and it's in article 1 which kind of suggests the founders considered it a legislative power. so i guess i'm a little less moved by that lollapalooza than you are. maybe you can help me out. mr. katyal: there is something certainly legislative there. i think the overall point of smiley is to say, and my friend says in page 6, you take legislatures as you find them. he agrees with that proposition. that's what smiley did as well. the legislature as it was found in minnesota -- justice gorsuch: no one thinks the north carolina supreme court is exercising a legislative function. we all agree on that, too, right? mr. katyal: i think underlying smiley is something more than that. it's basically saying the language of page 365 apply. and one condition on the lawmaking power, only two states is the founding, but more at the time of smiley was the governors vetoed. justice gorsuch: if we want to take a look at our friends in the federalist papers, there was no absolute separation of powers. there was an exception they had to be mixed. you know your federalist 47 and 51 better than i do

we have trying to limit that legislative power. however the legislative por defined under arizona, under smiley we can take those precedents as given, what can't happ tre can't be a substantive limitation of that power. ief justice roberts: last question at least for a whe. why do you say it's procedural? let's say the governor is opposed to the leglave action with respect to the elections, that the legislature endorses. the opsi political party has a whole different view and gives a eech saying, "it's wrong because of this." not because of procedu. that strikes me as saying, "oh, they are supposetoave two votes on it," or whatever, and they didn't. they need a committee report. that st thing is procedure. straight out veto, we don't know what it is. mr. thompson: we're proposing a rmistic test for procedural, which is, "is it a step, aoo that needs to be jumped through?" if presentment is one of the hoops that the state legislature needs to jump throug tn under a formalistic approach that we are suggesting, then that would be proce

it's an article ila which sugges e unders considered a legislative power. less moved by that lollapalooza then you are >> is reflected in the chief justice's coen to my friend on the otherecve side. there's something legislative pair buter the orall point of smiley is to say on page 60 take legislatures as you find them and he agrees with that proposition and that's what smiley did as wellicthe legislature is found in minnotin smiley. >> and nobody here thinks north carolina supre crt is exercising legislative functn, we all agree on that. >> right. >> uering smiley is more specific basically saying that conditionsn e lawmaking power on page 365 applies and certainly one condition only two states of the founding was the governor's veto. say that that's because if we want to look at our friends in the federalist papers and never else we must consider the app salute separation of powers. there's a conception that had to mixed. youu know 47 and 51 better thani do i'm sure but that was legislativeunion given to the president in areas of article i. >> not disagre

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that the constitution assigns to us to exercise control over agencies like the cfpb to exercise legislative powerou also replace the director with the bipartisan commission and the structure will ensure it considers a diversity of voices it's not a new idea. bipartisan legislation into a commission has been repeatedly introduced these accountability measures will help make agency more responsible more balanced and more measured in congress has to w accept the responsibility to do what it should if congress does not that cfpb on appropriations the supreme court may do it for us. the court is expected to consider and may uphold the fifth circuit's decision the funding structure is unconstitutional and if it does i have no doubt congress will act swiftly with appropriate funding after all congress has plenty of experience at appropriations that by acting now through legislation congress can ensure the smooth as possible transition this is the best interest not only of the cfpb in congress but consumers and our economy i called my colleagues democrats and republicans to join me in supporting the sens

the constitution is so unambiguously clear that all legislative powers invested in congress. we hand over powers to write rules that have the force of law to the cfpb, that the legislative power. it only makes sense. that we actually exercise control over this body to which we delegated our own responsibility. i urge my colleagues to support our legislation. thank you, mr. chairman. >> can i offer one thing? i want to thank senator toomey, over the past few years, congratulations on finishing your service and returning to pennsylvania wherever you may go. and to senator shelby who over the past decade had the chance to work with him and his staff on so many things. many years ago he was very clairvoyant about data and data privacy. i want to thank him for all his work. >> thank you. >> thank you for those kind words. about accountability, we will turn the cfpb director can be fired by the president, the director confirmed by this body. the cfpb submit quarterly financial budgets, financial reports to omb, operations and budgets are subject to private-sector independent audit s

they tell us when legislative power is being exerseat all, validly or whatever. am i wrong about thinking about it in this way? mr. katyaly're absolutely right, justice jackson. so two points. one, we can't figure out what petitioners' theory honestly is. what they just told you is the opposite of what they started wi on page 1 of their brief, where they said state cour have no role. they said legislature mns legislature. but then you get caveat after caveat. it includes gorn. it includes referenda. it includes independent commissions t reply brief they say. then they state, well, but state courts can't do it, but maybe they can for federal review, maybe they can if it's procedural or non-stct. i mean, the one thing we know, they're not making teual argument anymore. now, with respect to thi federal function argument you were asking about, sledead rejects it. that's exactly what the minnesota supreme court said below. they actuay lled it a federal agency. and what this court did unanimously reversed and it said noecse, here, you are acting "as a lawmaking body,"

