‘Latest Attempt To Tear Down Our Democracy’: Madeleine Dean Disparages GOP’s Garland Contempt Push

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During debate on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) decried House Republicans' efforts to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the gentleman from New York.

00:04Mr. Speaker, this contempt resolution is the latest attempt to tear down our democracy.

00:10The Department of Justice has cooperated with congressional Republicans at every turn,

00:16but after 92,000 pages of documents, more than a dozen transcribed interviews, and a

00:22250-page transcript that was verified, my colleagues still aren't satisfied.

00:29They are doing this in service of one man, the disgraced former president, in a misguided

00:34attempt to distract from his crimes.

00:37On May 30th, a jury of stranger citizens found Mr. Trump guilty of 34 felony charges.

00:44It is beyond disheartening that a former president, and now potential presidential candidate again,

00:51was convicted of coordinating a, quote, unlawful conspiracy to win in the 2016 election, and

00:59falsifying records to cover his tryst with an adult porn star.

01:04I'm grateful that the rule of law prevailed, yet I am deeply concerned that our democratic

01:09institutions are under threat.

01:11Some of these attacks coming from within.

01:14Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said a kangaroo court convicted President Trump.

01:20Senator Johnson called the trial a political, purely political exercise.

01:26Mr. Trump apparently pities himself as a so-called political prisoner.

01:31All this to tear down our American's faith in the rule of law.

01:35Contrary to his complaints, Mr. Trump was tried and treated fairly.

01:40Justice was served in a courtroom that was open and filled with reporters, and a jury

01:44that was chosen by the prosecution and the defense.

01:49This is the rule of law at work.

01:52Political rhetoric and deliberate misinformation, the likes of these and dangerous many others,

01:57erode faith in our institutions and threaten the safety of the American people.

02:02These attacks undermine the rule of law, which stands to protect the rights of all people.

02:07When Attorney General Merrick Garland was before the Judiciary Committee —

02:10Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds.

02:14Thank you.

02:16When Attorney General was before the Judiciary Committee, he described his career upholding

02:20the rule of law.

02:21In his own words, that meant ensuring that, quote, we treat like cases alike, that we

02:27do not have enemies or friends, that we do not pay attention to the political parties

02:33or the wealth or the power or the influence of the people we are investigating, that we

02:39follow the facts and the law.

02:41This is what distinguishes America from our adversaries.

02:44I yield back.

‘Latest Attempt To Tear Down Our Democracy’: Madeleine Dean Disparages GOP’s Garland Contempt Push

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