‘This is not legal’: Dem scorches Ted Cruz after he explodes at judges blocking Trump
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) pushed back after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued judicial injunctions against President Donald Trump's executive orders meant that Democrats "hate Democracy."
Cruz made the claim during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
"Democrats today hate democracy!" Cruz exclaimed. "Now that their efforts to indict President Trump and stop the voters from reelecting him have failed, they're going and seeking out individual radical judges to try to shut down policies, and they are forum shopping like crazy."
"Give me any loon judge put on the bench by Obama or Biden who disagrees with a policy," he added. "There's a reason the Democrat Party is at 26% approval nationwide, because they put radical policies ahead of rule of law. Nationwide injunctions are an abuse of power!"
"Okay, that was a lot," Klobuchar responded. "Number one, we love the democracy, and I believe what we should be having is a civil debate about how we can best, if Donald Trump wants to make changes to the government, we should be doing it in a legal way, not how he's doing it."
The Democratic senator argued that courts blocked Trump "because he's violating the Constitution."
Cruz tried to interrupt, but Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) shut him down and encouraged Klobuchar to finish her remarks.
"Senator Moody, we have debates on this committee," Cruz snapped. "They occur regularly."
"I will take more than my time, since he's taken more than his time to yell at me," Klobuchar said.
"I'm not yelling," Cruz insisted.
"Senator Cruz, please," Moody implored.
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Klobuchar continued: "I am making the strong case that the reason all these cases have been filed and the reason that these judges who have been appointed by Ronald Reagan, yes, they still exist, and the Bushes and Donald Trump, judges appointed by Donald Trump, have been making these decisions is because this is not legal."
"Donald Trump himself has used his social media account, the White House account, to post an image of himself wearing a crown saying, long live the king," she said. "The issue is that we do not live in a kingdom, and Elon Musk is not his court jester. Ours is a nation of laws in which no one is above the law."
"That is why 39 different judges from vastly different backgrounds appointed by five different presidents have made clear that these are illegal actions."