Distance and fall other guidelines and regulations so thank you for your patience and following those. We have here today judge jeff sutton, he flew in last night, right through the storm, and so were grateful his flight made it here safely and were able to have this event today. Judge sutton is a judge of the u. S. Court of appeals for the six inch circuit where the served since 2003. Nominated by george w. Bush. He is a former solicitor general of ohio, hes been in private practice, has clerked for several judges, including justice ask Justice Scalia, the subject of his new book. The title of the occasion today is essentialal scalia. Were all about scalia in this chapter. Judge sutton revved hi ba from William College and law degree from the ohio state university. Chair of the federal Judicial Conference Committee on the rules of practice and procedure, appointed to that position by chief justice john roberts. He has taught constitutional law and other legal sums at a number of unive
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Ruled in favor of the das office and the subpoena. But they also remanded the case back to the lower courts for additional consideration. This is an hour and 20 minutes. We will hear from trump the vance. The way we will proceed is that each side will have on interrupted arguments. Then there will be questioning in order of that with judge lavalle first then me and then judge. You will begin and you have reserved three minutes for a rebuttal. Thank you your honor and good morning. Good morning. And may it please the court, on remand the president filed and raised two claims, first that the subpoena and overbroad fishing expedition. And second that it was issued in bad faith in order to harass the president. The District Attorney concedes the Supreme Court is author of the president bring these claims in federal court on remand. The only issue then, on appeal, is whether the allegations of bad faith or plausible. The District Courts determination that they are not could be reversed for
The court heard arguments from the president s attorney in the manhattan District Attorneys office. The central issue surrounds the subpoena for the president s finances as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct i the president s company, the Trump Organization. This is the second time this case has appeared before the court. The first was in october of 2019. It ended up before the u. S. Supreme court in may of 2020 and the justices ultimately ruled in favor of the das office and subpoena. But also remanded the case back to the lower courts for additional consideration. This is one hour and 20 minutes. 20 minutes. We will hear from trump the vance. The way we will proceed is that each side will have on interrupted arguments. Then there will be questioning in order of that with judge lavalle first then me and then judge. You will begin and you have reserved three minutes for a rebuttal. Thank you your honor and good morning. Good morning. And may it please the court, on remand
Interrupted arguments. Then there will be questioning in order of that with judge lavalle first then me and then judge. You will begin and you have reserved three minutes for a rebuttal. Thank you your honor and good morning. Good morning. And may it please the court, on remand the president filed and raised two claims, first that the subpoena and overbroad fishing expedition. And second that it was issued in bad faith in order to harass the president. The District Attorney concedes the Supreme Court is author of the president bring these claims in federal court on remand. The only issue then, on appeal, is whether the allegations of bad faith or plausible. The District Courts determination that they are not could be reversed for several reasons. First, the court stacked the deck against the president by serving these president s are disguised attempt to re litigate category community. The District Attorney also concedes they claim they are no not. The clot plausibility standard to be