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New book by former Pa. state senator calls for environmental rights amendment to the Constitution Updated Apr 29, 2021; Posted Apr 29, 2021 Franklin Kury, author of Pennsylvanias Environmental Rights Amendments, points to need for national amendment in new book. (File photo) Facebook Share An amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment is the call issued in a new book by Franklin Kury, who more than 50 years ago, as a newly elected Pennsylvania state senat...

Where do we go on this very fast timeline to vote on articles of impeachment? >> there are two important tracks, in the house and senate. on the house side, certainly what those articles of impeachment will look like, how does the house potentially pull in some of the mueller investigation or do they try to stay focused on ukraine and how does pelosi manage the anxiety were seeing from the house democrats that were slow to get on board. i would really watch the senate. thats where its going to h...

Who did the opposite thing. if you look at just going back and the concerns everybody raised about brett kavanaugh. how many people actually voted against him in the end? its easy for the gop to do everything preliminary and look like they might be on the fence and then side with the president. >> the question is whether any republicans want to make a statement about the presidents conduct, in the course of the trial, short of impeaching him. we havent seen whether they want room to make that st...

I prey fay for the president ale time. so dont mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> we can talk about james and talk about the provacative nature of that question, but that was a moment that really got at something here, which is we know impeachment is a political process. but as it becomes so personal and so much about delegitimizing public figures, that that overtakes the constitutional question. >> it was a striking moment and its clear what pelosi is trying to do. shes trying to...

Has gotten up and said i dont want to do this unless it is bipartisan. i dont want to do this unless we can get republican votes are going to be played over and over again in a reality where we dont have republican votes. she again will say that they had no choice and that republicans are overlooking constitutional violations. but i do think thats a real obstacle. >> and the reality is we saw it in the constitutional scholars the other day. one of the scholars talking about the presidents son, b...

Put up a presidential candidate who isnt the antithesis. >> elizabeth warren sounds a lot like donald trump in a lot of areas. and so if you think about where the economic pain is in the country, those are the voters that they want to reach and that is what is smart about the orthodoxy of warren. >> this is the argument that warren and sanders campaigns are making where they say youre misreading the general election electorate where you think we are too far left but we could win over the voters ...

But seriously, right, and think about how that was just four legal experts. how many they had during the clinton impeachment era. but you saw that the republican legal scholar was trying to make that case, too. he didnt vote for trump, but he thinks this doesnt meet the bar. this is the problem. youre not arguing about the facts here. youre not arguing about the people here. the characters are set. the fact pattern is set. youre arguing about the intent and the feelings. that comes back down to ...

Pete buttigieg. we are about to find out if he can take a punch. so far hes been able to skillfully, disarmingly go through all of this -- i was at an event with him on friday and a group of protesters were standing up and called him wall street pete, and he had a smile on his face and said thats what they used to call president obama and then he went to set up the consumer financial protection bureau headed by elizabeth warren. so well see how he handles the punch. we dont know. hes an undefine...

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Government under which is the justice department cannot obstruct in an ongoing investigation; right? i think thats really fascinating. obviously i dont know the answer to that. we all dont know the answer to that, but we can presume should a subpoena be issued, that it will come to the supreme court and it will be a major, major constitutional question. mike: some democrats behind you there on capitol hill are reacting saying this letter suggests the president is arguing he is above the laws of ...