Jeff Merkley of Oregon gave address to make case that president is ‘violating the law’ through authoritarianism
Oregon’s Jeff Merkley gave a marathon, nearly 23-hour speech on the Senate floor that began on Tuesday and ended late Wednesday, pressing the case that Donald Trump is acting as an authoritarian by prosecuting political enemies and deploying the military into Merkley’s home town of Portland.
The 68-year-old senator began speaking around 6.20pm on Tuesday evening and continued until just after 5pm on Wednesday. Standing continuously on the Senate floor alongside placards that read “authoritarianism is here now!” and “Trump is violating the law”, Merkley paused only to take questions from fellow Democratic senators who joined him in the chamber to make their own points about the president’s conduct.
“I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells. We’re in the most perilous moment, the biggest threat to our republic since the civil war. President Trump is shredding our constitution,” Merkley said as he began his speech.
Someone on the Democratic side stands up and does something within their power to go against the Republican party, and you’re criticizing them for not doing it during session?
This is something. It’s not a game changer, but it’s better than nothing.
Why are you upset that this took place? It’s a positive thing. Are you upset that the no kings protest took place while there wasn’t something more significant happening at the same time as well?
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Never mind, no idea why I’m still seeing these
Because they’re either trained to shit on democrats at every single opportunity, or they’re training others.