May 19, 2016 --

John Dickerson, moderator of Face the Nation, signaled continued media deference towards Hillary Clinton when, on the program, May 8, rather than asking “hard questions” of Hillary Clinton, he asked her for “three hard questions” she thought should be addressed to Donald J. Trump.

LPR Prediction: If Hillary Clinton is president, the media will fawn over her. If Donald J. Trump is president, the media will hound him.

Here are five questions LPR would ask Ms. Clinton (not one referring to any email files).
1) What was our leased Benghazi facility, attacked September 11, 2012 being used for. And why was our ambassador in Benghazi at the time?

2) You agreed with Sen. Sanders, during your April 14 debate, that your Supreme Court appointee will vote to overturn Citizens United? How will you know the way your appointee will rule on Supreme Court cases?

3) Justice Black, in the 1952 Steel Seizure Case, wrote: “The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times.” Is that view obsolete, today?

4) Justice Brennan, in New York Times v. Sullivan, wrote that we have “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-ope, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” Should this view be revisited as an incitement to anti-government hate speech?

5) The First Amendment recognizes “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Do you view such petitions as anti-Government?