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out when at the Supreme Court is what
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it's all about when Trump made all these
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changes to government the firings and
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The Cutting of and he's going to cut by
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the way the Department of Education but
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cutting these departments cutting these
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agencies and he's really gearing up with
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the Department of Education one when he
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did it the goal wasn't I'm going to do
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this and nobody's going to challenge me
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the assumed idea was every single thing
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I do the Democrats are taking me to
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court they they said they were going to
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cuz they have no other power anymore and
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the assumption is they're going to get
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judges that are sympathetic to their
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cause so what's the goal the goal is get
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them to the Supreme Court I told you
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guys this from January 20th that that
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was the goal and of course I'm correct
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because anybody that does this for a
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living would know that and so Trump's
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getting exactly what he wants and now a
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CNN legal expert says yeah he Trump did
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get stopped here on this one thing by
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this judge and the judge was probably
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right but the judge was also overly
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political in the decision and Trump's
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going to win at the Supreme Court most
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likely I want you to take a look at this
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and let me know what you think in the
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comments a federal judge has just ruled
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tonight that President Trump's firing of
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the National Labor Relations Board chair
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was illegal and a scathing decision that
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came out we heard from the US District
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Court Judge barl Howell who wrote quote
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an American president is not a king not
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even an elected one and his power to
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remove Federal officers and honest civil
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servants like plaintiff is not absolute
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but may be constrained in appropriate
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circumstances as present here it's the
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third time and less than a week that
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we've seen a federal judge rule that
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President Trump's firing of independent
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agency heads is unlawful my top legal
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Source tonight is CNN's senior legal
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analyst Ellie honig and Ellie what did
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you make of the ruling were you
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surprised by
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this not surprised at all Caitlyn
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because most fundamentally Donald Trump
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broke the law and he doesn't even
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contend otherwise now Congress passed a
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law saying that this particular nlrb
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official can only be removed if there's
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notice any hearing and good cause Trump
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didn't care he just said you're fired
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without regard to any of those things
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but the key thing to keep in mind here
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is Donald Trump is not playing for the
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district court the trial court where
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where we were today he's playing for the
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Supreme Court and he knows that this
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case or one of the other firing cases is
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going to make its way up to the Supreme
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Court where he will argue that it's
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unconstitutional for Congress to pass
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those kind of laws because he's in
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charge of the executive branch and he
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will argue he can do what he wants
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within the executive branch would not
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surprise me to see the Supreme Court
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take one of those cases would not
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surprise me to see Trump win in the
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Supreme Court yeah we don't know I mean
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obviously everyone's been watching
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett especially
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when it comes to how she sided with the
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other justices on the usaid funding um
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but on this tonight you know what judge
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Howell did WR is is at one point she
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said the president who touts an image of
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himself as a king or as a dictator
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perhaps as his vision of effective
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leadership fundamentally misapprehends
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the role as she accuses him of exactly
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what you're laying out there a court to
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to test the presidency in the limits of
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it I think that is an overstatement by
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the judge and frankly a misstatement of
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Donald Trump's actual legal argument in
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this case I think the Judge is actually
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getting quite political there in a way
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that undermines her credibility Donald
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Trump is making a perfectly reasonable
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good faith argument that as the elected
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head of the executive branch he controls
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the executive branch that is very much
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in dispute that's a reasonable argument
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to make that's not the same thing as
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saying he's a king or in another part of
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the decision the judge even refers to
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his comments that he's a dictator that's
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outside stuff that's political I think
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it was inappropriate and and not even
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correct for the judge to characterize it
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that way yeah and just to be clear the
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context here you know we've seen the
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judges siding against Trump in three
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rulings we've also seen with Hampton
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Dinger who has been fighting his way
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through the the court system when it
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comes to to Federal Watchdogs that are
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being fired he dropped his case today
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after losing that we'll see where these
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limits go Ellie honig as always great to
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have you thank you and thanks to
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everyone joining us tonight CNN news
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night with Abby Phillip is up next
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