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Newt Gingrich: “You have a group of people... ideologically deeply convinced…”

Featuring: Newt Gingrich, Conservative | Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives | National

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Discussion on Judicial Power and Historical Precedents with Speaker Gingrich and Ms. Shaw

Published | Video Starts at 06:21

And obviously these kind of periods are very painful and they're very dangerous, and you've got to work your way through them. And I think this is one of the examples. You have a group of people... ideologically deeply convinced that they have the power to overrule the president, United States. And now the country has to make a decision. Do we in fact have alternative presidents in the form of district judges or not? And the country, I think, will overwhelmingly decide that that's impossible. (06:21–06:31)

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Asserts that some judges believe they have the authority to overrule the President of the United States.

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