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Scott Perry: “I voted to hold [Merrick Garland] in contempt because…”

Featuring: Scott Perry, Republican | U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 10

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Holding Garland in Contempt & Passing the NDAA, Rep. Perry's Leg Update, Week of June 10, 2024

Published | Video Starts at 00:31

And also it's Flag Day today, so let's celebrate the standard of freedom worldwide with that. This is, these are the kind of things that happened this week. We'll start out with the contempt of Merrick Garland. So I voted to hold [Merrick Garland] in contempt because Congress has a job to oversee the other branches. Now, in this case, we have a criminal trial. And they provided their version of the evidence. Well, that's not, that's not how, that's not how things work. (00:31–00:38)

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