that is a legislative power. it makes sense if we exercise some control over this body to which we have delegated our own responsibility. i urge my colleagues to support our legislation. >> i did not get to do this and i wan to thank senator toomey. congratulations on finishing your service and return to pennsylvania or wherever you may go and senator shelby who has had the chance to work with him and staff and so many things and many years ago he was claire voi ant about data privacy and i thank him for all his work. senator brown: a moment about the accountability. cfpb director can be fired by the president. it submits quarrel financial reports to o.m.b. cfpb are subject to an independent audit and subject to numerous you had its and only banking regulator with a cap on its funding and audits the transactions and appears as you know painfully or not in front of this committee. these are some of the accountability measures and it's not really the objection here. and it is an effective watchdog to the watchdog.

shadow of the world's biggest, underground i in all mine. despite its name, the parliament has no legislative power. it's an elected representative body which advises the swedish government on sammy issues. but it's not truly independent from the state. it's overseen by a government ministry. coleman a whole and melanie elko, nevada, and stock leg sven's committee, the here august fall compo, gone, added complet, see it of that said at the we and i said now, so most ma, foia dawn marie, i, glen so south dunst madeline, set that up on doesn't answer sco mom bought at an end just for the saw me scuffled, get sammy like car and a frustrated over the limitations of the parliament. not until recently, the government hasn't been obliged to consult it. although that said to change with a new law that requires consultation on matters of special significance. i believe it will make a difference, but it's not in off hand, it would be needed to improve that. but i saw did also good development. early ghost presented steph and nicholson is a member of this army parliament and its former president. he says, the

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following movie in the program, but a really interesting program that talks about activities and legislative powerr addition. today. this is not only a story about the decisions made in the hall plenary sessions, the life of citizens in the regions, analytical stories about the situation in the country and the world , business trips of deputies to the regions and abroad, and much more, every issue of the parliamentary hour , as well as every week in the state duma , is different from the previous one. in general, the whole country has changed over the years and the parliamentary hour, as such, what is called a thermometer showed this temperature. how the intensity of the discussion of passions increases when discussing the most important laws, the laws by which our citizens live, laws that concern not two or three people, but the whole country from the smallest child who has just been born and took his first breath. yes, a person of advanced age of a society that watches such programs. in principle, it is getting younger every day, that is, the interest in the politics of young people is growing,

it would be an enormous strip of how the country legislates power.of the justices have signalled they're willing to hear the case. it's hard to know how they come down. >> everyone is listening closely and will be listening closely to amy coney barrett. "the wall street journal" is calling the panicked reaction to this case unconvincing and warning if the justices give license for state courts to overrule legislators 2024 could be a legal free for all. what's fascinating to me about this editorial, it seems like they're trying to take the concern we heard -- and as joan pointed out also from a number of conservative lawyers, the concern is it could be a free for all and flipping it on its head saying if they don't find in favor of this legal theory it's going to be mass chaos. what do you make of that? >> what's interesting is the break down of who's coming out against this in some way. a lot of conservative scholars and quite conservative ones -- jim mentioned this -- begging the supreme court of not going down this road. the idea this is a normal r

so perhaps this incident will help the government convince the legislative powers that be of the purse strings to change their minds while south korea also working on creating a drone jamming technology. but that in itself is still several years away from being implemented. the jcl also said that it's apology, it will try to acquire assets essential assets that can strike enemy drones with radio waves and lasers that were remains to be seen what that would entail or i will leave it there. thanks so much. eunice kim. meanwhile, across the border, north korean leader kim, german has opened. the meeting of the governing workers policy is often use the event to announce major policy decisions ahead of the new year. north korea has filed an unprecedented number of miss hall this year. jailed former south korean president lame young back, has received the presidential pardon. lee was serving a 17 year prison term for bribery and embezzlement. he is one of $1300.00 inmates, receive a special pardon. the 8th he one year old was granted a temporary release in june, due to poor health. the pardo

