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Mandamus. its what took place in marbury versus madison. you basically go to the court and say there is a federal officer, a supreme court justice, who is refusing to follow the law. ordering the federal officer to follow the law. this was the and order from the seven justices to alito and thomas to recuse themselves for obvious reasons for the court has said in the williams case, the caperton case, it is an objective test, not subjective. a test whether alito or thomas feels they can be imparti...

A precedent. i understand the point youre making about -- >> because you do know that since then, both north carolina was found to have targeted minority votes with, quote, surgical precision, which is pretty rough phrase. and texas got after it so frequently that a federal court finally said, look, we think theres a penchant for discrimination here. so if you have got the five judges saying that its over in these states and then it turns out it really isnt over, that theres actually still surgi...

Know, is a precedent of the supreme court, so entitled the respect as a matter of stare decisis. as you know and i would just reiterate, if someone wants to challenge that decision, they -- one of the things that anyone can raise about any case is that its based on a mistaken premise or mistaken factual premises, and thats the kind of things courts are open to hearing. >> my time has expired. i thank the chairman for the indulgence of the extra minute. >> a couple things. first, i would note -- ...

That consumed washington for months during the clinton president. 1996, january, primary colors, a fictional political novel, was printed anonymously, but the characters were said to mirror and critique the clinton administration. when the book was adapted into a film, john travolta was cast as that president. >> so you know what im going to do? im fgoing to do something realy outrageous. im going to tell the truth. i know, i know what youre thinking. youre thinking he must really be desperate t...

Right, a little green day. thats where my head is. dana bash and ryan lizza, thanks so much. coming up, this is not the first time washington has been consumed by an anonymous publication about a president. my next guest actually exposed the author behind a similar case involving president clinton. how he did it back then and what hes noticing now about this latest op-ed. well discuss that next. (vo) when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach,

Be true. and upon that proposition, hangs the decision that it reaches. and the question is, what happens when that proposition of fact actually in reality, you have referenced the real world so often, actually in reality turns out not to be true? what is the obligation of an appellate court if it has hung a decision on a proposition of fact and then the proposition of fact turns out not to be true? does it have any obligation to go back and try to clean up that discrepancy, to clean up that mes...

>> i understand that. >> so i have one minute left. let me jump to the other example. because i think its an important one and my time is running out. that is citizens united. citizens united took on the proposition that the unlimited spending that it authorized by people capable of unlimited spending would be both transparent and independent. correct? >> the court upheld the disclosure requirements in that case, if thats the question. >> it said more than that. it said its the transparency and ...

In this context to make decisions and recusal is a decision on a case, so i dont think its appropriate. >> if its not proerptd, let me move on with something else because let me ask you about the question of presidential shall we say conflicts with prosecutors. when you were in the starr prosecution effort, you were exposed to this contest with the clinton white house. and you described the clinton white house as running a, and im quoting you here, prejudicially approved smear campaign was one p...

Caperton case, as i said, was because of the amount of money, the financial interest, which is a whole separate branch. >> correct, which would have a dissignificant and disproportionate influence on the judge becoming a judge, right? thats what the connection was. the spending of money by the party helped make the judge the judge. in this case, if a criminal matter involving president trump came before you, he wouldnt have just spent $3 million to make you a judge. he would have flat out made y...