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Barack Obama: “There are norms like that that have been erod[ed].”

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 36:36

And when a judge rules on something, we are going to abide by it even if we don't like it because we believe that. Their fealty is to that higher standard. And so There are norms like that that have been erod[ed]. Actively undermined in some cases that I believe are a problem. And those are not. Those norms, those rules and those values are not Republican or Democratic. They are American. (36:36–36:40)

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Asserts that certain democratic norms have been eroded.

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