has a really important decision. and the defendant is entitled to enough time to prepare an adequate defense. one other quick point, in the eastern district of virginia, the so-called rocket docket, it is commonplace to have trials in three, four, five months after indictment. that has never been challenged. it is understood to be within the due process clause, as adequate time. so, here, the time proposed by jack smith is longer than that. judge chutkan and has that as an ability, knows it will not go within the do process clause, the real issue is whether she thinks it s enough time, and fair. january 2nd is the date that the federal prosecutors have put. the reason you may see on your screen, it ain t tolstoy, is because that s basically part of the defense.
mueller investigation, i know that that brief is for an audience but it s not for this audience. yeah. so i think they have a very strong argument. obviously, though, the judge on the 28th has a really important decision, and the defendant is entitled to enough time to prepare an adequate defense. one other quick point. in the eastern district of virginia, the so-called rocket docket, it is commonplace to have trials in three, four, five months after indictment. that has never been challenged. it is understood to be within the due process clause as adequate time. so here the time that s been posed by jack smith is longer than that. so judge chutkan has that ability, knows it will not reverse in the due process clause. the real issue is whether she thinks it ll be enough time. the reason you might see on your screens it ain t tolsociety