Peter Welch: “President Trump is attacking the right to vote with respect…”

“And I ask my colleagues to join me in focusing our attention on the very real problems that confront our nation and are pushing back against the Trump administration's usurpation of the Senate's constitutional prerogatives. Mr. President, President Trump is attacking the right to vote with respect to dismantling of the Department of Justice organization of attorneys that are being punished for their efforts to protect that right to a vote. That organization within the Justice Department is being actively dismantled. And the President has currently used the Department of Justice as a tool to enact his, my view, very extreme policy positions.” (05:04–05:23)

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