Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) responded Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on a federal judge by saying that no branch of the government should attack any other.
“It is really important for us to reaffirm the three branches of government that all take an oath to the Constitution, all try to uphold and defend individual rights and are supposed to check and balance one another,” Sasse told MSNBC’s Katy Tur. “So no branches of the government should be attacking other branches of the government. We should holding each other to more account and we have not been doing enough of that for a long time.”
In a series of tweets criticizing Judge James Robart after the judge blocked his immigration executive order, Trump wrote over the weekend: “If something happens blame him and court system.” Sasse criticized those remarks at the time.
Sasse said Tuesday it wasn’t up to either political party in particular to “check the inclination for people to consolidate power,” but rather to civil society and the separate branches of government.
“We need more skepticism, one branch of another, but we don’t need so much hope and trust in these two political parties because, frankly, neither of these two political parties is very impressive right now,” he said.
About time some actual “conservatives,” i.e., those who hope to conserve our form of government started piping up. Bannon wants nothing less than the total destruction of our global order and the rise of vicious selfish nationalisms the world over. We have to stop him.
Sasse said Tuesday it wasn’t up to either political party in particular to “check the inclination for people to consolidate power,” but rather to civil society and the separate branches of government.
This is coming close to ‘both siderism’.
What a typical GOP’er wishy-washy, pussy grabbing response.
Arrggghhhh!!!
Hahahahha. They know if the Donald the DB continues this shitstorm called a presidency their collective ass’s are grass in the midterms. Oh, and their going to have alot larger things to run away from from now till 18’.
Someone should inform Senator Sasse that it’s a bit late to complain about such things. Attacking other people is the only thing the Grabber in Chief knows how to do.