Executive Discretion News Today

our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, shes here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. >> yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the courts term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the presidents student loan debt forgiveness program while also...

The Delhi High Court single bench of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh held that implementation of revised pay scales involves executive discretion and courts do not have the authority to intervene...

There. but i think in prior times the supreme court would have respected executive discretion when it was ambiguous. and i think that what you see here is an increased willingness of the supreme court to say no were going to go with our judgment, not the judgment of the executive, were going to go with our jum not the judgment of the legislature. were going to go with our judgment not the judgment of colorado state. were going to go with our judgment, not the judgment of harvard university. and ...

No money to not have priorities, to not try to delineate who gets picked up, who is subject to removal and who is not. we cant take care of everyone so why cant we have through our own executive discretion and what the court has allowed in past cases to say these are our priorities and texas which has come to the supreme court in so many ways to challenge biden administration priorities has said, no, there are black letter rules in the federal law that you have to abide by and texas got some sym...

Personally is he was raising the issue of corruption with the sitting vice president joe biden. thats a legitimate exercise of executive discretion using taxpayer dollars in a way that doesnt go to corrupt country -- >> let me ask you a question. how many times does he say corruption in that call? >> youre asking where do i see corruption and i dont see that here. >> how many times did president trump use the word corruption in talking about corruption on the phone call? >> when youre looking at...

Had this sexual relationship with a white house intern, but its not high crimes and misdemeanors. im curious are you willing to say what the presidents conduct here on the call, on this rogue foreign policy and attempting to pressure ukraine into manufacturing dirt or digging up dirt on his political opponent, that was not cool, that was not good even if its impeachable. >> how i view the evidence, me personally is he was raising the issue of corruption with the sitting vice president joe biden....

It said he declined to act on congressional committees request. your response? >> it isnt an informal committee request. the law requires when the chafrm and the ranking member of the foreign relations asked to make a finding he has to respond. he has to respond. thats what the law says. he doesnt have an option here. i understand why he doesnt want to make this determination. intelligence services are telling them that he was responsible and because either of a personal relationship he has or a...

>> this isnt an informal committee request. the law requires that when the chairman and the rankin member of the foreign relations committee ask the president to make a finding as to a human rights violation overseas, he has to respond. he has to respond. thats what the law says. he doesnt have an option here. i understand why he doesnt want to make this determination. his intelligence services are telling him that mohammad bin salman was responsible and because either of a personal relationship...

So this is an abuse of power, it is out side the realm of normal procedures to revoke someones clearance. and im here to tell you the sad prediction that well come soon to the day where someone in active service of our government, employed by our government, is going to have their clearance revoked simply because the president doesnt like them. >> but look, the constitution makes the president of the united states a very powerful individual. if the presidents actions fall under executive discret...

Author of the road not taken and michael dantonio, the author of "the truth about trump." good evening, gentlemen. i want to ask you about this breaking news about this federal judge in california. this federal judge in california is now saying theyre giving the government really 14 days, we said 30 days, to reunify these families. some within 14 days, some within 30 days. whats your reaction to that? >> its a great move from a humanitarian standpoint. you have to wonder about what is the long-t...