Rep. Garamendi: Trump Acting ‘Like a Dictator’ with Criticism of Chief Justice

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GARAMENDI: “Well, I think it’s extraordinarily important. Ultimately, all of these questions are going to wind up at the Supreme Court. And the Chief Justice is laying down, I think, a very, very important marker here. And he is defending the judiciary, the third branch of government. He says, basically, we are independent, we’ll take the facts as they come. We’ll measure them against both the law and the Constitution. And Mr. President, notwithstanding whatever you say, we are here. And ultimately, we will be the deciders of whether law is appropriate, whether an interpretation by the President or any other thing is appropriate. It’s very, very important. Equally important is the way in which the President is once again seeing himself as a dictator, as above the law. That it’s all about him. It’s all about his power, that he can dictate whatever he wants. He’s going to find out something quite different, both because the Democrats will have the Congress and we’ll do investigations, and the court just said, we’re independent, Mr. President.”