you'll recall it was raised and madison objected to it. it was then withdrawn and is not part of the criteria. maladministration is not a ground for impeachment. if the house were to impeach on maladministration, it would be placing itself above the law. there's no doubt about that because the framers specifically objected to maladministration. it's comparable to the abuse of power. now it's been confined to include abuse, corruption, misrule, dishonesty, misuse of office and misbehavior. professor bowie in his article in today's "new york times" equates abuse of power with, quote, misconduct in office. misconduct in office. t thus supporting the view that when the framers rejected maladministration, they also rejected abuse of power as a criteria for impeachment. blackstone denominated it as a high misdemeanor, punishable by the method of impeachable where such penalties are inflicted. he included imprisonment. you could be imprisoned for maladministration. despite this british history, madison insisted it be rejected as criteria for impe

james madison expressed concerns about the president being improperly dependent on the legislature. others worried about a feeble executive. .. hearing these and other arguments against turning the new rebellion to a parliamentary democracy in which slow the judge later had a power to the president the framers set out to strike the appropriate talents between the broad concerns that led them to vote for a provisional authorizing the impeachment of the president and the need for specific criteria, not subject to legislative abuse or overuse. amon not subject to legislative abuse or overuse. among the criteria proposed were malpractice, the collective duty, mal conduct, neglect in the execution of office and, this will come back and talk about, mal administration. there was a response that last term, a term used in britain as a criteria for impeachment that madison responded so vague a term with the equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the senate. upon hearing madison's objections colonelon mason withdrew maladministration and substituted other high crimes and misdemeanors. h

madison? i went home and drank. [laughter] this book was part of the work for the center for civic literacy. what an effort to compile every single citizen needs to understand about our government and our economy, and the difference between science and religion. one of the things i am hopeful inut is we will reinvest civic education. if we know what our constitution says, if we know what our history was, i am confident we can come to a lot of agreement and put this country back on a path towards at least amity. oure are going to huddle in bubbles and only believe what -- go on to the internet and have confirmation bias tell us where we are going, then the american experiment doesn't work. then we are this collection of constituencies trying to contend for power, and we are not really american anymore. to indianapolis is a book tv exclusive, and we showed it today to introduce you to c-span cities tour. for nine years, we have traveled u.s. cities, bringing the book scene to our viewers. you ca

james madison responded directly to mason's concern. because mason's concern was that the power may be too broad, that the president might misuse his pardon power to pardon his own coconspirators and prevent the discoveries on guilt. madison responded, if the president be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the house of representatives can impeach him, they can remove him if found guilty. the north carolina ratifying convention would go on to serve on the supreme court, responded to the same concern. he assured delegates that if the president abused his power with "some corrupt motive or other" he would be liable to impeachment." in the early 1800s this understanding was echoed by a supreme court justice, he rejected equation of crimes and impeachable offenses which he stated must be examined upon very broad and comprehensive principles of public policy and duty. later in american history, chief justice and former president william howard taft as well as chief justice c

of james madison, he was with has been discussed about the future ofjames madison, he was with a big was left to his teammate. the equaliser, finally, the first leg and level. leicester city's new history will have to wait. james anderson says he's frustrated to be missing the rest of england's tour of south africa with a broken rib. he picked up the injury during their second test win in cape town and is expected to be out for 6 to eight weeks. he's onlyjust returned after five months out with a calf problem but former england seamer ryan sidebottom has backed england's leading wicket taker to come back from the latest setback. the older you get, those little niggles take a fraction longer to heal. injuries start creeping in that he will be determined. he is very driven, he offers so much and let's not just very driven, he offers so much and let's notjust writing. as you get older, you need to keep the body going and bowl as much as you can and it is difficult for him, as a bowler, when you stop, when you have a weeks break, it is difficult to then get into a rhythm but he will come

madison the major concern of the society has to be to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. and here argument suppose everyone had to vote freely and say well the majority of the poor get together and they would organize to take away the property of the rich and he said that would obviously be unjust so you can't have that so therefore the constitutional system has to be set up to prevent democracy. which is of some interest that this debate has a horror tradition goes back to the 1st major book on political systems aristotle's politics. he says of all of them the best is democracy and at any point said exactly the flaws that manderson pointed out. if absent were a democracy for free men the poor would get together and take away the property the rich. well the same dilemma they had opposite solutions aristotle proposed what we would nowadays call a welfare state to try to reduce inequality. so the same problem that solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem and the other is reduced democracy. if you look at the history of the united states it's a con

