Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took a shot at Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday forward of President Donald Trump’s military parade.
Raskin appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” to weigh in on a solution Hegseth gave to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) at a listening to Thursday. The secretary of protection was requested if he would “respect any Supreme Court docket resolution” that prevented the Marines from being deployed at protests on U.S. soil.
“What I can say is we must always not have native judges figuring out overseas coverage or nationwide safety coverage for the nation,” Hegseth mentioned.
“The Weekend” host Elise Jordan requested Raskin whether or not Hegseth’s reply indicated that the U.S. is in a “constitutional disaster.”
“Nicely, we clearly have too many DUI hires within the Trump administration, beginning with Secretary Hegseth,” replied Raskin, nodding to reports of the defense secretary’s excessive drinking.
Raskin continued, “We have now a supreme Structure, we don’t have a supreme chief. We have now no dictators right here, we’ve no kings, we’ve no monarchs.”
The consultant went on to say the job of the president is to make sure the nation’s legal guidelines are “faithfully” executed.
“Let the message exit by way of the Trump administration, your job is to faithfully execute the legal guidelines which have been adopted by the individuals within the Home and the Senate and signed into regulation by the president,” Raskin continued.
The Maryland Democrat’s feedback got here forward of Trump’s navy parade and amid nationwide “No Kings” protests on Saturday. The president beforehand threatened that protestors on the parade could be met with “very heavy force.”
Raskin addressed that remark, together with different latest assaults on dissent from the Trump administration, together with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) being handcuffed at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.)
“Having the primary modification, the liberty of speech, the liberty of the press, the suitable to petition authorities for redress of grievances, the suitable of the individuals to freely assemble is the very reverse of getting a king, as a result of kings brook no dissent,” Raskin mentioned. “They don’t tolerate individuals’s free speech.”
