Biden calls Trump immunity decision a ‘dangerous precedent’ in speech outlining radical SCOTUS changes
President Biden said Monday he wants Congress to impose “bold” rules, including term limits on the Supreme Court and a new code of conduct, and to draft a new constitutional amendment to limit presidential immunity. “The Supreme Court’s extreme decisions in recent years have undermined some of the longest-standing civil rights principles and protections,” Biden […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’ absence at Netanyahu speech not without precedent
Vice President Kamala Harris announced that instead of co-chairing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, she will attend a planned event in Indiana, the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule in Indianapolis. Because it is a joint meeting The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate […]
Supreme Court scraps Chevron precedent, stripping federal regulators of power
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned decades of precedent established in the 1984 case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, dramatically stripping power back from federal regulators. In a 6-3 decision, again split along ideological lines, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron case, which had held that the judiciary should defer to government agencies when […]
There Is Near Zero Historical Precedent For Biden DOJ Getting Steve Bannon Thrown In Jail
There’s almost no historical precedent for the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to have Steve Bannon serve time in jail for his conviction on contempt of Congress charges. After an appeals court upheld in May Bannon’s conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena, the DOJ asked the […]
Trump Calls Democrat Political Prosecution a ‘Terrible Precedent,’ Like ‘Third-World Countries’
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Greg Kelly Report” that Democrats are making America look like a Third World country by indicting him because he’s winning in the polls. “Could this be a pure positive? There’s a lot of money being raised, a lot of support being shown. Could this be […]
There Is ‘Risk’ Trump Case Creates Precedent for Using Courts to Attack Opponents
“There’s always that risk,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) said on “CNN Newsroom” on Friday, in response to a question about whether the trial and conviction of former President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would set a precedent for members of each party to use the judicial system to go after political opponents in […]
Ken Buck: Trump hush money trial, verdict set ‘dangerous precedent’
Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) said former President Trump’s hush money trial and sentence set a “dangerous precedent.” “This is a dangerous precedent. Even if you don’t think that Republican district attorneys and attorneys general are going to turn things around, they will,” Buck said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday. “And what […]
This Is Setting a ‘Disastrous Precedent’
Donald Trump Jr. told reporters outside a New York courtroom on Tuesday that what they are doing to former President Donald Trump is setting a “terrible precedent” for the U.S. justice system. Told. Donald Trump Jr. described the proceedings as an “utter farce” and said all Americans should be “embarrassed” about the “absolute miscarriage of […]
Air Force National Guard Space Force plan flies in the face of precedent
The Air Force is promoting a policy shift that effectively goes against more than a hundred years of precedent, and is facing significant opposition to it. The crux of the policy change is that the relevant Air National Guard units would be folded into the U.S. Space Force, but governors are the heads of their […]
Republican House speakers set new precedent on voting
From eighth-grade civics to college administration courses to nearly 30 years in the House and think tank worlds, I mistakenly believed that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives could only vote to break ties. My long-held misconceptions were shattered last month when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) voted to pass a resolution rather […]