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in the city of madison, police arrested an illegal alien for assault and after authorities released him, he committed violent battery, only to be released one more time. they are now looking for him. isn't that nice? the same illegal alien was arrested for a third time in september and charged with multiple sexual assaults, including sexual assault of a child. now that criminal is once again in wisconsin jail, and i call on your wet -- left-wing officials

changed dramatically from the blame amendment era, and decided they were going to side with james madison one of the fathers of our constitution, and continue to say we don't want aid to churches. >> perhaps you can comment? >> that was one of the points i was going to make. every time the state points to that in its brief, and i think page 30 and 31, and what madison was talking about were compelled support laws. preferential aid to the church. the state said there is zero founding evidence that you could have a generally available benefit and unite it to an institution justice thomas i think walks through the history of the opposite, when they gave out land in the northwest territory and other statutes to schools. they included religiously affiliated schools. the tradition that dates to the founding is the opposite. you can have no compelled support, no preferential aid to the church. that's important to what's going on here. >> what do you think of this? i'm having trouble and i want you to tell me what you think about this. probably an answer you would have thought about. say in san f

we have founding father madison lobbying heavily for the free exercise clause and equally to stop states from both establishing religions or using public funds to support them. there's been over -- since the founding fathers -- a long history of people who for nondiscriminatory reasons, for reasons related to their belief in the separation of church and state, that had taken the position that the state should not give money to religious institutions. you are suggesting now that montana in 1972 went through an empty exercise. they looked at the history of this amendment or one like it. said it was odious. admitted some of its people who in 1972 saids bill it was a despicable history, but then they looked at the founding fathers' writings. they looked at the state of montana as religious tolerance, which had changed dramatically from the blaine amendment era, and decided they were going to side with james madison. one of the fathers of our constitution. and continue to say we don't want aid to churches. >> perhaps you could comment, counsel? >> justice sotomayor, that was one of the two po

let's see madison. >> madison!there's madison. >> flew in on the paper airplane that gleam in her eye, that smile. peter -- she's already met peter's family. you get the idea? >> i do. >> madison is the winner. >> there it is. jack, i think that might have been jimmy kimmel's pick as well. >> is that right? >> i think so. >> i'll tell you right now, i did not watch. i did not, didn't know about kimmel. >> i'm not accusing you. >> and i do not read the spoilers, so write that down, folks. on that note, analyst out. >> analyst out! >> thank you, jack. >> i'm not accusing you of being a houston astro and cheating. >> we appreciate that, he said it, you heard it here first, madison. >>> next up, pilot pete may be having a dramatic time looking for love but some hollywood a-listers got no love at all for yesterday's oscar nominations. >> most notably j. lo, jennifer lopez. many thought she was a shoo-in for supporting actress nod for "hustlers" but the academy stripped those hopes. >> on the other hand, some good news f

that was madison's genius, he recognized, that so what i'm? i i am, one ninth, of one third, of our federal government, which is one half, of the government in our federal system. divide, power that was the wisdom of medicine, that all sounds pretty academic, maybe a little walk, -ish i confessed when i learned all of that, which yes, i'm old enough that i had to take, it sounded pretty dry, but as a judge, i came to realize, and see, in the real world, impact, muddying up the separation of powers has on your liberty, let me give you just a few examples, what happens when judges, actives legislators? and instead of following the law, faithfully? begin to make things up,. maybe the first real departure of the united states supreme court, from the constitution, as it was originally written, was dred scott, internet scott the supreme court of the united states held the white persons, had the right to own black persons, in the territories of the united states. and they said that right could be found in the fifth amendments to process cause. which

