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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud. Meht

Refusal to change draft order contrary to judge's memorandum also professional misconduct

Could use as learning over people, things he could use to settle the scores. the biggest question in my mind is why on earth having been told repeatedly by so many people that resteadfastly refused to turn these things over and instead carried them all away. you know, i hope doj is contempt now with the fbi that they have recovered everything, but were talking about a massive amount of information. >> a massive amount indeed, and maya, i want to point out that ron johnson is in a very tight race...

That. have a listen. >> this is not an issue where violence is ever an answer. you should make it clear. this is not something that should rise to the level of violence. >> those folks on the ground are historically extraordinary efforts to enforce our rule of law fundamental to our democracy and democracy. the fbi is part of that. so, yes, we need to pull back on casting judgment on them. >> look, kate, up until january 6th we saw mostly a lot of trump supporters using platforms like facebook a...

A government worker who rudely refused to sign a subpoena to testify as a witness in a fraud trial has been arrested and detained.

Trump is an even more threat as an outsider than richard nixon ever was. now, craig, earlier this week this presidential historian, michael beschloss offered some interesting analysis of race to watch. if a youre a lot of people are saying weve never seen before in the history of the household of the president of of the unitd states being searched by the fbi and that is true. but we must never say thatls without also including the lasto of the sentence, which is weve never seen a president behav...

Reckless disclosure of sensitive classified information and this could be another version of that flagrant disregard and contempt. having said that, it is nonetheless shocking to me having overseen prosecutors of multiple defendants under provisions of the espionage act to see that same statute leveled as a foundation for a search warrant executed on the home of a former president of the united states. >> meanwhile there are new concerns over the safety of fbi agents. as cnns brian todd explains...

Special agent. thank you for being here. do you think a raid was necessary? >> absolutely not. i mean, look, if, in fact, its true that the fbi at some point were issuing or had issued a grand jury subpoena basically making a compulsion with respect to turning over the documents that they became aware of that president trump were in possession of. the remedy for resistance or for not turning over the documents to come before a district court judge and hold him in contempt. the optics on this sea...

Theme, whether it was his handling of mike flynn, his national security adviser, whether it was his initial response to the briefing about russian interference through covert action in our events in 2016, whether it was his behavior at the summit with vladimir putin. you can go through a series of a dozen different instances in which the same pattern exists. donald trump does not take classified material as seriously as he should, and he also has contempt, which he often expresses, for the peopl...

Espionage act by a former president, what went through your mind when you saw that? >> well, if it were some other president, we might be completely shocked. in some respects its not that surprising given this presidents consistent flagrant disregard for the protection of classified information and disregard for the intelligence community throughout his presidency. his careless, reckless disclosure of sensitive classified information not only to foreign nationals but to the heads of governments ...