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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) connected Sunday blasted President Trump for saying helium doesn't cognize if helium has to uphold the Constitution amid his sweeping migration crackdown.
During a “Meet the Press” interrogation with NBC News’s Kristen Walker, the president said that helium was “relying” connected Attorney General Pam Bondi for however to respond to a Supreme Court ruling directing his administration to “facilitate” the instrumentality of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported Maryland man.
When asked by Welker astir if helium indispensable uphold the Constitution erstwhile it comes to deportations, Trump said, “I don’t know. I person to respond by saying, again, I person superb lawyers that enactment for me, and they are going to evidently travel what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They person a antithetic interpretation.”
In effect to a clip posted to the societal level X, Schumer said the president “has conscionable admitted that helium ‘doesn’t know’ whether helium needs to uphold the Constitution."
“This is arsenic un-American arsenic it gets,” he added.
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) said late past month that the U.S. is successful a law situation with the Trump medication “flouting the courts.”
“Do you deliberation that the Trump medication is ignoring the courts? Do you deliberation that the state is presently successful a law crisis?” Welker asked Van Hollen connected “Meet the Press” astatine the time.
“Oh, yes, we are. [They are] precise overmuch flouting the courts arsenic we speak. As the courts person said, facilitating his instrumentality means thing much than doing nothing. And they are doing nothing. Yes, they’re perfectly successful usurpation of the tribunal orders arsenic we speak,” Van Hollen responded, speaking astir Abrego Garcia.
The Hill has reached retired to the White House for comment.
