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The Atlantic Defend the Public Defenders Their ability to hold on to their job should not depend on the same people they challenge in court. March 13, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural—public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it—and the system can be fixed structurally: ...

The Atlantic The minoritarian skew of the House and Senate presents an obstacle to democratic reform. March 5, 2021 The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. delivered that complaint in 1973, just ahead of a wave of reforms that sought to cut the presidency down to size. The War Powers Act of 1973, the Anti-Impoundment Act of 1974, the creation of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in the mid-1970s: These and other measures aimed to restrain the presidency and restore power to Congress. Fo...

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, speaks during a press conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, June 21, 2016, in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The head of a pro-life group is slamming the coronavirus relief bill passed by the United States House last week, contending that it amounts to a "slush fund" for the major abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List, issued a state...

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, speaks during a press conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, June 21, 2016, in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The head of a pro-life group is slamming the coronavirus relief bill passed by the United States House last week, contending that it amounts to a "slush fund" for the major abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List, issued a statem...

Lucas asks Jackson County judge to extend, expand eviction moratorium and last updated 2020-12-15 18:19:33-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas called on the Jackson County Circuit Court to extend and expand a moratorium on evictions in a letter Tuesday sent to the county’s presiding judge. Lucas asked Presiding Judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit J. Dale Youngs to halt “all filings, hearings, writs, enforcement, and garnishments, with narrow exceptions...

Accurate. lieutenant colonel vindman said that. in his deposition, in the testimony in the hearing. complete and accurate transcript. so to say, suggest its not is just not consistent with the testimony we received from your witnesses. remember, lieutenant doercolone vindman same guy wouldnt tell us all he talked to about the call. shired it with five people but only told four individuals but thats the guy who told us the transcript was complete and ak vi accurate. i yield back. >> thank you ver...

Them during benghazi proceedings, they had no problem conducting 33 hearings in two years. all of a sudden to hear these republicans people like mark meadows, jim jordan, and secretary of state mike pompeo, all whom defended their allegations at the time saying things like the american people have a right to know whats going on, talking about congressional oversight authority, how the executive needs to cooperate with the congress. now to watch them completely abandon all of those principles, de...

Executive privilege. remember, the supreme court said, in the nixon case, many years ago, that theres this privilege, but we dont know exactly what the contours of it are. we just know that it sort of exists. so, in this case, rudy giuliani is a private citizen and hes acting as the presidents private attorney, not the white houses and not the executive branches. >> lets switch gears for a moment and talk about the white house letter to the house pretty much stonewalling the inquiry saying they ...

Ive tried to get schiff. in fairness, hes trying to work this out. i do want to address what youre talking about in terms of the larger context. previous presidents including clinton and obama actually asserted they had some control over this type of process. you know, in fairness, executive branches always do that. >> yep. >> they say they get to control what gets sent to congress. thats what executive branches do. but the larger context here is this president has adopted this sort of use of pr...

He is not that the republicans used to believe in. he single-handedly runs the entire right in terms of elected politics. and youve got the democrats still sort of managing different constituents like a small d democrats. >> i think part of it is that the president is on the executive branches, he is clearly the leader of the party. nancy pelosi does have a lot of different -- i will give jake the credit to or the credit to nancy pelosi she deserves which is her job is to keep control of the hou...