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Benjamin Wittes

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468 total appearances

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The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this on the border. If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this. But ultimately, the only conclusion one can come to is – it looks like the conclusion that our friends at National Review came to over the weekend.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this on the border. If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this. But ultimately, the only conclusion one can come to is – it looks like the conclusion that our friends at National Review came to over the weekend.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this on the border. If you wanted to do this, there was a more systematic way to do this. But ultimately, the only conclusion one can come to is – it looks like the conclusion that our friends at National Review came to over the weekend.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

When it seems as if the administration wants to test the limits of executive power, so they don't care – If they knowingly essentially violate the law and see how hard is the judiciary going to push back, how hard is the Supreme Court going to push back? And I promise you this is you know, I keep using this metaphor.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

When it seems as if the administration wants to test the limits of executive power, so they don't care – If they knowingly essentially violate the law and see how hard is the judiciary going to push back, how hard is the Supreme Court going to push back? And I promise you this is you know, I keep using this metaphor.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

When it seems as if the administration wants to test the limits of executive power, so they don't care – If they knowingly essentially violate the law and see how hard is the judiciary going to push back, how hard is the Supreme Court going to push back? And I promise you this is you know, I keep using this metaphor.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

But if you give if you give this administration a cookie, they're going to come back and take more and take more and take more and take more. So it is a very cynical argument. view of the executive that this administration has taken. And you have people around the president that are looking to essentially turn this country into a... It's not a republic if the executive gets too strong.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

But if you give if you give this administration a cookie, they're going to come back and take more and take more and take more and take more. So it is a very cynical argument. view of the executive that this administration has taken. And you have people around the president that are looking to essentially turn this country into a... It's not a republic if the executive gets too strong.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

But if you give if you give this administration a cookie, they're going to come back and take more and take more and take more and take more. So it is a very cynical argument. view of the executive that this administration has taken. And you have people around the president that are looking to essentially turn this country into a... It's not a republic if the executive gets too strong.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

It's a borderline monarchy. And in fact, I do find it interesting that the governor of Massachusetts... On April 19th, the anniversary of the shot heard around the world, had this to say at a rally. She said the following. This is Maura Healy, Democratic governor of Massachusetts. She was in Concord, Massachusetts. Again, home, Concord and Lexington, right?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

It's a borderline monarchy. And in fact, I do find it interesting that the governor of Massachusetts... On April 19th, the anniversary of the shot heard around the world, had this to say at a rally. She said the following. This is Maura Healy, Democratic governor of Massachusetts. She was in Concord, Massachusetts. Again, home, Concord and Lexington, right?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

It's a borderline monarchy. And in fact, I do find it interesting that the governor of Massachusetts... On April 19th, the anniversary of the shot heard around the world, had this to say at a rally. She said the following. This is Maura Healy, Democratic governor of Massachusetts. She was in Concord, Massachusetts. Again, home, Concord and Lexington, right?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

Home of the shot heard around the world. We live in a moment when our freedoms are once again under attack from the highest office in the land. We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary predecessors, the silencing of critics, the disappearing of people from our streets, demands for unquestioning fealty.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

Home of the shot heard around the world. We live in a moment when our freedoms are once again under attack from the highest office in the land. We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary predecessors, the silencing of critics, the disappearing of people from our streets, demands for unquestioning fealty.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

Home of the shot heard around the world. We live in a moment when our freedoms are once again under attack from the highest office in the land. We see things that would be familiar to our revolutionary predecessors, the silencing of critics, the disappearing of people from our streets, demands for unquestioning fealty.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

So that was an attempt by at least one Democrat to try to take everything President Trump has done and try to put it in a larger context. And I think that what the Trump administration is counting on is to be able to isolate each of these criticisms into one and turn it in. Oh, so you want terrorists to be roaming free around the country type of type of, you know, have you stopped?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

So that was an attempt by at least one Democrat to try to take everything President Trump has done and try to put it in a larger context. And I think that what the Trump administration is counting on is to be able to isolate each of these criticisms into one and turn it in. Oh, so you want terrorists to be roaming free around the country type of type of, you know, have you stopped?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

So that was an attempt by at least one Democrat to try to take everything President Trump has done and try to put it in a larger context. And I think that what the Trump administration is counting on is to be able to isolate each of these criticisms into one and turn it in. Oh, so you want terrorists to be roaming free around the country type of type of, you know, have you stopped?

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

You know, in one of the metaphors we like to use in media, when did you stop beating your wife? Right. What's a what's an example of the worst kind of leading question? What I just said, when did you stop beating your wife? So when did you stop supporting terrorists is essentially.

The Chuck ToddCast
Trump’s Lawlessness + Showdown With SCOTUS Looming?

You know, in one of the metaphors we like to use in media, when did you stop beating your wife? Right. What's a what's an example of the worst kind of leading question? What I just said, when did you stop beating your wife? So when did you stop supporting terrorists is essentially.