James Landale
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jun
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also agreed unanimously that they should take military action as a result of that, standing shoulder to shoulder.
So yes, he wouldn't make it
In situ, but definitely the point was made politically in Congress.
The US Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789.
not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.
What's your take on what was going on there?
Well, on one level, he was referring back to, you know, core documents that are the foundation of our rule of law that apply equally to the United Kingdom as they do to the United States in terms of, you know...
And huge, you know, he cited the number of references to Magna Carta and Supreme Court judgments and things like that.
So he was talking about the joint heritage of both countries.
And the sort of not so subtle point was, you know, we've been around together for a long time.
We have a lot of shared culture.
And yes, we might have disagreed a lot over the years.
But ultimately, the reason that the relationship is so important is because it endures despite those differences.
But then suddenly, as you say, he mentioned the importance of constitutional checks and balances of executive power.
And instantly, all the Democrats presumed that that was a reference to Donald Trump, because obviously, under the Trump presidency, there has been this...
this idea, even an ideology, of the accretion of presidential power.
In other words, that actually the system of checks and balances that we naturally presume exists in the United States and has done for many, many years, there are many in the MAGA world who challenge that thesis and think actually the law has been misinterpreted and the executive, the president, has far more power than the system lets on.
MAGA Carter, you could call it.
Exactly.
Exactly.
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