President Joe Biden and Justice Stephen Breyer announced on Thursday January 27th, 2022 that Justice Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court later this year when the Court goes on recess or when their current court session ends around June. This recent political news story made headlines because this will give President Biden his first chance to nominate a person of his choice to the Supreme Court of The United States. His nominee just like any other President's Supreme Court nominee will stay...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will run for re-election in the House of Representatives during this year's Midterm Elections. Pelosi, as you might remember was first elected to Congress way back in 1987 through a special Congressional election for a House of Representatives seat that was open then. The question after hearing her announce this political news is will she vie for a leadership position if the Republicans win back the Majority of the House chamber during this year's elections?...
Jan 26, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Senators in the upper chamber of Congress are allowed to write and change the rules of their chamber depending on which party is in control of the Senate Chamber during the current session of Congress. The Senate's Nuclear option is a metaphor for changing the vote-threshold of legislation and nominees from 60 votes to 51. When the Senate is not using the Nuclear Option, it takes 60 votes to end debate on a law or bill and then the Senators can vote on a bill and either pass the legislation or n...
Jan 16, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 39
On the one year anniversary of the January 6th, 2021 insurrection or riot, Vice President Kamala Harris made a remark comparing Jan. 6th, 2021 to Pearl Harbor and September 11th, 2001. However, you cannot compare the three events together because more people died from/on Pearl Harbor and 9/11 than January 6th, '21. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 both led U.S. into wars we could have not seen coming. Wars that cost hundreds and millions of soldiers and human lives beyond what anyone thought was likely to ...
Jan 11, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 38
What will everyone remember about what happened during the year 2021? From Politics to culture, it was a crazy year. The January 6th Insurrection fired up a lot of division within our politicians and clearly weakened our government for a period of time. President Biden and Vice President Harris were sworn in to Office on January 20th, 2021. During their first 11 months in office, Biden and Harris have had to deal with many chaotic crises such as inflation, COVID-19, Immigration, Afghanistan with...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Going into this next year, Democrats need a plan and many strategies relating to how they plan on keeping their majorities in both chambers of Congress for the 22' elections. If they can make a plan, they will also need lots and lots of messengers to communicate it and spread awareness of how they will work for you in Congress leading up to them actually working on their legislative & political strategies for the 22' midterm elections. Communication and strategies can be key to winning an el...
Dec 27, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 36
If you were a member of the United States Senate, would you understand what is in the Build Back Better Act President Biden and Democrats in Congress are trying to pass? In this episode, this piece of legislation is taken apart into sections by analyzing, reading, and comprehending the text of the bill. This is an important bill for President Biden to get through both chambers of Congress. BBB as it is most commonly referred to as, does many things such as funding free community college for adul...
Dec 21, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 35
In this episode of American Political Paradise, you will be informed of why Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said recently he will vote no on Biden's Build Back Better Act. I bet you do not remember when one of then Presidential candidate Joe Biden used a bunch of slogans to motivate people to vote for him and Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden's most used slogan from his campaign and even during his presidency has been Build Back Better. The importance of Joe Manchin's no on Biden's key pi...
Dec 20, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 34
If the House Republicans were to win back the House of Representatives during the 2022' Midterm Elections, could Former President Trump become the next Speaker of the House? You would think the answer is no. However, as it turns out House of Representatives members can vote for someone who is not a member of the lower chamber. For example, theoretically Trump could get enough votes for the nomination to be Speaker only if enough Republicans defect away from voting for Kevin McCarthy. Though this...
Dec 15, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
House chamber Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she plans on staying on as speaker of the House through the Midterm elections. Though she will turn 82 years old next year. Some would suggest she needs to retire from Congress at that age. But that's very debate able especially since she still acts like she is still functioning at this age she is right now. Through her career in Congress, she has led Democratic members during a minority and majority rule of the lower chamber of Congress many...
Dec 13, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In today's episode of American Political Paradise, I explain the sole purpose behind the Senate's position of having an Senate Parliamentarian as a official in the United States Senate. The Senate Parliamentarian is in the Senate for the role of providing assisted guidance to Senators on if they can or cannot include ideas in a piece of legislation depending on if the concepts follow Senate's budget rules. The current Senate Parliamentarian is Elizabeth MacDonough, who has held the position sinc...
Dec 11, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 31
The House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022' earlier this year in September, therefore this legislation has been on the calendar for the Senate since the 18th of October 2021. From that time period until now, Senate has been editing and working on passing the NDAA, or the National Defense Authorization Act and sending it to President Biden's desk before the end of the year. At least that is the goal of this current Congress. In this episode I r...
Dec 08, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 30
As the title of this episode states, Dr.Oz is now a United States Senate candidate in the state of Pennsylvania in the political race to replace retiring Senator Pat Toomey, a Republican Senator of Pennslyvania who is leaving Senate after his term ends in 2022. Dr.Oz has a lot of human and natural upfront controversy as would any well known celebrity doctor such as himself would permit in this functioning political society we currently live in. All of his many controversies have allowed for him ...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Sean Parnell has suspended or ended his US Senate Pennsylvania race after losing custody of his children and divorcing from his wife. Which now begs the question of who will enter the highly contested Republican race for the Republican nomination for the 2022 US Senate Election in Pennsylvania. Sean Parnell's exit begs this question because the Republicans in the US Senate need a Republican from Pennsylvania to win the highly contested seat of Senator of Pennsylvania Pat Toomey who is leaving th...
Nov 30, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 28
The Population and Housing Census within the United States is selectively happening every ten years. Census comes into handy when you explain what Gerrymandering is and how it is used and manipulated across the United States political spectrum and across various states. To simply state Gerrymandering is when state legislatures redraw their congressional and state district maps according to their state results from a census that took place in their state. Gerrymandering can be difficult to unders...
