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Peter Welch: “The Solicitor General basically say[s] that the president…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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President Trump is breaking the law, and the Supreme Court is letting him do it

Published | Video Starts at 01:54

… have now is a president who's violating the power of the purse and impounding money, something that Nixon was not allowed to do by the Supreme Court. Second, you're having The Solicitor General basically say[s] that the president has an option as to whether he will follow a Supreme Court order. That is an extraordinary constitutional crisis. So right now, we have the president disregarding Democrats. He's not at all engaged with us. (01:54–02:03)

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Asserts that the Solicitor General suggests the president can choose whether to follow a Supreme Court order.

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