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Nicholas Begich: “We don't have a constitutional mechanism to [remove any…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 23:08

He can't be too bad of a guy. Alaskan ballistics, would he be willing to introduce legislation to remove any politician who introduces unconstitutional bills? Well, We don't have a constitutional mechanism to [remove any politician who introduces unconstitutional bills]. do that. The voters have mechanisms for impeachment and they have other elections that can be taken. But I'm not aware of a constitutional mechanism that would allow us to do that outside of a president. (23:08–23:12)

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Asserts that there is no constitutional mechanism to remove politicians for introducing unconstitutional bills.

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