Nov 23, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 27
On November 17th, 2021 the House of Representatives passed a House Resolution Censuring Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican of Arizona through a chamber vote of 223 vs. 207 with one member voting present. The House censured him because he recently tweeted a anime video of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swiping a sword toward President Biden. This censure from the House of Representatives is the first time in more than ten years the House chamber passed a resolution censuring a member of...
Nov 23, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont has announced he will not be running for a ninth term in the United States Senate next year. So what does that mean exactly? This means his open Senate seat for Vermont opens up the way for a new Democrat or Republican to represent the state of Vermont in the U.S. Senate for a six year term. Also Senator Leahy is the current President Pro Tempore of the Senate. To which he leads the Senate whenever the Vice President is not present in the chamber an...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Both chambers of Congress in the United States passed a piece of legislation that is called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Now it is in its final stage of being a bill, which is awaiting the commander in chief's signature or veto on the/a bill. There's a one hundred percent chance President Biden is going to sign this legislation because he believes legislation is necessary and he campaigned on this issue when running to be the next President of the United States. In this episode, I...
Nov 10, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 24
November 2nd, 2021 had a lot of history unfold all over the United States of America chapter of political history. Virginia elected its first Republican Governor in twelve years; virginians elected Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin to become their next Governor Virginia. However, voters in Virginia also elected a Republican candidate to be their Lieutenant governor as well as the next attorney general of Virginia. Big cities and towns across America elected or in some cases re-elected their slat...
Nov 08, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Election day for 2021 is tomorrow!!!. Whether you vote or not local races for positions such as city council seats, mayors position of big cities or small towns and governor's races in a few states will be taking placing. In today's episode I will be highlighting the 5 major mayoral races to watch out for when watching tomorrow's elections in the United States take place from town to city. However I also place emphasis and importance on how crucial and special the Virginia Gubernatorial election...
Nov 02, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Many people probably have never heard of a President of the United States being able to use what is called "Executive Privilege". But Executive Privilege is actually a power of a President and Former Presidents can have and use to their discrete. Executive Privilege can be defined as asserting you are withholding particular information or secrets from investigators and any chamber of the U.S. Congress and the Judicial courts as well. Legally, there are many aspects to how a President can use his...
Oct 26, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Did you realize every President since Warren G. Harding has had the ability to choose a person to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget? The Office of Management and Budget or (OMB) as it is commonly referred to, is an essential part of our American Government we supervise or watch over every day of our lives. This central part of a President's administration or government is responsible for overseeing the placement of a President's agenda stretching all over the Executive Branc...
Oct 25, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This episode is solely for the purpose of explaining how the United States votes and elects its President and also Vice President to their elected offices or positions. The Electoral College in the U.S. has been around and in place since the founding of America. Every four years, we vote for a new President to be elected or renew the current President by reelecting them. Essentially, the Electoral College is an important and necessary concept and election system America has in place, because it ...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
North Carolina's David Price and Pennsylvania's Mike Doyle have announced they are not going to run for another two year term to represent their congressional districts in the House of Representatives in Congress. This means more and more Democrats are realizing Republicans have a great chance of taking back the House chamber of Congress in the 22' midterm elections in the United States. However, Representative Mike Doyle is saying he is retiring from Congress due to a pending redistricting proc...
Oct 19, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Democrats in U.S. Congress are trying to fund the government pass December along with three other legislative priorities. They would like to raise the debt ceiling as much as they can agree with Republicans in the U.S. Senate to do just that. However, Dems have the tough road ahead relating to getting the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in the House of Representatives, even after the U.S. Senate has already signed onto the infrastructure bill. Then there's the social radical spending recon...
Oct 13, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
A(n) US Capitol Police Whistleblower has come forward with claims relating to the leaders of US Capitol Police department mishandling of Intelligence they might have received before the Insurrection of Capitol building. If these claims are true, the claims need to be handled with the cautious and careful consideration of how they should move forward and take the US Capitol Police department into a better direction of management. The american people rely on this police department to protect all m...
Oct 12, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Nancy Pelosi has represented her congressional district of San Francisco which is California's 12th congressional district for House of Representatives in Congress. Pelosi has been the most powerful woman in politics in the nation for a very, very long time. She is the current Speaker of the United States of Representatives, though she has had multiple stints as Speaker of the House throughout the recent 2000's and 2010's years. You should not underestimate her regarding her will to keep power a...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Arizona State Republican legislature wanted to conduct an election audit of their 2020 Presidential election state results. They did and the results of their audit confirm President Joe Biden affirmatively won the state of Arizona and beat former President Donald Trump in the election in regards to Arizona. Lawmakers in this state hired a company called Cyber Ninjas, which has no experience auditing election results. Cyber Ninjas' CEO is a anti-vaxer as well a conspiracy theorist. Find out more ...
Sep 28, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 14
As you might know, Mike Pence was our former Vice President of the United States when former President Donald Trump was in office from 2017 to January 20th, 2021. Right now Pence is pondering about his political ambitions for political offices or aspirations. That is why he is waiting to watch how these next two and a half years of the Biden administration unfold, so he can decide what he should do next in the big political stage or arena. Pence if he chooses to run for the Republican Presidenti...
Sep 20, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Have you ever noticed when President Biden is speaking he cannot say a full sentence clearly? I have and it's very clear to me the White House is trying to prevent him from taking questions from reporters at events and press conferences. Also, the White House has stopped the live stream feed of him speaking at an public event at most five times. They will do anything to hide him from the public since they do know he is not mentally stable. The latest political headlines from around the world are...
Sep 14, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 11
