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Graham: SCOTUS Justices Should Not Become ‘Legislators in a Robe’

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2 years ago

April 22, 2021

“The bottom line is there’s a movement to change America as we know it,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday morning (R-SC) while delivering his remarks in front of Supreme Court against court-packing.

Graham said that a group of “the most partisan people in this town,” is trying to “fundamentally changing the makeup of the court, which would set in motion the end of the rule of law as we know it.”

“The court would become a political football, ” continued Graham. “Destroying US independence and the American people would lose faith in the institution by increasing the number of United States senators, making D.C. a state is the biggest assault on the Senate in my lifetime and comes at the expense of Texas and South Carolina and every other state.”

“The Republican Party in the Senate is the last line of defense against this radical agenda, and I want to thank Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema for rejecting the idea of changing the filibuster. I’m asking no more of them than asking myself. So I appreciate what they’re doing for the Senate and for the country. But conservatives care about the court. Our goal is to make sure that people on the court do not become legislators in a robe. Their goal is to add to the court judges who will do our job. Creating laws, not interpreting laws, this is the biggest fight for the rule of law maybe since Marbury vs. Madison, well, that somebody who I respect immensely when it comes to legal ability who’s worked in this building, and I can tell you better than I can how single vote can change America in the Supreme Court.”

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Trump, Rep Biggs: invoking the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation will ‘be necessary’

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2 days ago

September 22, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

At a recent rally in Iowa, former President Donald Trump promised that if elected again in 2024, he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation of migrants who have illegally entered the United States. Since President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, over 6 million people have illegally entered the country.

Republican Representative Andy Biggs from border state Arizona, which is among the states suffering the greatest consequences from the Biden administration policies, lamented that Trump’s suggestion will be “necessary.”

Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Biggs stated “[I]t’s actually gonna have to be necessary.” Biggs then added his thoughts on how many more people will continue to cross the border under Biden: “Because by the time Trump gets back in office, you will have had over 10 million, in my opinion, over 10 million illegal aliens cross our border and come into the country, under the Biden regime.”

“And so when you start deporting people, and removing them from this country, what that does is that disincentivizes the tens of thousands of people who are coming,” Biggs went on. “And by the way, everyday down in Darién Gap, which is in Panama… over 5,000 people a day. [I] talk[ed] to one of my sources from the gap today. And I will just tell you, those people that you’ve seen come come in to Eagle Pass, over 7,000 in a three day period, most of those two weeks ago, were down crossing into the Darién Gap.”

“And those people… make their way up and they end up in the Eagle Pass [Texas], Del Rio area,” he continued. “So if you want to disincentivize them, you remove them from the country, which is why they remain in Mexico policy was so doggone effective at slowing down illegal border crossings.”