Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley faced another room of heated constituents at a town hall in Northwood, Iowa, on Wednesday.

Grassley said the language he heard at Wednesday’s town hall was “stronger” than what he’s seen elsewhere.

“You’ll see that people have very strong feelings. You heard me also say in the beginning that a lot of us have been advised not to have these town meetings because it gives a forum for people to exert disagreement,” Grassley says. “Sometimes very strong disagreement with what’s going on in Washington.”

  • Stamau123@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “We have a due process and it was not followed and the Supreme Court ruled that he needed to come back, so Trump said, 'Nope I’m not going to do that,” so why do we even have a Supreme Court if they are not going to follow the ruling of the Supreme Court?" the unidentified constituent asks Grassley.

    Her question is met with applause by the audience.

    Grassley responded by pointing out other parts of the court’s rulings.

    “You’re looking at part of the Supreme Court decision, so let me give you the rest of the Supreme Court’s decision,” Grassley says. “The Supreme Court said, like you said, the president ought to make a good faith effort to get this person returned. But it also said to the district judge that you should be careful that you don’t interfere with the constitutional responsibilities of the federal government to conduct our foreign affairs. Which is totally within the executive branch of government.”

    The senator was also booed when he suggested that Abrego Garcia’s case “wouldn’t have been an issue if [former President Joe] Biden had enforced the law.”

    you fucking goober Grassley

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      The Supreme Court said, like you said, the president ought to make a good faith effort to get this person returned.

      Great. You showed that you can hear and repeat what she already said. Where’s the part where you explain why it’s okay for the President to ignore that order? Because of “foreign affairs”? If asking a foreign government to return someone they deported by mistake is a foreign affairs issue, then THEY SHOULDN’T BE FUCKING DEPORTING PEOPLE WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!