so perhaps this incident will help the government convince the legislative powers that be of the purse strings to change their minds. being all south korea also working on creating a drone jamming technology. but that in itself is still several years away from being implemented. the j. c. s also said that it's apology, it will try to acquire assets is central assets that can strike enemy drones with radio waves and lasers. the remains to be seen what that would entail a mile across the boulder. north korea leader kim jong learners opened the meeting of the governing workers party. he's often use the event to announce major policy decisions ahead of the new year. north korea is 5 record number of miss house and 2022. on taiwan has announced to plan to extend compulsory military service to counter threats from china. dozens of chinese planes crossed into, ty, pays defense zone on monday. aging is protesting against what it says is collusion and provocation by the island and the united states, taiwanese conscripts and will now serve in the military for one year. that's up from 4 months. i

international experts, and this our task with you and you as the fourth power and us as the legislative power to see that we have such pennies, we are fulfilling it thank you, it is with great regret that we have to let you vent on the alarm oleg duba, people's deputy of ukraine, a member of the verkhovna rada committee on the organization of state power, local self-government, regional of development and urban planning was working live now well, we warmed up a little and will continue to return to our shelter, we wish you the same, understanding our inability to achieve results on the battlefield, russia began massive shelling of civilian energy infrastructure began throughout ukraine, emergency power outages began, ukrainians had to adapt very quickly to new circumstances in war conditions, although of course this affected the life of every ukrainian, business and educational processes were introduced only from october 10 to 20 , russian troops struck about 300 strikes on ukraine's energy system energy workers drew up schedules of emergency power outages. however, very often the declared ad

, and most importantly, they see that we have a leader in our country and see that we have a legislative powerthey see that these actions are unified, and in many ways they even envy, then there is a situation that is happening in our country. i am deeply convinced. we are together we are united, we will win, next week the senators will consider topical issues. state cadastral estimates will be discussed with the results of monitoring the implementation of the federal infrastructure project for waste management of the first second hazard class of the digital transformation of the federal executive authorities of russia subjects and state-owned companies. and will consider issues related to the implementation of the federal project for the formation comfortable urban environment. follow the most important events in the federation council see you in a week in the senate program. typical ukraine program we talk about what made ukraine the way we know it today , typical and, of course, unique. that's what we're interested in. we hope it's interesting. and you sometimes happen by accident or as we

us, and most importantly, they see that we have a leader in our country and see that we have legislative powert these actions are unified and in many ways they even envy, that is, the situation that is happening in our country. i am deeply convinced. we are together we are united, we will win, the next day of the week, the senators are watching the current issues of the state cadastre. will discuss the results of monitoring the implementation of the federal infrastructure project for the management of waste of the first and second hazard class of the digital transformation of the federal executive authorities of russia, subjects and state-owned companies. and they will consider issues related to the implementation of the federal project for the formation of a comfortable urban environment. we continue to follow the most important events in the federation council . see you in a week in the senate program. you can’t drive past it, a general inspection of the car, they just said with a weapon, and it happens to watch account for. married, i was upset, but i understood that i had no other options.

but there is, until further notice and on the other hand, this vacuum of legislative power in north cannot be too big because then that brings up the question of authority. and if you cannot have, he is governance in there through. so all the will be keeping a close on the latest developments. thank you for putting it up to speed. technically you all take contributor in the serbian capital now, india essays. it will prioritize its energy needs and keep buying more oil from russia, which is the asian countries largest supply of crude utilities. defiance comes off, the western countries implemented a price cap on russian oil shipments most go how drastically increase his fuel exposed to india in the past few months. wanted to show more explain why new delhi has chosen to slide with washer and some calling an international energy war. moscow remains talk or supply or to new delhi. and this is the 2nd time interval detail suggest that in october, that was the very 1st time that russia have become in the else top or in supplier. and now in november again, for the 2nd time, india in fact has bee

wamsley on the legal news of the week including the supreme court, hearing the case of state legislative power, potential jen with six criminal referrals and possible legal trouble for former president trump. watch "washington journal" live at seven eastern friday morning, on c-span or on c-span now, our free mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook, it's come text messages and tweets. >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington live and on-demand. keep up with today's biggest events with live streams of floor proceedings and hearings from the u.s. congress, white house events, the court, campaigns and more from the world of politics all at your fingertips. you can also stay current with the latest episodes of "washington journal" and find scheduling information for c-span's tv networks in c-span radio plus a variety of compelling podcast. c-span now is available at the apple store and google play. download it for free today. c-span now, your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. >> now, former antiabortion

