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On the recordDecember 8, 2021
What is it worth if people like Mark Meadows and others can just blow off subpoenas, that’s the trickle down effect, the collateral effect is that if people start to believe that law and order doesn’t matter anymore, then as a democracy, and a country, we’re lost.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California
Source
msnbc.com

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Swalwell warns about the consequences of ignoring legal subpoenas on the integrity of democracy.

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