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Neal Katyal: “This was an attempted coup and attempt to steal an election and weaponizing the Justice Department in the process that`s…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2021
This was an attempted coup and attempt to steal an election and weaponizing the Justice Department in the process that`s both illegal and pretty much the most unAmerican thing you can come up with in your wild imagination.
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Neal Katyal
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Katyal describes the actions taken to overturn the election as an attempted coup and highlights the illegality of weaponizing the Justice Department.

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