WASHINGTON-- Patrick Leahy was swept into the Senate almost a half-century earlier in the wake of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon's resignation and pardon. After a historical profession, the Vermont Democrat-- the last of the so-called "Watergate Babies" of that 1974 class-- leaves Congress with his mind set on another constitutional crisis: President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. " Here's a male who does not think in the Constitution, has most likely never ever check out the Constitution. I'm discussing Trump, who revealed simply a week approximately earlier, 'Well, we must reserve parts of the Constitution,'" stated Leahy, who increased from state district attorney in Chittenden County to Senate president professional tempore, 3rd in line in governmental succession. " It's something that ends up being practically a cliche in a few of...
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