Court of appeals heard oral argument Via Teleconference on whether they should order the trial judge of the d. C. District to dismiss the justice departments perjury case against michael flynn. Well show you that oral argument next. Michael t. Flynn, the honorable emmett g. Sullivan. Good morning, counsel. Well here first from ms. Powell. Good morning. This is Sidney Powell for petitioner michael flynn. Were here now to stop further intrusion into the sole power of the executive branch under the take care clause to decide to dismiss a case and what circumstances warrant that dismissal. The government here provided an extensive and thoroughly documented motion to dismiss this prosecution weighing as it should all of the factors that go into that, include the provision of evidence that came to light through an independent review by mr. Jensen who not only had ten Years Experience as an fbi agent, but ten years as a federal prosecutor before attorney general barr tasked him to review this
Honorable emmett g. Sullivan. Good morning, counsel. Well here first from ms. Powell. Good morning. This is Sidney Powell for petitioner michael flynn. Were here now to stop further intrusion into the sole power of the executive branch under the take care clause to decide to dismiss a case and what circumstances warrant that dismissal. The government here provided an extensive and thoroughly documented motion to dismiss this prosecution weighing as it should all of the factors that go into that, include the provision of evidence that came to light through an independent review by mr. Jensen who not only had ten Years Experience as an fbi agent, but ten years as a federal prosecutor before attorney general barr tasked him to review this case. It cannot go on any longer. This is the quintessential case because we have both issues of judicial of prerogatives and a clear abuse. Theres no case or controversy any longer. The government has quit, and he also has no authority to go into the re
Theons during mexicanamerican war. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong discussion. We are thrilled to welcome back three frequent guests of Historical Society tonight. F. Marszalek is the giles distinguished professor of meritus at Mississippi State university, the executive managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association, written orek has edited numerous acclaimed books memoirsg the personal of ulysses s. Grant released earlier this year and you will store. In our museum craig l. Symonds is the ernest j. King chair at the u. S. Naval newport, rhode island, and Professor Emeritus academy,s. Naval author and editor of several books u. S. Military history, civil war at sea. Monitor, is the director at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at college. In 2008, he was awarded the byional humanities medal president george w. Bush. He is the author or editor of 50 books of lincoln and the era, including winner lammon lincoln prize. I ask if you have a cell phone or
We may leave that for later discussion, but i enjoyed that conversation. Is a professor of International History at the London School of economics. He is an expert of the cold war and soviet russian history, particularly intellectual history. Among his books particularly related to this topic, the failed empire and the cold war. I noted among his books zhivagos children. Having just watched the movie yet again, dr. Zhivago, i was topic. O that jerry is a longtime friend of the Miller Center. We are always happy to welcome forback as we did recently an american for him on his latest book, the impossible presidency, which in light of itcumbent is called could be called the impossible president , but it is the impossible presidency. Both theed in department of history and the Lyndon Johnson school of Public Affairs at the university of texas. I will turn to vlad first, who will speak to us about his essay on brezhnev and the lessons of detente. Go there . I you may go wherever you want. S
Several books including the law of the land a grand tour of our constitutional republic. I akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. At least he is my most popular professor. And you are all here because he is your most popular professor. Before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or Electronic Devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. Thank you. [applause] dr. Amar good evening. Welcome. Thank you so much for coming. York historical society. Were going to be talking about the Supreme Court and we will be talking about these Supreme Court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the New York Historical society. And, yes, why is this night different from all others . Is one thought. It is really only this week it has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming president ial election will be a subway series between [laughter] two new not just yorkers, but two people headquartered in me