Core Constitutional Function News Today

first, the latest headlines. the us supreme court has ruled donald trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the white house. courts will now need to distinguish between what were official and unofficial actions — and that will be delayed well beyond novembers election. the trump ally, steve bannon, has reported to prison to begin his four month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. bannon refused to give evidence before the committee inves...

dissents in her opinion, which concurred in part. still, these justices, thomas, alito, kavanaugh, gorsuch, roberts and barrett seemed to treat the allegations and the indictment that brought this ground breaking case to the supreme court as more of an academic moment than an existential one. the allegations that the former president of the united states while in office tried to use the levers of power to keep himself in office. reading the decision can seem circular, even. the preside...

To anyt presidents ability to carry out a core constitutional function. is this more r soso a protectio the prior administration as opposed to this white house feeling that it is protecting the candidate? >> well we dont know withoutt s seeing the documents, but in my suspicion, it is protecting the candida candidate. they should release them, and they are rushing it through, and the concern is what do these document documents show about the type of oadvice that he gave george w. bush and where ...

They use that charge to sort of limit and curb him in every turn. youre saying he can apply that logic when hes asked to sit down with mueller. he would make the argument how that that is not constitutional? >> yeah. right now -- this is what is wrong with the legal strategy, hes lawyers are learned about his personal legal liability. weve been told that they dont want to sit with mr. mueller because theyre worried that president trump might purger himself. the other argument is we will not sit ...

An attack on the core functions of government. i get if youre a conservative and youre saying, i dont know, government shouldnt be mandating whats taught in classrooms, or government is too intrusive in our economic life, thats standard conservatism. when youre going after what a core function of government is, which is public safety, right, a core constitutional function, then youre talking about a very different kind of republican party and what youre saying is exactly right. this plays into t...