Still I rise. It has been some 84 days since the Mueller report was made public, some 84 days now that the Chief Executive Officer of this country has been above the law, some 84 days that we are aware of since the Mueller report. But in truth and in fact, before the Mueller report was presented, we knew that the Chief Executive Officer was behaving in a fashion that would indicate that he thought he was above the law, 84 days above the law, 84 days disrespecting the law. He disrespects the Supreme Court of the United States of America. After it makes a ruling on the Census, he decides to just simply disregard that. ``Maybe I will use an executive order.'' The Supreme Court has already spoken. There was a time when the President of the United States of America would respect a decision of the Supreme Court. He disrespects Congress, encourages witnesses not to testify, and refuses to surrender proper documents after they have been properly subpoenaed. He has no respect for the Court and no respect for Congress. Eighty-four days above the law since the Mueller report was presented--as heartbreaking as that is, I would also add many days since these babies at the border were separated from their parents. What kind of country are we allowing ourselves to metamorphose into when we will allow this to go unchecked, when we will allow babies to be taken from their parents? What kind of a country are we metamorphosing into?…
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