you could imagine if there was a sports book in the madison square garden. can't imagine it is good for themetro area but good for the company. msg will have scarce value and right now there are few publicly traded sports team most of them aren't. liberty media owns the braves. that is wrapped up with media and real estate and united team has been a lousy performer remember when the celtics were public that is a good one it will be nice and straightforward and the packers is more ceremonial i think this has the potential to become a cold stock because of the built in fan base like the accessible ferrari which was spun out and has a great fan base but there is one big negative. i'm talking about the ownership structure. currently james dolan holds 71% of the voting power in the company special super-voting stock. it is like a junker state. and after the breakup, you still have controlling in the sports business in other words you could own part of the team but the public sherrods won't make any decisions here that is a problem. because even though james dolan

upon hearing madison's objections colonel mason withdrew maladministration and substituted other high crimes and misdemeanors. had he delegated proposed inclusion of abuse of power or obstruction of congress as a enumerated defined for impeachment history strongly suggests that madison would have similarly opposed it and it would have been rejected. i will come back to that argument a little later on when i talk specifically about abuse of power. indeed, madison worried that a partisan legislator could even miss use the word misdemeanor to include a broad array of non- crimes so he proposed moving the trial to the nonpartisan supreme court. the proposal was rejected. this does not mean that some have suggested that madison suddenly changed his mind and favored such misuse to expand the meaning of a misdemeanor to include broad terms like misbehavior. no, it meant he feared that the word misdemeanor could be abused and his fears have proven to be prescient and by the house in this case. the best evidence that the broad concerns cited by the framers suggested by impeachment were not aut

upon hearing madison's objections colonel mason withdrew maladministration and substituted other high crimes and misdemeanors. had he delegated proposed inclusion of abuse of power or obstruction of congress as a enumerated defined for impeachment history strongly suggests that madison would have similarly opposed it and it would have been rejected. i will come back to that argument a little later on when i talk specifically about abuse of power. indeed, madison worried that a partisan legislator could even miss use the word misdemeanor to include a broad array of non- crimes so he proposed moving the trial to the nonpartisan supreme court. the proposal was rejected. this does not mean that some have suggested that madison suddenly changed his mind and favored such misuse to expand the meaning of a misdemeanor to include broad terms like misbehavior. no, it meant he feared that the word misdemeanor could be abused and his fears have proven to be prescient and by the house in this case. the best evidence that the broad concerns cited by the framers suggested by impeachment were not aut

mother, we learned that madison's killer is now in mexico.exican authorities will do the right thing and help bring that kill tore justice as soon as possible. san francisco, meanwhile, has become america's most unlivable cities unless you are incredibly rich don't try it. stays that way because of the part-time running it into the ground. we will profile america's d.a. foyer you taupe i can't. a rally going on right now in toledo, ohio. we will go there immediately if news breaks which it might. >> now they take it back. they have been great, actually. they have been really good. we paid them a lot of money. we paid them $500 million a year. can you believe we paid them 500 million el salvadorians. o. >> tucker: armstrong has a degree in electrical engineering. she works at a tech company in california. she is in the top 5% of her achievement in this country. you think she would be doing fine. unfortunately she lives in san francisco which means she has to take drastic measures to cope with the highest housing cost in the nation. some of the

can the president ask with maladministration with impunity that is a question you could is james madison but it's not an impeachable crime. maladministration is not impeachable and abuse of power is not impeachment. issue is not whether crime is required but whether abuse of power is a permissible constitutional criteria and the answer from the history is clearly unequivocally no and if that had been put through the framers they would have rejected it with the same certainly they rejected maladministration. >> the first said treeson of bribery. that was rejects because it wasn't inclusive enough. somebody put maladministration. found too vague. so they said high crimes and misdemeanors and a well understand law in the hastings impeachment going on and meant primarily abuse of power. that's the main meaning of high crimes and misdemeanor. charles pinckney said those who betray this will be held in public trust and i quoted a story the other day every impeachment in american history has been for abuse of power in one form or another. the idea you have to have a crime. bribery is right ther

so what madison said was actually we can have a larger public is long as there are different interest and no factions emerged and to build the public good. and in a backdrop and in that constitutional convention and that degree of similarity among those people and women are not considered part of the political community that madison and others were thinking about and that was the foundation for that but the argument is about a sense of a political project. that we see the challenges in each other and it is in contrast to two different things. where there is zero sum that my winning has to be your losing. and then to think of the role differently. but in terms of the ethics of our democracy. and if you have the conservative writers i worry a lot about liberalism. and then to push too far towards individualism. and that we don't think only about ourselves. and then to talk about it on the conservative side how can we think about that in places where that is built? we can move just beyond the civil societies and where we make connections. and then to deepen and also to build a profit and