the supreme court but to have a view legislatures have significant power to shape the structure and operation of the court and legislatorsneral and this is part of something and certainly not part of the conversation that it is the full scope of article one powers especially with the necessary and proper clause but all of the other powers that exist in the constitution congress has the power to do something about it. so there is broad legislative power in a bunch of areas to do a lot more structuring than we think. but the people do make that argument to go back to i started. people in congress to advocate for their own constitutional authority so of those are professors working in the senate a lot of law professors work in the executive branch and there is scholarship that is pro- presidential and they think of how congress should be defending itself in the checks and balances system but to understand the legislator has great authority to do more answers the core question. . . . . spelled in the newspaper. it is a moment. and it is a moment we can begin to think at least three things to change a legal education. it's no

constitution out of the equation when it is giving the state legislature the authority to exercise legislative powerthe state constitution the governing body when it comes to elections, or is the constitution of the united states of america the power, and how do you square that circle for my viewers? that's the judiciary half the rights to say to a legislature, what do you have written here, this, lot does not comport with our constitution? >> certainly one parts of the responses arguments, ali, is that the state legislature are creatures of the state constitutions. therefore, the federal constitution in the elections clause takes the state legislatures as it finds them, namely, as bound by the state constitutions. so, that is how the respondents square the arguments. frankly, that is how i square the argument myself as well. >> so, what happens here? it seems to get, when i hear you talk about this, point obvious. it seems when i listened to kneel come to yell or others, quite obvious. and yet, the supreme court is considering this. there are three justices who appear prepared to accept the indepen

to reclaim our legislative power here,ed on what our forefathers envisioned us to have i -- i would be remission if i didn't mention one thing state spending i am proud of our states pound chest say we balanced our budget suspend gas tax where did you get this money from in you he got from it federal government a indication of i am okay you are okay guess what i am not okay. i got 31 trillion dollars in debt. >> root because of spiking inflation was federal spending koisted relief package 1.9 trillion passed into law march s '21, i digress great to see everybody buddy carter tyler good stooed thanks for being here see you tomorrow ashley webster for stu take ashley: god morning, everybody. i'm ashley webster in for stu. fed chair jerome powell said we could see smaller interest rate hikes this month. that sent stocks soaring yesterday to close out the month 2, 3, 4% gains but the rally a bit more subdued this morning as you can see. we're in the green but very modestly so, the dow, s&p and nasdaq up about a quarter of a percent or there abouts. meanwhile, take a look at bitcoin, which

consolidated within the speaker and the rules committee which basically grants them the special super-legislative powersare trying to make sure -- by the way, there's many more than five people. there were seven last week, another individual that came out this week. there was 36 members that voted against kevin in congress. there were 52 members that voted against earmarks. republicans have said, no, earmark decision is wrong. will: well, we heard from congressman mccarthy yesterday, we wanted to hear from one of five of you. we appreciate you giving us your perspective. >> thank you for having me on, will. merry christmas. will: i'll see if i can get that jacket for you. the most popular show on the -- character on the show today. rachel: it is. got its own mind. overland college made a $36 million to a family-operated bakery after falsely accusing the business of being racist. the bakery owner and her lawyer joined us earlier. >> it took the a tremendous toll, a lot of stress, a lot of financial toll. it definitely hit us hard. >> the college still doesn't get it. this should have been a teaching mome

until for republicans were coming into her house majority obviously do not have a lot of legislative power controlling only one bank branch of government. this will be a really great topic for oversight which is the greatest power they will have has a house majority i do think the timing of this is interesting with republicans coming into town just a few weeks. quick stop at the oversight here is james comer talking to fox news about investigating twitter biden let's listen. >> every info employee twitter who was involved in some suppressing bulb have the opportunity to come before congress and explain their actions to the american people. there was no evidence ever at any time that the laptop story was not legitimate. the "new york post" did a great job. i'm glad they're being vindicated. >> he promises an investigation of hunter biden and twitter print other democrats talking about ivanka trump and jared kushner her husband he got to billion dollar investment from saudi arabia she has had trademarks with china making hundreds of million's of dollars supposedly. what you say to critics if

constitution out of the equation, when it is given the state legislature the authority to exercise legislative power. it's the state constitution that's telling the legislature when and under what circumstances it can actually act as the legislature. so let me ask it this way -- what if what is at issue is not any particular exercise of the state's legislative authority, such an its ability to make time, place and manner determinations, but whether the bite that is purporting to exercise that power qualifies as this particular state legislature? >> reporter: so there's a lot of debate and talk here as to what exactly the founders intended, what the meaning of the constitution is, kate, because it's an election clause that the time, place and manner are determined by state legislatures, the big question is, is that the end game? is it just stayed legislatures, or is that power checked? that's the big tension point here. the argument is still going on, probably will be going on for a while, and a decision not expected under probably the springtime. >> jess, thank you so much. >>> a major plot to overt

