[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       PROTECTING CIVIL SERVANTS

  (Mr. KHANNA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, not since Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas 
corpus at the height of the Civil War has a President defied the United 
States Supreme Court. Yet, Vice President Vance has called for 
President Trump to fire every civil servant in the administrative 
State. When the courts stop you, Vice President Vance said, go like 
Andrew Jackson did and say the Court has made its ruling, now try to 
enforce it.
  Perhaps the Vice President doesn't know the history that Andrew 
Jackson's defiance of the Supreme Court led to the forcible removal of 
Native Americans and the Trail of Tears and shame for the country. It 
is black letter law.
  Vice President Vance should go back to Yale Law School where both of 
us studied. Article II has the President administering the law. Article 
III has the Courts saying what the law is. That has been the bipartisan 
consensus that even Richard Nixon understood. It is dangerous for him 
to call on the President to defy the Supreme Court.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair and refrain from engaging in personalities toward the Vice 
President.

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