that s going to do it for me today. deadline: white house starts now. hi everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trump s claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months long push to get the charges against him dismissed. in their ruling, the judges make the point that while donald trump is a former president of the united states, he is in the eyes of the law, just another criminal defendant. for the purposes of this criminal case, frp has become citizen trump with all the any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him in this prosecution. prosecuting presidents for things they did in office would have
we re going to get our first public glimpse of princess catherine since christmas. what the palace said today about her cancer battle and her plans to try and resume some of her royalty duties. but leading this hour yesterday, today and for the next two weeks, the us supreme court will dominate the political conversation in this country. today, it s a major guns decision. the justices ruling six to three to strike down a federal ban on bump stocks. the ban was initially approved by donald trump 2018 after the massacre at a las vegas music festival, you might remember a gunman killed 58 people at the outdoor concert when he set up perch on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and open fire for at least ten minutes by the time police breached the room, they say the shooter was dead, but they found 23 weapons in the room 12 with firearms, with bump stocks attached. that attack, by the way, is the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. so i know some of you are p
Environmental groups have filed suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over its approval of a pipeline that will wind through mostly poor and Black Middle Tennessee communities to supply methane gas to a new Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Clarksville. The Sierra Club and Appalachian Voices are asking the United States Court of […] The post Environmental groups sue federal agency over Middle Tennessee pipeline approval appeared first on Tennessee Lookout.
confirmation as attorney general mr. garland was a judge of the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit and appointed to that position in 1997 served as chief judge of the circuit from 2013 to 2020 and served as chair of the executive xity of the judicial conference of the united states from 2017 to 2020. in 2016 president obama nominated him for the business of associate justice of the united states supreme court. before that he spent a substantial part of his professional life at the department of justice. including a special assistant to the attorney general assistant united states attorney and principal associate deputy attorney general. earlier in his career he was in private practice and also taught at harvard law school. both his undergraduate and law degrees from harvard. he clerked from the united
corker is going to wait to see. it looks like they don t have the votes. then mitch mic council has to go to democrats in up for election in states that president trump won. the more democrats that start to say no or may be, right, brian, the more difficult that job will be for mitch mcconnell. i also have to say this. judge kavanaugh has had six full fledged fbi investigations. four for his time in the bush white house, for his job and each time he got a higher level of security of clearance. one for the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit on which he sits now. second highest court in the land one for his nomination to the supreme court. this didn t come out at all. i have had two of these. i know how thorough they are. i couldn t believe the stuff they found out about me. so it is hard for me to believe that this thing as