distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of the way so that you can hear from them and not me. but i, want to take a minute to begin with two things that may reside more in the category of pet peeves than scholarly discussion that you are about to hear from our guests. one is that clarence thomas should ve recused himself from this case because everyone on that bench today knew, clarence thomas s wife was there. she was there, she was present when donald trump incited engaged in insurrection. the essence of our case is president trump s o
from his time as even a senator. but vice a sen, vice president w been made public. that report, it is beyond. e fae biden just tried to save face with the american publicwi. it was a shocking display of his cognitive decline. we re going to play those outrageous remarks in a minute. but let s lay out the details in this report. devastating, according to the report, quote, president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vicey when presidency when he was a private citizen. investigatore was s found classd documents, including notebooks from meetingsifieds regarding hy sensitive material on foreign policy and national security, sy security carelessly stored in what appears to b ie his garage. and while what the special counsel found about biden ss handling of classified documents was alarming , what itsays a says about his cognitive statebo is quite frankly, shocking. and by the way, it should have every single american concerned about the mental
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