Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2020-2024: on Government Reform

Ted Cruz: Bring Supreme Court case against mail-in ballots

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Criticizes anti-cryptocurrency policies under Biden

"Cryptocurrencies, led by Bitcoin, along with other crypto technologies are a major innovation engine. It is a mistake for the U.S. government to hobble the industry and drive innovation elsewhere. Biden's proposed 30% tax on cryptocurrency mining is a bad idea."

Perry Johnson: Voter ID will be mandatory; won't suppress votes

Donald Trump: FactCheck: Presidential Records Act irrelevant to Boxes Hoax

Fact-Check by CBS News (June 13, 2023):The National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA released a statement detailing how presidential records are meant to be handled. "The PRA requires that all records created by Presidents (and Vice-Presidents) be turned over to [NARA] at the end of their administrations," the Archives said.

Prosecutors are not relying on the PRA to bring charges against Trump. He is instead charged with retaining national defense information under a different law known as the Espionage Act, a 1917 statute that has been used to prosecute other high-profile cases related to the retention or dissemination of classified information.

Joe Biden: No One is Above the Law Amendment: no presidential immunity

Mr. Biden's plan for Supreme Court reform [proposes] an amendment to the Constitution called the No One is Above the Law Amendment, which would state that the Constitution doesn't grant immunity from federal criminal indictment, trial, conviction or sentencing to a former president, according to the White House. "I share our Founders' belief that the president's power is limited, not absolute. We are a nation of laws--not of kings or dictators," Mr. Biden wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post about his plan.

Joe Biden: 18-year term limits for Supreme Court Justices

[One] proposed reform would do away with lifetime appointments for members of the Supreme Court and instead set 18-year term limits. Under Mr. Biden's plan, the president would appoint a new justice every two years, who would then serve for 18 years.

"Term limits would help ensure that the court's membership changes with some regularity," Mr. Biden wrote. "That would make timing for court nominations more predictable and less arbitrary. It would reduce the chance that any single presidency radically alters the makeup of the court for generations to come."

Joe Biden: Binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court implemented ethics rules in November, but it does not include an enforcement mechanism. Mr. Biden called its ethics code "weak and self-enforced."

Mr. Biden's proposed reforms come after the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, issued a series of landmark decisions in recent years. Those decisions, as well as scrutiny over ethics practices at the high court, have made it a target of Democrats, who have argued the Supreme Court has undermined public confidence in itself.

Two of Biden's three proposed changes--term limits and a binding code of conduct--would require action from Congress, making it unlikely they will become law before the president leaves office in January 2025.  

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Unity government: criticize on some issue; but work together

KENNEDY: President Trump had been reaching out to me. The broad issues that were most important to me--the ones that brought me into the campaign--ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children's health--those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on, and he invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don't agree. We need in this country to reach a point where we love our children more than we hate each other.

Q: Have you all negotiated over or talked about a cabinet position?

KENNEDY: No, there's no commitments. We just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.

Q: There were reports a couple weeks that there had been outreach to the Harris camp as well?

KENNEDY: I reached out to them on the same basis that I reached out to President Trump.

Donald Trump: Says "mail-in voting is corrupt"--but Trump votes by mail

"The ballots are a disaster," he said earlier this month to a British TV host, without offering evidence and despite having voted by mail himself in recent elections. "Any time the mail is involved, you're going to have cheating. It's too bad people don't say it. They don't want to say it."

That message is complicating plans by officials at Trump's campaign to orchestrate aggressive efforts in key battleground states to persuade voters to cast their ballots early and by mail. Party officials say the efforts are crucial to win the election.

Trump advisers say their get-out-the-vote effort will include persuading people to vote by mail if they believe it is the method the person is likely to use based on their voting history, including making sure ballots are mailed to people who request them.