Senator Chris Murphy
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581 appearances
24 recordings
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Mar
Senator Chris Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He takes a class called African-American history.
If you're running an African American history class, could you perhaps be in violation of this court order, of this executive order?
So there's a possibility, there's a possibility, you're saying, that public schools that run African American history classes, right, this is a class that has been taught in public schools for decades, could lose federal funding
if they continue to teach African-American history.
I think you're going to have a lot of educators and a lot of principals and administrators scrambling right now.
staring the death of democracy in the eyes right now.
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The the centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings, criminal court rulings, civil court rulings and constitutional court rulings.
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No one is above the law.
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And whether we like it or not, the courts interpret the law.
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So, yes, throughout the history of the United States, the courts have made rulings on when the executive branch is exercising
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legal power and when they are going beyond the power that they have, either constrained by statute or by the Constitution, just as they regularly rule on whether or not individuals have complied with the law or violated the law, whether those be civil laws or criminal laws.
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If the president of the United States says, you know what, I don't care what the courts say.
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I'm going to do whatever the hell I want.
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That's essentially the end of the rule of law, because if the president isn't bound by our laws and the Constitution, then why would anybody else be bound by our laws and the Constitution?
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This is a really dire moment.
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And no, so far they've been talking tough, but I think largely have complied with these court orders.
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I think there's going to be a question as to how well they've complied with the orders.
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But if they were to outright
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ignore an order, as J.D.
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Vance and Elon Musk are suggesting, that is maybe the greatest challenge to our democracy in any of our lifetimes.
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