The Democrats are unloading some impressive cognitive dissonance in touting themselves as the defenders of the rule of law while Biden boasts of ignoring the courts (and Congress) in single-handedly forgiving $167 billion in student-loan debt. On CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, CNN analyst Scott Jennings went after young Rep. Louis Auchincloss (D‑Mass.) on which part of the judicial system we “have to respect” after the Trump trial.
Auchincloss claimed “What Joe Biden said was we have to respect the integrity of the judicial system. When you contrast that with what Speaker Mike Johnson said, which was I’m basically going to lean on my Supreme Court friends to overturn this — a gross abuse of the separation of powers — I think that law and order contrast is actually quite sharp for the American public.”
Biden knows something about “gross abuse of the separation of powers”! Jennings went to work:
AUCHINCLOSS: It’s 5 percent have to see this wedge now of one party upholds law and order, and one party is out there voting against border security legislation and trying to defund the FBI.
JENNINGS: I’m a little surprised to hear you invoke the respect …