russia s brutal war and his visit, russia s former president, former foreign minister, former president dimitri medvedev has reacted publicly stating kishida has shown a complete subservience to the u.s. and should ritually disembowel himself, which i admit is a little harsh to be discussing on sunday morning tv. we will have more on russia s war in the chaos inside russia in a few minutes, with russia s foreign foreign minister, but first, back to the brief history lesson i brought up, because japan is interesting for another important reason. one which should serve as a stark reminder to american lawmakers at what happens when you play with fire in a fragile economy. sometimes, as fire goes out of control, and has catastrophic consequences. coming out of the 1970s and 1980s, headed to the 1990s, japan was the fastest growing economic power in the world, a global financial club manufacturing all sorts of things. think about watches, panasonic tvs, toyota cars. when our stuff
The governments proposed order specifies that such statements would include, a, statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospect of witnesses. We, statements about any party, witness, attorney, Court Personnel or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory or intimidating, and quote. Its no secret that long before donald trump entered politics and long before the invention of, twitter he has abused various forms of media to attack celebrities. Politicians, others with whom he disagrees or thinks of scoring ten. The practice persisted through his presidency. He use social media and other platforms to Ridicule Members of his own cabinet among many others. The behavior has continued over the past few months. The criminal indictments piled up across four different jurisdictions around the country. Hes made numerous disparaging comments about the prosecutors who brought the cases against him. The judges who are randomly assigned to those cases as well as p
For president. now, moving away from the electoral college system, would be a massive undertaking, especially with the kind of polarization we have in our politics to politics today. certainly an amendment that abolishes the electoral college altogether, there are potential paths forward. a popular vote system to arrive at a popular vote system. and the most prominent is called the national popular vote interstate compact. which is basically an agreement among states, that their electoral votes will be awarded to whichever candidate won the national popular vote. which would go in effect, as soon as states totaling 270 electoral votes, and act the compact. already,. 15 states and the district of columbia, totaling 195 electoral votes, have signed on to this agreement. after a quick break, i m gonna talk to one of the people who helped oversee the idea behind the national popular, vote interesting compact. he is the expert of all experts, unconstitutional issues. professor akhil reed
Georgia, someone they are in pennsylvania, why isn t that problem for governors? because governors actually don t have all executive power within states. they tend to have independently elected attorneys general, independent elected secretaries of state or election officials, whereas in federal government the president can fire the attorney general out. well so the different system. those are the best arguments for and against as i see them. after the 2000 election when bush won the theorized and effectively abolish the electoral college achieve, a popular vote system, without a constitutional amendment. this is known as the national popular vote interstate compact. you ve announced that you think there are issues with this
Do not get any attention and as dr. belcher says they ll focus on a small amount of states. first, we don t have to eliminate the electoral college to move to a national popular vote system. this process is underway. three states just came on board with the national popular vote. the constitution says states get to choose how their electors are assigned. 13 states said we choose to assign all of our electorates. when enough states sign onto amount to the 270 needed. so to get enough states who sign onto this law, they have to pass the state law, that means we don t have to pass electoral college. we don t have to change the constitution, we just need to change state law. the idea that president trump says the city that s simply not true. los angeles is a huge city and