outstanding supreme court decisions. joining me now to talk about all of them as we wait for them to come down, cnn chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin. i want to start on a case that is so consequential. explain this for the power of the administrative state and the executive branch to delegate its power. congress passes laws. i think everybody knows that. but laws are generally phrased in fairly general terms. and we have administrative agencies that translate those laws into rules that individuals and companies must follow. the question in the west virginia case is how much deference, how much do we allow the administrative agencies to interpret the laws that congress gives them. there s a doctrine of law called the chevron deference where court has said if it s reasonable, we will allow administrative agencies to interpret congress s statutes. what conservatives have been fighting for in recent years is for the supreme court to say, no, we
Thank you so, right now you are looking at capitol hill. That is the peoples house, the place where you would expect the people that you elected to legislature actual priorities. Your number one is supposed to be there number one. Let me ask how many of you out there had is your top priority nancy pelosi getting kicked out of her office in the Capitol Building . Short of hands . Anyone . Anyone . I did not think so. But tonight, at cnn, how speaker, mccarthy, was behind the interim speaker, Patrick Mchenry cups move to pick former house speaker, nancy pelosi, out of her office space. It is things like this that drive voters crazy. You are telling me that within hours of throwing out a speaker with no clear succession plan, 44 days away from yet another manufactured check in, with concerns over the economy looming, the border, National Security, funding for ukraine, with all of that, that was the priority . This is what we call the disconnect. Shouldnt the First Priority be, well, to fu
Charge. The truth is in the history of this republic, theres never been a single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against a president like the one thats being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That, as weve said many times today, is actually quite common. And by the way, lets remember it needs to be noted again that President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight you are listening to one of the many hours of todays very Historic House Judiciary Committee hearing on the articles of impeachment against president donald trump. Our live continuing coverage will take place over this hour and further hours as needed. But we want to let you know how were going to cover this. Were keeping an eye on this hearing. We have reason to believe there could be a vote on the current amendment soon. The committees obviously been going full s
A single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against the president like the one being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That as we said many times today is actually quite common. By the way, lets remember, noted again, President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight and investigation responsibilities. I noticed the statistics this morning when we started, there were 25 Administration Officials that testified before the House Oversight this year and 25 at the House Judiciary Committee. At the start of the Impeachment Inquiry the white house produced more than 100,000 pages of documents to the oversight committee. In spite of their allegations, the democrats know President Trump has a lawful cause to challenge the subpoenas because they involve direct wln are
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I encourage people to ask questions. I believe there are only two “stupid” questions in the world: The one you don’t ask and the one you ask three times. Questions are important. We cannot truly learn unless we ask questions. Several weeks ago I posted the article The Role of Congress.