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
is alligator votes bombing northern mexicino, shooting migrants in the legs and an in theing the fence left, losing it over the border crisis. but don t worry, vigilantes are on the move. i just want to apologize to any one who is listening. congress needs to get it done. another or what? joy reid s hot mic tellss us us about the media. america america s number one crime drama is now soft on crime. w we re acutely aware of the systemice inequities that exisi within the criminal justice system. pluminaljustice system.s, al, good or bad, have had nicknames. john adamr bad,s was called d sink or swim. no relation. andrew jackson was calledrew jap knife for his fighting style. zachary taylor old roughleosevel and ready for being rough on the battlefield. teddy roosevelt. tellt, a scoop, teddy for always having a little telescope mounted on his rifle. they of course, there was bill clinton. they called him slick willie for being a littlek willie for . and there wa
in decline, and yet they go after a popular president,identa a president that they got more votes than any sittinguntr president in the history of our country by far. byand then much better the seco time in the election than the first. and they go after hi gm on a bo, his house just like the russia, russia, russia hoax and all of the others. this has been going on for seven years. thing onand they can t stop bece it s election interference aeytv the highest level. there s never been anything like what s happened. i m an innocener bee what t man. and i m an innocent person. they had the mueller hoax, the mueller report an person., t came out. no collusion after two and a half years that was set up by hillary clinton and democrat . but this is what they do.s this is what they dowhaty do so. if they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity, they would be a lot better for our country. they could do a lot better. they could do a lo.t of great oa things. now, on true so
patalings and his son hunter s business dealings. earlier today, the house oversight committee issued a subpoena for an fbi documentbr . according to a whistleblower, the document links president biden to a, quote, criminal scheme involving, quote, money for policy decisions when he was vicee wa president . we still don t know what other countries were involved, but sources say it was not china.wht what s als io interesting is thm document is from june 2020. that means months before a presidential election, the fbi may have known of joe biden s potential involvemens joet in his son s business dealings. so did they bury this story?d we and if true, n we now havend the several examples of democrats in the media moving the goalposts to protect joe biden. t to prote so first it was the laptop. wasn t real, then it was . but there s no connection to joe. what will be their excuso e? g s now, a man a has been following this all as highly is a u.s. senator from the state of missouri
justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime