supreme court. we re going to go through the arguments on both sides of the case. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. many of the republican party s biggest names will not be attending the annual conservative political action conference in maryland this week just outside washington, d.c. potential 2024 candidates will not be at the annual gathering. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker kevin mccarthy are also sitting out this year. this year s conference comes as cpac s chair faces a lawsuit that alleges he fondled a male aide to then senate candidate herschel walker back in october. his lawyer says he denies those allegations. none of the politicians that have said they are not attending have cited the allegations as the reason for their absence. however, several republicans who spoke to nbc news anonymously have said the al
With the coming of october comes a new term at the Supreme Court with a lot of cases to be letterhead and a lot of topics to be considered and here to set the stage on what is determined is greg stohr, our bloomberg reporter and thanks for giving us your time. Guest good to be honor. Host if you had to break it down as the issues to expect, how would you do that . Guest we dont have blockbuster cases like the Abortion Case or affirmative action case but there are hot button social issues at the court or likely to be there and include as gun case, a potential Abortion Case or a transgender rights case and then there are a lot of cases about the structure of government that are perhaps a little morwongy but very, very important for the power of administrative agencies here in washington. Hese cases come frome fifth Circuit Court of appeals. Can you explain what the court is and host can you explain what the court is and why so many cases appear . Guest this is texas, louisiana, and missi
President and ceo of the Treatment Center and the Truman National security project. Welcome. Lets start with the big picture. This is a president that breaks with tradition. He ran on an antiglobalist message. What is notable in his style and substance of this trip . Caller i would make three broad points. The first i would say, not exactly on topic but headed into memorial day weekend i want to say this is a complicated weekend for many veterans and military members. We are thinking about you and remembering your sacrifice. With respect to the trip, to me there are kind of three big takeaways. The first is, when i think is a disappointing nato meeting, i think there was a real need for the president to confirm an amendment to a commitment to article five. One of the most controversial foreignpolicy decisions of the Previous Administration was the red line question around syria, and it raised all of these questions around american commitment to follow through on what we said we would d
President and ceo of the Treatment Center and the Truman National security project. Welcome. Lets start with the big picture. This is a president that breaks with tradition. He ran on an antiglobalist message. What is notable in his style and substance of this trip . Caller i would make three broad points. The first i would say, not exactly on topic but headed into memorial day weekend i want to say this is a complicated weekend for many veterans and military members. We are thinking about you and remembering your sacrifice. With respect to the trip, to me there are kind of three big takeaways. The first is, when i think is a disappointing nato meeting, i think there was a real need for the president to confirm an amendment to a commitment to article five. One of the most controversial foreignpolicy decisions of the Previous Administration was the red line question around syria, and it raised all of these questions around american commitment to follow through on what we said we would d
for debt forgiveness. plaintiffs in both cases argue the government doesn t have the authority to cancel loan debt under the proposed rules of the program. but the biden administration argues that a 2003 law gives it that power in the event of a national emergency includes the covid-19 pandemic. protesters including several lawmakers gathered outside the supreme court yesterday in anticipation of the hearing. joining us now education reporter for politico, michael strafford. michael, thanks for being with us today. let s talk about these cases. one of the challenges the urt court is hearing today is whether these two texas borrowers can bring a lawsuit in the first place. tell us about that. that s right. that is the first question that the justices are going to take up later this morning, which is whether these plaintiffs have standing to bring their lawsuit in the first place. in one of the cases as you mentioned there are two student