james madison responded directly to mason's concern because mason's concern was that the pardon powermight be too broad. the president might misuse his broad pardon power to pardon his own co-conspirators. madison responded if the president be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there are grounds to shelter the house of representatives kedah phm, remove them if found guilty. at the north carolina ratifying the convention responded to the same concern. he assured delegates that if the president abused his power with quote some corrupt motive or other he would be liable to impeachment. in the early 1800s this understanding was echoed by supreme court justice story wrote his famous treatise on the constitution. there he rejected the equation of crimes and impeachable offenses which he stated must be examined upon very broad and comprehensive principles of public policy and duty. later in american history chief justice and former president william howard taft as well as chief justice charles evans hughes publicly stated that impeachable offenses are not limited to crime

james madison's answer, you bet. if men were angels, no government would be necessary. james madison meets donald trump. >> there are no crimes, they are impeaching me. >> two flimsy, pathetic, ridiculous articles of impeachment. >> while nancy pelosi stays the course. >> this is about the constitution of united states. don't mess with me. >> at issue a phone call with the president of ukraine. >> my call was perfect. >> no pressure, no pushing and more quid pro quo. >> others heard much worse. >> he had a desperate man on the phone and he asked a desperate man for a favor. >> corrupting and abusing the office of the president. >> the debate gets ugly fast. >> they dislike us so much, they're willing to weaponize the government. this is scary stuff. dangerous for the country. >> come on, get real, be serious. >> we know what happened here. 17 witnesses. it is uncontradicted. >> these people are stone cold, crooked. >> the president is impeached. history becomes the only guide. bill clinton impeached when he lied about sex. >> i did not have sexual relation with that wom

september 1787 it was madison said let's have a tight definition of impeachment. you don't want a partisan effort alleging no crimes the get rid of a president. i could go on here. but martha's comment about why is he bringing china with the bidens in this? the bidens couldn't be happy about that. if this goes to witnesses, are we going to talk to the chinese partners and the private equity firm that five years after they went in business with hunter biden couldn't explain what he did there? i just -- i can't believe this is where they want to go. >> bill: smart strategy, juan? >> juan: i think right now what you're seeing is also a political narrative. it will drive beyond the impeachment. so this is a message being sent to the american people about president trump. in that regard, the key struggle right now is over witnesses. it remains the question should witnesses have -- appear after the president's team puts on their defense and -- >> bill: at the moment, are you inclined to hear from witnesses or not, would you say? >> juan: what we're hearing but listening

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james madison put it simply. president quote, might betray his trust to foreign powers. in his farewell address george washington warned americans to be constantly awake since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most bainful foes of republican government. john adams in a letter to thomas jefferson wrote you are apprehensive of foreign interference, intrigue influence, so am i. but as far as elections happen, the danger of foreign influence recurs. or to quote, the president's chief of staff, get over it. there's going to be politics in adamst. and i don't thinthmes madison's point and i don't think that was george washington's point. if it was, they would have said get over it. they recognize as we recognize what a profound danger that would be for that to become the new norm. another election is a promise. 10 months voters will undertake the most important duty as citizens by going to the polls and voting for their leader. we must ask what role do foreign powers play trying to influence the outcome. if they take the president's side, who wi

madison responded if the president be convicted connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there will be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the house of representatives can impeach him and remove him if found guilty. james iredell would go on to serve on the supreme court responded to the same concerns and assured delegates that if the president abused his power with him corrupt motive or other you would be liable to impeachment. and in the early 1800s this understanding was echoed by supreme court justice story who wrote his famous treatise on the constitution.there he rejected the equation of crimes and impeachable offenses which he stated must be examined upon broad and comprehensive principles of public policy and duty. later in american history chief justice and former president taft as well as chief justice charles evans hughes publicly stated that impeachable offenses are not limited to crimes but instead capture a broaderrange of misconduct . indeed under chief justice taft, the supreme court unanimously observed that abuse of the president's pardon power could

