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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I was representing the mayor and 10,000 people on the island…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 1:36:24

And I got a crooked judge who, you know, the federal Court of Appeals gave me the injunction, declared he had to give me the injunction, and he would not enjoy the enjoyment. And so the mayor. I was representing the mayor and 10,000 people on the island [of Vieques]. and the mayor asked me to do his civil disobedience. And I said, you know, attorneys are supposed to be officers of the court, so you really. (1:36:24–1:36:28)

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Asserts representation of the mayor and 10,000 residents of Vieques in a legal matter.

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