bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, for the second time in a little more than two years, major u.s. supreme court ruling on abortion appears to have been leaked to the public ahead of its official release. this time the high court is apparently poised to allow emergency abortions in idaho when a pregnant patient s health is at serious risk. this happens as we await a major decision on presidential immunity from the justices who did issue some rulings today. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream takes a look tonight. good evening, shannon. what do we know about this abortion case online posting? yeah. so the court said today there was briefly a document that was posted on the website but a spokesman for the court says it was inadvertent uploading of a document to the opinion itself out of idaho this case has not been released yet. bloomberg captured the document. it appears to show that the
Evidence. This will set a dangerous precedent where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not what our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment, treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Alleged abuse of power. The first article is not a high crime and misdemeanor. In fact, its not even a crime. And since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power, the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president from now on in impeachment offense. The second article alleged obstruction of congress would produce a similarly dangerous precedent. Asserting executive privilege a practice that began with George Washington is not obstruction of congress. Rather, its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. Heres what nearly every Grade School Student in america knows, but apparently House Democrats
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Called wafer thin evidence. This is where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not how our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment. Alleged abuse of power, the first article is not a high crime or misdemeanor. In fact its not even a crime. Since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president are now in an Impeachable Offense. The second article produced a similarly dangerous precedent. Its a practice that began with George Washington and its not obstruction of congress. Rather its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. It is what every Grade School Student in america knows but apparently House Democrats do
not. Let the third branch of government decide to come up they are the referees. The house has never, i repeat never, approved an abuse of Power Roi Obstructio
treason, pontius pilate gave the opportunity to face his accusers. during that sham trial, pontius pilate afforded more rights to than democrats have afforded this president in this process. gentleman from new york. of the president was given the opportunity to come and testify before the judiciary committee to send this counsel and question witnesses and he declined to do so. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan. thank you, madame speaker. this is a sad day for our country and for our democracy. the president has abused the powers of his office, betrayed the public trust and undermined america s national security by pressuring the foreign government to interfere in our elections in this moment, and
when jesus was falsely accused of treason paunshs pilot gave jesus the opportunity to, afforded more rights to jesus than the democrats have afforded this president in this process. i yield back. gentleman from new york. the president was given the opportunity to come and testify before the judiciary committee to send his counsel to question witnesses. he declined to do so. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan mr. kilding. gentleman for one minute. thank you, madam speaker. this is a sad day for our country and for our democracy. the president has abused the powers of his office, betrayed the public trust and undermined america s national security by pressuring a foreign government to interfere in our elections for his own political gain.