i join james madison who was very concerned that using open-ended phrases could create a way in which congress should have too much power over the president. i join alexander hamilton who said the greatest danger is when impeachment turns on the number of votes each party can get. so i'm there to try to defend the integrity of the constitution. that benefits president trump in this case. >> listen, i think everybody should have the best defense possible in any courtroom. jeff toobin, what do you make of professor dershowitz's argument about the constitution not -- >> i think it's wrong. i mean, alan's position, and i don't want to mischaracterize it, is that -- impeachment should only apply to criminal offenses. >> that's not my position. >> why don't you say what it is. >> my position is clear. the framers said treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. other refers to matters that are close in kind. professor tribe grease on this part of the analysis they don't have to be specific criminal offenses but they have to be like treason, like bribery. >> so abuse of power is

. >>> live pictures coming in from outside madison square garden. tributes to kobe bryant all over the country, indeed, and much of the world right now. people are reacting to the death of kobe bryant and his young daughter, gianna, only 13 years old and seven other wonderful people. michael jordan just issued a statement. i am in shock over the tragic news of kobe bryant and gianna's passing. i love kobe. he's like a little brother to me. we used to talk often. i will miss the conversations. he was one of the greats of the game and a creative force. kobe was also an amazing dad who loved his family deeply and took great pride in his daughter's love for the game of basketball. we give our deepest condolences tova -- >> there's no words to express the pain i'm going through with this tragedy of losing my niece gigi and my brother kobe. i love you, and you will be missed. my condolences goes out to the bryant family and the other passengers on board. i'm sick right now. and then here's kareem abdul-jabbar. >> it's very difficult for me to put in words

appreciate it. >> since that interview, since speaking to madison's monarch, would learn that madison'sr apparently is now in simla mexico, you help mexican authorities will do the right thing at help bring that killer to justice as soon as possible. san francisco meanwhile has become america's most unlivable city, and lester and clay to be incredibly looked rich -- it stays that way because people running into the ground. next we will profile the city's new d.a., america's dystopiari next. keeping one eye on the presidents rally going on right now in toledo, ohio, we go there immediately if news breaks. >> but now they take them back. they've been great actually. they've been really good. and we pay them a lot of money. with paid them $500 million a year, can you believe we pay them 500 million, the three of them, el salvador. and i said -- ♪ robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. o.

might be favorable to the republic.s indeed, no fewer than four delegates in the convention, madison plus morris, mason and randolph listed corruption as a central reason why presidents must be subject to impeachment and removal from office. impeachment was especially necessary for presidential conduct affecting the system of self-government.w the framers foresaw and feared that a president might someday place his personal interest in the reelection above the abiding commitment to democracy. such a president interview with me to be removed from office. office. professor feldman made at this pointhispoint in his testimony e the house judiciary committee. >> the framers reserved impeachment for situations where the president abused his office, that is used it for his personal advantage, and in particular, they were specifically worried a situation where the president used his office to facilitate corruptly his own reelection. that's why they thought they needed to impeachment and waiting for the next election wasn't good enough. >> professor feldman's testimony is grounded in the recor

. >> assigned to the case at the time a police investigator darren madison along with kings county police investigator and have worked other cases in hanford california. out among the suburbs and almond orchards and giant, odorous dairy farms that splay across the miles of flat valley floor. but this one did not smell right at all, said madison. >> it appeared she was drug out of the house against her will. in 28 years i have never seen that before. >> reporter: whatever happened here must have been planned, thought out. >> it looked like a staged crime scene. her jewelry in her bedroom neatly laid out. just where she had put it. nothing was missing but her and her van. >> reporter: had somebody trying to make it look like debbie hawk had been kidnapped or was the intention, a failed intention, perhaps, that she just left home. >> i believe it was designed to look like a missing persons case. the bed was made. most of your crooks don't do that. >> reporter: and had the perpetrator been looking for something? >> there was paperwork normally put away at least stacked up. it wasn't. it was s

