Nadler: ‘We’re Now in a Constitutional Crisis’

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NADLER: “It is an attack on the essence of our democracy and we must oppose this with every fiber of our being. And that's why we today referred a contempt citation to the House floor. The House will have to vote that contempt citation to begin the court battle. There can be no higher stakes than this attempt to arrogate all power to the executive branch away from Congress, and more importantly, away from the American people. We've talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it. We are now in a constitutional crisis. Benjamin Franklin in 1787 was asked when he exited the constitutional convention, what type of government have you given us, sir? By a woman who asked him the question. He said a republic, ma'am, if you can keep it. Now is the time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government, as other republics have over the centuries.”