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Barack Obama: “Our democracy requires that no one is above the law.”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Former President Obama Praises Resistance to Trump

Published | Video Starts at 35:49

Part of our government, self government that should be unimpeachable. I think the Justice Department. Eric Holder was my Attorney General. I never spoke to him about any active case. Because. Our democracy requires that no one is above the law. and that as best as we can manage it, the power of the state is wielded. In an objective way that people can trust. So when a prosecutor says somebody does something. (35:49–35:56)

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Asserts that the principle of no one being above the law is essential to democracy.

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