one member said we re not restricted as the department of justice is. think about what that statement is. the department of justice is restricted by the bill of rights. the bill of rights sets forth basic princeables of due process, thec right to confron your accuser, call witnesses in your defense. charges have to be supported by evidence, not gossip. you the right to appeal to the courts to protect these rights. yes, thees department of justic is restricted by the bill of rights, but our bill of rights with its due process restrictions restricts all of us who take the oath of office. that includes congress. we are restricted to respect these rights, also. only the majority is placing themselves above the supreme law of the land. the lawful exercise of executive power is simply not an impeachable offense. the president is responsible for faithfully f executing the laws.
should focus on the most serious and the present danger of the president of phosphorus conduct. this is the president attempting to coax a foreign leader to rig the election in his favor. this is exactly what the founders talked about when they spoke about high crimes and misdemeanors, the betrayal of the national interest to advance your own political and personal interests, things of the democratic caucus probably believe we should focus on, the most serious, the president endangering the integrity of our election in 2020. overwhelming evidence, uncontested martha: let me ask you about the overwhelming evidence, i m just reading a piece by jonathan turley who you disagree with as a republican witness, he said this to be the first impeachment to go forward with no credible or uncontested crime at its heart. what do you say that that? i disagree pick first of all the constitution of the united states is the supreme law
the supreme law of the land. how would our founding fathers feel about america and our political system today? here to weigh in is president of convention of states project, mark nice to be with you. pete: answer that question. i think they d be really disturbed and mainly because what they wanted to avoid was a heavily centralized federal government. they designed a system that would give the power to the people in the states, and that system has now been flipped on its head, most of the power in d.c. pete: the federal government is only supposed to do exactly what the constitution tells them. how did we get so out of whack? really primarily if i had to point at one thing, it s the supreme court. the supreme court has issued numerous decisions over the last 100 years that grossly expand the power of the federal government. pete: interesting. another challenge is individual citizens don t know enough about our system, we start to lose it. here s a couple of facts that are stark
misrepresentation. you know, whether that will matter to voters who are nominative, you know, i can t say, but i do think that this is an important learning opportunity for people to understand the complexity of identity, especially for indigenous peoples and what it means to firstly claim tribal citizenship, which is standing within a tribe, and then the distinguish between that and having some form of ancestry that many people in the united states can say they have. one more follow-up. then i ll come back to you, cornell. what were top issues today at this forum? so the top issues for indian country are treaty rights. there are over 300 treaties which are the supreme law of the land signed between the united states and federally recognized tribes. those treaties are founding
identity, especially for indigenous peoples and what it means to firstly claim tribal citizenship, which is standing within a tribe, and then the distinguish between that and having some form of ancestry that many people in the united states can say they have. one more follow-up. then i ll come back to you, cornell. what were top issues today at this forum? so the top issues for indian country are treaty rights. there are over 300 treaties which are the supreme law of the land signed between the united states and federally recognized tribes. those treaties are founding documents in the same way that the constitution is a founding document. right. because this country could not exist without those treaties. those are first and foremost on people s minds. the others include missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. particularly native women suffer from abnormally and grossly high