Rep. Jamis Raskin (D-MD) got off a shot at Pete Hegseth's well-documented drinking problems when asked about the defense secretary's alarming answers at a House hearing on Thursday.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Raskin was shown a clip of the embattled Hegseth being asked by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) if he would "respect any Supreme Court decision" that stopped the deployment of Marines on the streets of the U.S.
The former Fox News personality ducked the question and instead claimed, "What I'm saying is local district judges shouldn't make foreign policy."
After watching the clip, Raskin was asked, "So, congressman, when you have the secretary of defense saying that, yes, Marines might defy court orders are we at a constitutional crisis?"
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"Well, we clearly have too many DUI hires in the [Donald] Trump administration starting with Secretary Hegseth," the Maryland Democrat immediately replied, which got a smile and an "Oooo," out of co-host Elise Jordan
"But look, the Constitution says that the Constitution and federal law are supreme," he continued. "We have a supreme Constitution, we don't have a supreme leader. We have no dictators here, we have no kings, we have no monarchs."
"This is civilian government. and there's a reason that Congress is in Article 1, and all legislative power is vested in the Congress, just like all judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and in the inferior courts," he added. "So what's the job of the president? To take care that the laws are faithfully executed. So let the message go out through the Trump administration, your job is to faithfully execute the laws that have been adopted by the people in the House and the Senate and signed into law by the president."
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