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Maryam Khanum

Marco Rubio Dismisses System of Checks and Balances: 'Judge Cannot Tell Me How to Conduct Foreign Policy'

Trump administration Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied the judiciary's authority over him during a heated exchange with a Democratic Senator while testifying in front of the legislature.

Senator Chris Van Hollen asked the Trump administration cabinet member about the administration's accidental deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully sent to a high security prison in El Salvador. Rubio responded by echoing the Trump administrations unsubstantiated claims that Garcia was a member of the gang MS13 and that he had allegedly been complicit in crimes committed by the gang.

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