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Stacey Abrams: “We have had a court in California say, no, you cannot use…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Stacey Abrams: "We Are in the Midst of an Authoritarian Regime" | Amanpour and Company

Published | Video Starts at 04:57

They do not have to reveal themselves. They have blatantly opposed actually complying with existing law. And now we have the President of the United States summoning up National Guardsmen. We have had a court in California say, no, you cannot use the threat of emergency or the declaration of a false emergency to justify this occupation. And we are seeing it happen in Washington D.C. the way private violence takes hold in a tyrannical, authoritarian, autocratic ad in certain language here, the way it takes hold … (04:57–05:08)

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Asserts that a California court ruled against using false emergencies to justify military occupation.

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