Padilla's dramatic embellishment of what happened after he interrupted a Kristi Noem press conference rivals one of film's most iconic villain reveals.

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Next, we have “Somehow Palpatine Returned”—widely regarded ... Creation Act suddenly about-face and move to give the Supreme Chancellor emergency powers so that he could unilaterally ...

Vader and Palpatine may grab the headlines with ... was simply business as usual — what is the difference between a Supreme Chancellor who's clung onto power too long and a bona fide dictator?

The respective rises of both Bridges and the clones were brought about through a harrowing price: the Galactic Senate offered emergency powers to then-Chancellor Palpatine (ones that paved the way ...

These scenes, all of which are available on various digital platforms and DVD copies of the film, focus on the growing dissent in the Republic Senate as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine ...

Living a double life, he was also Palpatine, a Naboo Senator and phantom menace." "He manipulated the political system of the Galactic Republic until he was named Supreme Chancellor — and ...

The brains behind his downfall, of course, is the prequel trilogy's MVP, Ian McDiarmid’s Supreme Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine. At breakneck speed, he persuades his young protégé to ...