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Graham Platner: “If we, the Senate, if it chose to, can exercise ethics…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner Speaks to PACKED Augusta Crowd

Published | Video Starts at 44:58

If we say that you can't have money in politics and the Supreme Court comes along and just tells us that it's unconstitutional again, what do we got? We need to understand that we need to impose. And I'll be honest, If we, the Senate, if it chose to, can exercise ethics oversight of the Supreme Court. if we chose to, we could hold Supreme Court justices to the same ethics standards that we hold all other federal judges. (44:58–45:10)

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Asserts that the Senate has the power to exercise ethics oversight over the Supreme Court.

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