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On the recordJune 27, 2025
Mr. Speaker, there are masked agents in unmarked cars sent out, violating people's due process rights, as the courts have found. This includes all the way up to the Supreme Court. They are arresting Members of Congress. They are prosecuting Members of Congress for doing their jobs. They federalize the State National Guard when the police in Los Angeles and the elected officials are doing their jobs. This is an authoritarian attack on constitutional democracy. We must get back to the rule of law. If nothing else, the Republicans should put up the plaque they committed to put up, honoring the police officers who defended American democracy, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and everybody in this room during the January 6 violent insurrection which Donald Trump was impeached for having incited.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Addressing concerns about law enforcement actions and the January 6 insurrection during a closing statement.

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