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Amy Klobuchar: “We are not in a constitutional crisis because of the courts…”

Featuring: Amy Klobuchar, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Minnesota

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Senator Amy Klobuchar Discusses Trade Talks, Constitutional Concerns, and 2024 Election on MEET THE PRESS

Published | Video Starts at 05:14

But the reason we're not in a constitutional crisis, like we have been at any moment other moments in our country, like say, the Civil War, when the states were actually dividing and Seceding We are not in a constitutional crisis because of the courts of this country. Over 100 of them, including multiple Trump appointed judges have stood up and said, hey, this is unconstitutional. You can't steal people's rights. Private data in Social Security. Elon Musk, you cannot freeze funds for medical research that a Democratic and Republican Congress have already allocated for life saving cancer trials. (05:14–05:28)

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Asserts that over 100 courts, including Trump-appointed judges, have ruled actions unconstitutional, preventing a constitutional crisis.

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