'No One Is Above The Law': Van Ordern Calls For Inherent Contempt Of Congress Charge For AG Garland

6 months ago

At a House Republican press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) spoke about an inherent contempt of Congress push against AG Merrick Garland.

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00:00Morning, everybody. Thank you for coming this morning. The one word that will characterize

00:08the Biden administration is lawless. If you look at what Biden has done since he stepped

00:14into office, it can only be described as that. Joe Biden intentionally disobeyed the Supreme

00:21Court of the United States by giving over $100 billion worth of student loan relief,

00:25meaning that my plumbers, our pipe fitters, our welders, our carpenters, our LPNs, our

00:31LVNs, convenience store clerks have been forced to pay off the debt of people that have voluntarily

00:37taken on this burden. As my colleague from Texas noted, Joe Biden opened up the borders

00:44and illegal criminal illegal aliens are kidnapping, raping and murdering our children. This simply

00:51must stop. And the only way that this is going to stop is if Congress stands up and

00:57performs their Article One duties. So I am incredibly disappointed that half of this

01:02stage is not full of Democrats because this is not a partisan issue. This is an Article

01:07One authority that we have. The founding fathers wrote us first in the Constitution, and initially

01:13they were concerned that we would have too much power over the executive branch. And

01:17that has not become the case because many of our predecessors have abdicated their responsibility

01:22as members of Congress. And that stops today. So Merrick Garland needs to come. He needs

01:28to produce exactly what he's been told to produce by the Congress of the United States

01:32of America, because as Mr. Alford alluded to and said directly, no one is above the

01:37law.

'No One Is Above The Law': Van Ordern Calls For Inherent Contempt Of Congress Charge For AG Garland

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