Page 742 - Contempt News Today

President over the supreme court decision and over the next day or two you see the approach we are taking and it does provide a pathway for getting the question on the census. >> the contempt vote if it passes the full house could set up an interesting variable where the attorney general justice department considers the petition to hold their boss in contempt. >> very interesting. thank you so much. we will talk more about this coming up. some other headlines. homeland security wants to send 100...

The defense attorney, the judge said, okay, look, im going to hold you in contempt of court if you do this one more time in my court, youre going to be held in contempt. that sort of calmed things down, but not entirely. but he finished his testimony and then he left. and he said -- testified he never deleted anything, but he sure didnt get that phone returned to him, and the police are saying, we returned the phone to you. the father of the accuser. >> jean, thank you very much. following this ...

>> will the other half go? i mean, this is so unfortunate on every level. of course youd love to go to the white house. that is a life-time experience. whiegt so might some of them go? >> i have read on who might attend and who might not. i think you see solidarity on this team. what i was saying is its hard to get respect if you dont give respect. for the president of the united states show contempt for paem who have been critical of him, you got the shadow cabinet issue where obama is cheering...

Think that that is potentially a reason for adding the citizenship question. in any case, suppressing the count of minorities and others is illegal and unconstitutional and i think that it goes against the spirit of what the constitution commands which is that every person has to be counted, regardless of whether theyre a citizen and regardless of whether they vote. for instance children and others. >> speaker pelosi reiterated her threat voet on the house floor against the trump administration ...

Talk to republicans privately they sound differently, they have nod been willing to break with the president even when theyre not totally a board with what hes saying or doing. congressman amash has been the only republican to vote in favor of holding at manages officials in contempt when the administration has pushed back against congresss attempts to do oversight. i think hes right that hes probably going to lose that perch because of what hes done, but theres no evidence that republicans are ...

>> the supreme court was very clear. you cant lie to the court about why you are taking the action you are taking. you cant lie about why you want to add the question to the 2020 census. the fact is we know why they wanted to add the question to the 2020 census. they wanted to discriminate against latino communities and communities of color. if the government is not willing to come back on friday and say that its going to abandon the effort, this unwise illegal effort, we will move forward in co...

Intentionally discriminatory. >> if you are able to prove it is discriminatory and the courtsides with you on that, the reason im pressing this and this is an elementary school level question, forgive me, im concerned that the president is showing small c contempt for the idea that hes bound by the court in terms of what he is able to do with this policy. if the courts continue to try to intervene and he directs the justice department and the census department to not follow the courts direction,...

Communities of color and if the government is not willing to come back on friday and say that its going to abandon this effort, this unwise, illegal effort, we will move forward in court to prove that the addition of the question was intentionally discriminatory. >> if you are able to prove it is intentionally discriminatory and the court sides with you on that, the reason im pressing this and i know this is an elementary school level question, forgive me. im concerned that the president is show...

They wanted to discriminate against latino communities and communities of color. if the government is not willing to come back on friday and say that its going to abandon the effort, this unwise illegal effort, we will move forward in court to prove that the additional of the question was intentionally discriminatory. >> if you are able to prove it is discriminatory and the courtsides with you on that, the reason im pressing this and this is an elementary school level question, forgive me, im co...

We think about getting through moments, as though were going to get to something where, oh, everythings fine. has there ever been a moment in the history of the world where people said, oh, everythings fine, nothing has to change? no. >> no. no. >> and during bill clintons impeachment, everyone said, its a constitutional crisis. no, its not. its in the constitution. read the constitution, let people vote. >> they didnt plan for a complicit congress, as you pointed out, but go ahead. >> listening...