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this is an opportunity for the supreme court to interpret the constitution as giving state legislators unbridled powerdeciding and interpreting elections. in past times, state courts and governors have stepped in and made the rules. the supreme court justices did not seem keen to make a sweeping ruling but there is still a possibility. laura: anthony, thank you. the u.n. -- montreal to agree a new deal to save forests and oceans from irreversible human destruction. our climate editor, justin. reporter: the summit in montrÉal is about protecting biodiversity anthe species that constitute the web of life on earth. the biggest creature that exists on the planet. >> imagine a spider web. the more web you have, if you cut one strands, it does not collapse. all of them support each other. when you start cutting all of these strands, no one notices, but then suddenly it collapses. reporter: we are destroying the web of life faster than ever before. the last dodo. more than one million species are now on the brink of extinction. look how global wildlife populations have declined. down more than two thirds sin

there is a parliament - this is the legislative power.a president of the council of ministers. the vertical is the executive branch. what is the whole russian collection a strategic political body that will not interfere with activities, for example, the liberal democratic party, but i will watch its decisions as the leader of the party, because the people have decided, and within the framework of these decisions we will argue with the communists. so uh, by the way, about sports yes, more about political parties. the most important thing is that the president said here that the entire belarusian people's assembly is responsible for the function. that's it. uh, recognition of the system's legitimacy and continuity. that's when we say stabilizer. this is actually our answer to the maidan. let's tell us directly that they wanted to make a ukrainian scenario here in 2020. they have this negativity scenario, that is, lawlessness, chaos, anarchy, riots, coup d'état. we propose a system that will stabilize and be responsible for legitimacy. and

taking place long period of time we are supposed to control purse strings got to reclaim our legislative powerur forefathers envisioned us to have i -- i would be remission if i didn't mention one thing state spending i am proud of our states pound chest say we balanced our budget suspend gas tax where did you get this money from in you he got from it federal government a indication of i am okay you are okay guess what i am not okay. i got 31 trillion dollars in debt. >> root because of spiking inflation was federal spending koisted relief package 1.9 trillion passed into law march s '21, i digress great to see everybody buddy carter tyler good stooed thanks for being here see you tomorrow ashley webster for stu take ashley: god morning, everybody.

constitution out of the equation when it is giving the state legislature the authority to exercise legislative power this is a proposal that gets rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country. and you might think that it gets rid of all of those checks and balances at exactly the time when they are needed most. >> joining me is democratic governor roy cooper of north carolina. governor cooper, thank you for being here. i want to give both a little bit of the concept of what you are dealing with in your state, just a little contest. your state of north carolina is the state that in 2016 passed voting laws that were said by an appellate court to target african americans with almost surgical precision. that was your state where they got rid of college id, registration, all sorts of things to make it harder to vote. they tried to strip you because you as a democrat were elected governor of your actual powers and to neuter the office of governor simply because it was held by a democrat. that's who they are. are you concerned that the supreme court --

we do have to have a view that legislatures have significant power to actually shape the structure and operations of the court. and legislators in general have significant power and i think this is part of something that usually doesn't get taught enough in maybe some of our constitutional law classes and certainly not part of the conversation and even among people in congress is the full scope of article one power, the clause that does not just say that they have the necessary and foregoing powers in article one, but all the others in the constitution, if there's a power, congress has the power to do something about it. and so, there's actually quite broad legislative power in a whole bunch of areas to do a lot more structuring than we think, but i don't think that they get as much attention, and the people to make that argument to go back to where i started in the first instance are people in congress, who should be advocating for their own constitutional authorities. and mentioned that she's one of 2% of law professors who worked in the senate and i also worked in the senate and a lot of them work in the executive branch a

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and so les actually quite broad -- there's actually quite broad legislative power in a whole bunch of areas to do a lot more structuring than we think, but i think these arguments don't get as much attention. and, you know, the people to make that argument, to go back to where i started in the first instance, are people in congress who should be advocating for their own constitutional authority. you know, vic mentioned that she's one of 2 of law professors who have -- 2% of law professors who work in the senate. i also worked in the senate. but a lot of law professors actually work in the executive branch. and you get a lot of scholarship that is pro-presidential. many butter work in congress and think about -- fewer who work in congress. there's a bunch of structural reasons why it's -- the for congress to defend itself in our checks and balances system, but i think thinking about and understanding hat legislature has great authority to do more is part of answering the court question. >> well, i agree. i thought that was brilliant, josh. i, you know, i do think that i started out wit

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