Charles de Gaulle would be aghast at the deadlock which his constitution has failed to thwart. The former French president would be more appalled at the thought that his Fifth Republic might be superseded https://t.co/8u4o52G9P7 ...

Two weeks ago, on September 30th, Colonel Douglas Kugman resigned his post after serving 24 years in the Marine Corps under four different presidents. He said he could no longer take an oath to serve under a commander-in-chief who treats the Constitution like a suggestion, writing, quote, "The president acts as though one election makes 236 years of constitutional order irrelevant. Instead of trying to work within the Constitution or to amend it, President Trump is testing how far he can ignore it. If voter ...

In truth the Fifth Republic is pretty odd, a hybrid system based on a strangely ambiguous constitution. Might it be time for France to draft a new one? https://t.co/c063E6VVOO ...

The US military struck down a small boat off the coast of Venezuela yesterday that it accuses of trafficking narcotics. All six passengers on board were killed in the strike. This is the administration's fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean since September, killing more than two dozen people.Here is Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky denouncing the strikes last week. When they interdict boats, it's a common thing off the coast of Miami and California. About 25% of the time, the boat that they board do ...

the silence we hear from the from the governors who are currently sitting uh in the jobs having the responsibility their complicit silence to me is stark uh and it is dank and it is unfortunate. uh how do you how do you help uh frame this moment for the country uh to help them understand the value and the importance of what you're saying and why your voice is important now but more importantly why we need those Republican governors to stand up for their own independence. Well, I mean it's it's hard to under ...

If the justices continue to give a power-hungry executive most of what it wants, America’s constitution will look very different by the end of Donald Trump’s term https://t.co/9uIo6OmX4w ...

I I want to go to uh Illinois now where the governor is standing by with Jacob Sober off a governor who has been fighting against having federal troops come into his cities and and the environs and as a result has said heard said by the president of the United States that he should be jailed. Jacob, let me throw it over to you and the governor. >> Chris, thank you so much.Governor JB Pritzker, thanks for joining us live on MSNBC. >> How are you, Jake. Good to see you. >> It's good to see you as well.Um, you ...

And at a combative hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed repeatedly with Democrats. Facing a grilling on everything from weaponizing the Justice Department to the Jeffrey Epstein files, Bondi launched into personal attacks when accused of refusing to answer questions directly. Democratic Senator Adam Schiff summarized her deflections. I think it's it's valuable that the American people get a sense of of what you've refused to answer today. So, these are just some of the quest ...

Now we're joined by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield. Mr. . Attorney General, thanks for taking the time.So the White House, we know, is now asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency pause on this order by the district judge that's paused in effect all of the National Guard troop deployments, whether it's from the Oregon National Guard or California or Texas. The White House argues that the district court has impermissibly secondguessed the president's military judgments. Are you confid ...

The new Supreme Court term isn't about the marquee cases. It's about whether the justices will stand up to Donald Trump’s relentless assault on the Constitution, @NoahRFeldman says (via @opinion) https://t.co/0iSeZ4dE64 ...