in my humble opinion, why wouldn't madison use the word rival? is because the framers of the constitution, i think, did not want the king. they did not want a dictator. they did not want a monarch. they wanted a democracy. the constitution is sacred the obligatory upon all. it is through that lens that we proceed today. for the next few moments i will discuss donald trump's july 20 fifth phone call with you crane's newly elected leader. the president claims his call was perfect, nothing could be further from the truth. the call is direct evidence of donald trump's solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 election as part of a corrupt scheme. it is important to remember the context of this call. a new ukrainian president, volodymyr zelinsky, was in a vulnerable position and viewed american and diplomatic military support as critical to his standing and to ukraine's fragile future as a democracy. equally significant as outlined by my colleagues, america has a strong national security interest in supporting ukraine against russia's continued

james madison pointed out that the legislative executive and judicial departments most in the exercise of their functions be guided by the text of the constitution according to its own interpretation of it. it was recognized that there would be friction. similarly, in federalist '51, james madison pointed out that the great security against a gradual concentration of those same powers in the same department consists in giving to those that administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others. this is checks and balances. this friction, the clashing between the branches is not evidence of an impeachable offense. it is the separation of powers in its practical operation. as part of the constitutional design. now the proper and historically accepted way that these disagreements have been resolved is through the constitutionally mandated accommodations process. courts have explained that the branches are required to engage in the accommodations process to resolve disagreements where there is a clash over a demand for inform

and madison wanted very limited criteria. if they wanted to put abuse of power in, they could. let me give you another example. madison talked a lot about what if a president becomes incapacitated bust they didn't put incapacitation in as grounds for impeachment. head to amend the constitution. nobody will vote for it though. unless a president is accused of president, presidents have been accused of abuse of power from the beginning of time. >> very interesting. i want to play for you something that would seem to also create high crimes problems which is, sure. mr. giuliani who is not currently publicly slated to be a part of team that you're on arguing in the senate, has been out there saying the president sent him off to do these things abroad. some of these things, the impeachment managers, the democrats argue are crimes. take a listen to how that conflicts with what the president has. . here we go. >> what was rudy giuliani doing in ukraine your behalf? >> you have to ask that to rudy. i know he was going to ukraine. >> you didn't direct hip to go there on your behalf? >>

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clause at the constitutional convention where it was offered as grounds for impeachment and james madison responded that was a bad idea and he said that is equivalent to the tenure and that is the deep-seated concern that madison had as design of the constitution for ways to lead to arbitrary power. and to put all forms of government power one of the great mechanisms is a separation of powers the structural separation of power but it also comes from and the concern that those big standards they themselves are an opportunity for the expansion of power and to exercise arbitrary power. and that impeachment clause as well that's why as the n governor argued discussing the impeachment clause that they ought to bee impeachable and to be enumerated and defined. and that many terms had been included in an earlier draft when narrowed down to treason and bribery and with the administration and fairgrounds of impeachment. but they said it was too vague and expansive allowing for arbitrary exercises of power. is to stand in with that concern. and then to have that vague concept that is malleable and

the james madison institute's board of members. he is a member of the enterprise leadership program. -- he had dinner last night with law students and was very helpful in helping them think through their career plans, their studies, their curriculum, and he is also generous to becoming his time here to us. he assured me in welcoming justin pierce. [applause] >> thank you. thank you alan for that generous introduction. thank you all for having me. it is an honor to be here. i have one of the greatest jobs in the world. i wake up everyday and i sue the government. it is a lot of fun. our highly recommended. i am a constitutional lawyer for public interest law firm. what that means is i never sue for money, and i never charge my clients anything. my salary and costs are paid for by donors. instead, i go across the nation representing small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs in pro bono cases where represent them free of charge and ask judges to throughout unconstitutional law. something i love doing. it is tied in with the who

and james madison responded that that was a bad idea and he said, so vague a term will be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the senate and that had deep-seated concern that madison had and its whole design of our constitution, ways it can lead to exercise of arbitrary power. the constitution was designed to put limits and checks on all forms of government power and obviously, one of the great mechanisms was the separation of powers, structural separations of power in our constitution, but it also comes from defining and limiting powers and responsibilities, and a concern that vague terms, vague standards are themselves an opportunity for the expansion of power in the exercise of oarbitrary power and we see that in the impeachment clause. and that's why morgan discussed that only a few offenses, a few offenses ought to be impeachable and the cases awed to be enumerated and defined. that's why we see the debate at the constitution, many times had been included in earlier drafts when it was narrowed down to treason and bribery, and there was a suggestion to include maladmini

