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David French

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1977 total appearances

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

he picks on targets that it is hard to mobilize people to defend.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

So undocumented immigrants, prime example.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

Here's another one.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

How many people are gonna go in the streets to chant, hands off Harvard, hands off Skadden Arps, right?

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

Nobody, nobody is going to do that because he's picking on in these major educational and legal institutions,

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

some institutions that are actually quite not popular, especially with his base.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

And so he's very good at picking targets.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

And that's one of the things that makes opposition so difficult, because then you're immediately, if you say, hey, you know, suspected members of Trindoagua, TDA, they deserve due process.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

How dare you deport people without due process?

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

And then the immediate response is, oh, look at you, you're the best friend of narco terrorists.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

I thought, now I'm not predicting this, but I will say I would not be remotely surprised if this decision is at 9-0.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

9-0 in the sense that, no, Trump doesn't have the ability to fire her at will.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

But it was very clear to me that the Supreme Court, an overwhelming majority of the Supreme Court, had two propositions in their mind.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

One was,

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

The Fed is different.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

The Fed isn't like the CFPB.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

The Fed isn't like the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Federal Trade Commission or the others.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

It's just different.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

And that, number two, because it's different, the president doesn't get to just make it up as he goes along, including by substituting truth social posts for proper notice and opportunity to be heard when you're going to fire somebody who can only be fired for cause.

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ICE Is Splitting America in Two

And so I think that that wasโ€”