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Tuesday, 12 January 2021 - 17:16 The supreme court verdict holding the charges on contempt of court against MP Sadda Vidda Rajapakse Palanga Pathira Ambakumarage Ranjan Leo Sylvester Alphonsu Alias Ranjan RamanayakaRanjan Ramanayake has been released. The verdict states.... The charge levelled against him is that he committed the offence of contempt of court when he made the statement on 21.8.2017 outside the Temple Trees. He admitted in his evidence that he said the following words when ...

A 3-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday convicted Ranjan Ramanayake for the contempt of court.

>> if the article is true, and it appears to be, based on other things he said, it is absolutely damnable. it is a disgrace. it is so unamerican. it is so unpatriotic. >> reporter: the article, based entirely on anonymous sources, portrays the president as someone with contempt for military service. it describes a november, 2018, trip to france. the president was supposed to visit a world war i cemetery where american troops are buried, but the white house canceled the visit, saying bad weather ...

Representatives to justify an abuse of power charge. he also was very critical of the obstruction of congress theory, and he pointed out that it would be an abuse of power by congress under these circumstances where congress has simply demanded information, gotten a refusal from the executive branch based on constitutionally based prerogatives of the executive or refusal to provide that information, than to simply go straight to impeachment without going through the accommodations process, witho...

Past presidents -- as professor dershowitz pointed out, there is a long line of presidents who conducted abuse of power. there could also be a long line the presidents who could be impeached, quote, unquote, if every president insisted on the prerogatives of the president and insisted on the separation of powers, that could be treated as something impeachable in his evidence of guilt. president obama himself refused to turn over a lot of documents to the house in the fast and furious investigati...

That whatever the senate does is control. he created a lot of enemies. not going to be legitimate. he changed the political system that is part of the problem. in radical ways. so joe biden is saying im not we dont know how china will going to go but reality is, the react. weve seen a new militancy on beijing, pushing on boards from question over executive privilege is entirely different india to the south, to south matter than what he is saying. korea in the north. chinese are injuring american...

Joe biden risks congressional contempt if he doesnt comply. its okay for him to bluster, maybe bluff a little bit, but ultimately when push comes to shove, its not a good idea for joe biden or anyone to refuse to comply with a senate subpoena. >> lets play this out a little bit, if he does go ahead and testify, would he even be a relevant witness for the trial? if not, would the testimony even be admissible? >> the senate makes its own rules. the rules of admissibility in criminal courts are dec...

>> judas crime is so easy to understand and at the same time so terrible. he betrayed his friend. >> along comes a bombshell, a newly translated ancient manuscript. >> just 25 tattered sheets of papyrus written in the ancient language. the lost gospel of judas: it challenges our contempt for judas character. but now will missing fragments of text complete the gospel and force us to reconsider judas role in the story of jesus? >> the story of jesus, the story of the crucifixion, is not so much a ...

>> the tablet of gods law speaks plainly. >> herod antipas was absolutely the worst kind of leader that you could hope for. he really needed to prove himself to rome, and because of that, he was a little bit overzealous, lets say. >> with the protection of rome, herod antipas rules galilee with all the contempt of an autocrat, but herod has made his first serious miscalculation. hes turned his back on jewish law by marrying his brothers wife, herodias. >> this was in violation of a law in the le...

Overzealous, lets say. >> with the protection of rome, herod antipas rules galilee with all the contempt of an autocrat, but herod has made his first serious miscalculation. hes turned his back on jewish law by marrying his brothers wife, herodias. >> this was in violation of a law in the leviticus which says that a man must not uncover the nakedness of his brothers wife. >> herodias is the wife of your brother. >> john the baptist was very critical of the political regime. in particular, he was...