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Tom Tiffany: “James Madison said in the Constitution that the executive…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Interview with Representative Tom Tiffany on National Security, Immigration, and Legislative Efforts

Published | Video Starts at 03:44

And why do you think that? Yeah, I mean, if you go all the way back to the founding, I mean, James Madison said in the Constitution that the executive has sole authority to repel an invasion. And that was upheld in 1948 by the United States Supreme Court. I don't know what a lowly circuit court judge doesn't understand about something that is contained in the Constitution, upheld in a Supreme Court decision decades ago. (03:44–03:52)

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Asserts that the Constitution grants the executive sole authority to repel invasions.

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