as the journal said the threat of court packing is intended to make the justices think twice about rulings that progressives dislike. many of our legal friends think the threat has already had a notable impact on chief justice john roberts on gun rights and abortion cases. white house correspondent seven digging deeper into the commission. hi, kevin. good evening, shannon. the commission s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principle arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against supreme court reform, which is really a mouthful way of saying let s argue about changing the number of justices on the court for the first time in over 150 years. discussing possible changes to the supreme court including adding more justices. also known as court packing and possible term limits for justices. the panel is being asked to do a number take a number of steps including the pros and cons on exactly that issue. the constitution does not establish a set number
this kind of behavior, that s why we punish tax evasion, and also to protect the public, to make sure that someone who was a threat to the rest of us is no longer walking free. in this case, the prosecution didn t even explain how he defrauded the banks. after the banks lose money? i don t think they did. they didn t explain how much he should have paid in federal taxes but didn t, and i don t think there s a single person in america feels a physical threat or even a moral threat from 69-year-old paul manafort. they are not even pretending this isn t political. they are not. if they are, they are doing a really poor job and it really begs the question, talker, if the federal government and all the taxpayer assets that support it thought paul manafort was such a threat to the republic, why didn t they warn the trump team? barack obama was the president of the united states, not the democrat party. why didn t they warn the trauma team that this dangerous threat
that had to be put in
of something, he s guilty of helping donald trump win. and by the way, tucker, some of the same process crimes and suspicious activity mueller has accused manafort of, ironically enough, democrats accused of the same thing of people connected to democrats seem to have gotten up to this point a relativelyy free legal pass. tucker: even as a matter of appearances, would you, if youte were robert mueller, appoint as the lead prosecutor in a case against donald trump s former campaign manager, a hillary partisan who went to her victory party on election night? [laughs] tucker, this is a joke. they re not even hiding it. can i double down on you? how about this. andrew weissmann, yes, attended hillary s party. jeannie rhee, one of his lead prosecutors in the case represented the clinton foundation. aaron zebley, another. prosecutr in the case who is friendly with the whole mueller crew, represented one of the clinton
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