Sen. Van Hollen Isn't Afraid To Fight Trump’s Shadow Gulags
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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| 0:21.6 | bulwark. I'm delighted to be here with Senator from Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, who is just off the |
| 0:26.6 | floor giving a speech about the Trump administration's attacks on the rule of law. How you doing, |
| 0:32.6 | Senator? Well, Tim, I'm good other than the fact that we're witnessing this serial lawbreaking in the first hundred days. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. Talk to us about what you laid out in the speech and what elements you think are the most alarming at this point. |
| 0:46.3 | Sure. Look, I did a short inventory of the lawbreaking going on, starting with violations of constitutional due process rights. That's obviously the case in Mr. |
| 0:58.0 | Brigo-Garcia's situation. But I pointed out that when Trump can tear up the Constitution |
| 1:03.8 | and ignore court orders in this case, he threatens the rights of everybody who lives in America. I talked about |
| 1:12.2 | the shredding of First Amendment rights, students on university and college campuses, and, you know, |
| 1:18.9 | pointed out that the citizenship test for the United States actually has a question about |
| 1:24.3 | the First Amendment. And clearly, the Trump folks need a big refresher course when it comes to the First Amendment |
| 1:31.9 | because while they lecture about the importance of freedom of speech around the world, |
| 1:35.8 | they're obviously taking it away from students here at home. |
| 1:39.4 | They seem to think it's like optional or cherry pick. |
| 1:42.3 | And then I also talked briefly about their violations of the |
| 1:46.0 | Impalment Control Act and Article 1. And then their abuse of emergency economic powers |
| 1:52.6 | to put on these across-the-board tariffs that are hammering our economy. So it was just 100 |
| 1:59.6 | days and a whole lot of lawbreaking going on. |
| 2:03.2 | Yeah. While you mentioned the tariffs, and then we'll get to Grega Garcia, |
| 2:06.1 | something I've just been really on a hot one over. Your colleagues in the Senate, |
| 2:13.7 | I was asking Senator Booker about this last week. If you took a secret ballot vote, |
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