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Jamie Raskin: “Compelling civil servants to answer to an unanswerable fourth branch of government, as Rep. Jamie Raskin puts it, seems…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2025
Compelling civil servants to answer to an unanswerable fourth branch of government, as Rep. Jamie Raskin puts it, seems not only unprecedented but uniquely un-American.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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slate.com

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Raskin criticizes Musk's demands on federal workers as un-American.

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