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hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. >> coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. >> five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow...

faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. >> a skeptical response to donald trumps immunity claims by one of the three federal appeals judges who heard arguments yesterday. well get expert legal analysis on that hearing. straight ahead, it comes just days before the iowa caucuses. nikki haley and ron desantis are in the state trying to cut trumps large lead while he is tied up with those legal issues. also ahead, the latest on the health scare for the secretary of defens...

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday (Dec. 1) left pro-life advocates hopeful the justices are poised to uphold a state ban on abortion after 15 weeks’

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court questioned multiple lawyers for a total of nearly three hours Monday (Nov. 1) regarding whether Texas’ ban on heartbeat abortions may continue to

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Another big donald trump nomination is edward welland, president of the ethics and policy center. he is former clerk to justice scalia and contributor to bench memos blog where he has been writing extensively about the nominees and to the records. lets discuss. you worked with judge scalia very closely, is neil gorsuch another scalia? >> no one can be a full replacement for justice scalia, but neil gorsuch is an outstanding judge, like justice scalia, hes it dedicated ritualist and textual list ...

Us today is, in fact, a view that you have expressed about judging? >> well, i dont think ive written anything about judging in that way. but i think that you can look to my life, that you can look to the way i interact with people. i mean, my deanship was a good example. but the way i have acted as solicitor general, as well. the kind of consideration that ive given to different arguments. the kind of fairness that ive shown in making decisions. i think that those would all be, you know, approp...

Gave. first, most importantly, are the question of circuit conflicts that the court -- he is a very important responsibility of the courts to make sure that our law is uniform, and to resolve any conflicts that appear among the circuit courts. second, is the court should be available almost all the time, where a judicial decision invalidates a congressional statute that congress is entitled to that kind of respect to have the supreme court hear the case before a congressional statute is invalida...