During Friday's press briefing, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) discussed lawsuits filed against the Trump Administration.
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00:00Yes, please, Mr. Diffries, I have understood from your talks today that more than 70 decrees from the president right now is tried at court.
00:11How do you look at this way in order to make some of these decrees be turned back by the courts?
00:19Or do you think that's a good way to use the court system like that in a democracy?
00:23Yeah, in America, in an American democracy, we don't have a parliamentary system.
00:26We have a constitutional democracy with separate and co-equal branches of government.
00:32We're here today as leaders in the Congress who are part of a co-equal branch of government, the Article One legislative branch.
00:41Congress has authority in the area of tariffs. Congress has authority in the area of war and peace.
00:48Congress, of course, also has explicit authority in the area of taxation and revenues as it relates to spending.
01:00And so that's our system. And I think you'll see Congress continue to assert itself as a co-equal branch of government.
01:09It's important to do not based on partisan values, based on the integrity of Congress as an institution to be the voice of the American people and to work with our allies across the world, including Denmark.
01:24The courts also, Article Three, separate and co-equal branch of government, and the lawsuits speak for themselves.
01:33I think we're approaching at this point more than 200 lawsuits that have been filed challenging executive orders and administrative actions undertaken by the current administration.
01:45And in at least 85 different instances, courts have halted those executive orders and administrative actions, because at the end of the day, America is a nation that is based on the rule of law.