Page 22 - Functioning Democracy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Chicanery, the dishonesty, coming up for these cases. that is not acting like a court, that is not judging, that is something else. that is partisan politics. whatever you think of the decision, you like them, you don't like them, that is beside the point. this is not a court. as a result, it is not a question of rebalancing, it is a question of correcting and making the court back into a court. it is transforming it from something that is illegitimate into something that would be legitimate and operate -- >> agree with everything you're saying, your analysis a spot on, but joe biden's telling...

Would take decades for democrats to appoint a majority of members. jen, you support quarter form, things that term limits. but the president you support doesn't, not really. i believe you are part of a group of journalists who met with him privately off the record earlier this week. what is he thinking? why won't you budge on this do you think? >> well, unfortunately that was before these decisions so we didn't have a chance to grill him on it. but i will say this, and this is key, it is not a right, left problem. it is not even an attack on maternity, this is an attack on democracy. the court...

In america tonight what you believe is the state of democracy, of freedom, of human rights in pakistan tonight? how bad is it? >> well mehdi, for some of us who have seen the evolution of our democracy over the, especially 20 years, including the marshall law. and then in that marshall up we saw what was called the movement for the independents of judiciary. during that time, the media said of its independence, so we were moving towards a democratic system, to governments came in and stood for five years and then left, elections and other governments took over. so moving towards the, what we h...

On to bring an indictment after he left office, he got pardoned and a pardon is act salute and forever. we were unable to do that. even though donald trump is a person with no shame and no recognition or value to the laws, i do think that the reality of nixon having been held accountable might have sent a message to him that would have had him under control, would've had him listening to his lawyers who said, you can't do these things. it would have made a difference. do i think it makes nixon look like a choir boy? no. i often think it is worse because i did not feel that democracy was at sta...

Canada needs a new cultural contract that puts art and artists squarely at the centre of our lives