Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his personal law firm, weaponizing it against his political opponents.

And the Republicans in Congress, they're just complicit.

Well, today's guest, Congressman Jamie Raskin, he's not playing ball.

He's the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and he's fighting to expose this unprecedented executive power grab.

In this conversation, we talk about his explosive

new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. DOJ's recent string of humiliating blunders, and what is

going on with the Epstein files? But before we get into it, subscribe to this channel to learn

how you can defend democracy. Congressman Jamie Raskin, welcome back to defending democracy.

I'm psyched to be with you, Mark.

I want to give you credit for really being the first person that I ever spoke to

about the separation of powers between the president and Congress and the judiciary.

To really flag something for me that I think is now one of the central themes and needs to be an even more important theme for the pro-democracy

movement. And that is the idea of congressional supremacy or primacy in the separation of powers.

I'll never forget you said to me, and I've repeated it, and I've given you credit each time,

that not only

are there not three co-equal branches of government, but to quote you, co-equals, not even a word.

It's like extremely unique or something like that.

Since that interview, which was, frankly, before Donald Trump retook office, so it was

well more than a year ago, we have seen what happens when you don't

have Congress jealously guarding its prerogatives, and you don't have Congress as the sort of

primary branch of government. We have him engaged in a war without any declaration from Congress.

He does not take care that the laws are

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