JB Pritzker
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632 appearances
13 recordings
6 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 2 Jul
JB Pritzker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's the situation.
That's what we are seeing and facing right now.
And that's why if you really want to understand what is happening on the ground, talk to the people who are closest to the ground.
That's why these decisions should never be made to governors.
They should be made with governors.
And we are not seeing that right now in this situation.
Well, this is the challenge of this situation, because, you know, technically the president does have the authority to operationalize the the the Insurrection Act in the case where something like that becomes essentially your last tool.
Right.
The challenge is, is that this is not about the authority of the president.
This is about does it have both the moral clarity and the operational necessity for it to be real?
And those are fundamentally different questions.
And for each and every one of us, we did.
We had to take an oath that we would follow the orders of the command, the lawful orders of the commander in chief.
Second, about whether or not the order that I'm getting, is it lawful or not, highlights and underscores the fundamental problem with the operations that are taking place right now and the fundamental challenge that we are now asking our service members to put themselves into.
Absolutely.
This is a priority for me because I believe that fighting for democracy is a priority.
Fighting for democracy is never a nice to do.
It is something that is absolutely imperative to understand our national future and our national foundation.
And I put together this redistricting advisory commission, which, by the way, is a bipartisan commission, which has been listening to Marylanders for months and actually making sure that our maps are reflective of their will and not reflective of the will of Donald Trump.
that when Donald Trump is picking and choosing which states go through this process, we in the state of Maryland said, well, if Texas and if North Carolina and if Florida and if Ohio, if they are going to do this, then you know what?
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