Your client is the Constitution, it seems to me. Your client is the people of the United States.
Angus King: “Your client is the Constitution, it seems to me. Your client is the people of the United States.”
On the recordJanuary 16, 2018
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Senator King asserts that government officials serve the Constitution and the public, not individual leaders.
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