of a.j., he is on the steering committee for the federal society miami chapter , is on the james madisonnstitute board of directors and , and is a member of the american enterprise institute's leadership network. justin was very kind last night to have dinner with a group of law students and was very helpful in helping them think through their career plans, their studies, their curricula, and he is also generous to be giving his time here to us today , so please join us in welcoming justin pearson. [applause] earson: thank you. thank you, allen, for that generous introduction. thank you all for having me. it's an honor to be here. i have one of the greatest jobs in the world. i wake up every morning, at i sue the government. it's a lot of fun. i highly recommend it. i am a constitutional lawyer for a prestigious law firm called institute for justice. what that means is i never sue for money, and i never charge my clients anything. my salary and costs are paid for by over 14,000 donors. i go across the nation representing all business owners pro bono, free of charge. this is something i l

not i don't feel i don't see the president my parents have been going through a lot raising me and madison and so it's time flies to provide for all of our lives for myself it's good to be born in a big family because if i don't have something i can depend on my says that he's always somebody who could have me. on her way back to work later visits that hold sprue or to endangered species center. here in a taj looks after orphaned rhinos whose parents were killed by poachers. it has happened so many times that's the rhino sees its mother being shocked and it does affect it really does affect to see the end by the being killed or to have to feel poor mamma stopped waking up it's it's heartbreaking. that the visit reminds later on why her job is so important. to you but in this generation a lot of my kids to not doing so if we didn't use all the writing as the next generation they would never annoyed or a news that was just seating peaches but they will never get to see the real thing . so despite the risks later mecca baylor will continue to get up every morning before 6 to go out on patrol

as james madison wrote in the federalist papers, the purpose bicameralism is to guard gainst the dangers of encroachment and to stop toxic resolutions from taking effect. we saw separation of powers prevail against an abuse of power. constitution intends. the idea of withholding a sloppy mpeachment case to force the senate to change its rules is constitutionally and politically of.ard frankly, it's just ridiculous. 5, the le 1, section constitution clearly states -- the house may determine roles of its proceedings. it doesn't say the house may roles of its proceedings in the senate. he speaker's actions have only persuaded members of the senate that evidence of -- that the impeachment was neither thuro or satisfactory. satisfactory. let's be honest. this was never about persuasion. about the rule of law. it was about alexander alexander is what hamilton warned us, that one arty would get control, and just because of the animosity process of the impeachment. and by selecting these particular batch of managers, further proven she's not interested in winning hearts, or even following the co

it's not i don't feel i don't feel a present my parents have been going through a lot raising me and madison and so it's time for us to to provide for all of our lives well myself it's good to be born in a big family because if i don't have something i can depend on my says that he's always somebody who could have me. on her way back to work later visits that hold sprue it endangered species center. here in a town she looks after orphaned or i knows whose parents were killed by poachers. and it has happened so many times that's the law and i see its mother being shocked and it does affect it really does affect to see the end by the being killed or have to feel poor mamma stopped waking up it's it's heartbreaking. for me to visit reminds later of why her job is so important. but in these to like each to not doing so if we do all the right. they will never get rain as there was just seating peaches but they will never get to see. so despite the risks later myka baylor will continue to get up every morning before 6 to go out on patrol and save the rhinoceros. ho ho for. half. a journey into the

removed from office and what we're seeing here with impeachment is just as some of the founders with madison hamilton wrote that whatever party controls whichever house of congress ultimately leads to where the votes are going to be the only bipartisan vote that there has been in this process has been against these 2 articles of impeachment so i'm one who's very much believe that this is an impeachment witch hunt as i've called as president trump has called it and i'm actually one from the republican side who supports president trump who would like to see a more robust a thorough trial because i don't think the democrats will stop with this impeachment effort i think they're going to continue with other impeachment efforts in the future and it's only till we go through and truly snuff out and flush out all of these arguments in really the foreign policy disagreement that started this there were never going to reach some kind of consensus and it's got part of this jason as a trial and part of it as a comment on what redline for the president the united states should not go across and i know y