Note: Religious pushback to the Trump administration’s immigration policies has been a big story throughout his second term, but Catholic pushback to Vance in particular — who has faced implicit criticism from *two* popes on the issue, which the nun referenced here — is a story unto itself.

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it is very funny to me that we libs have become the pocket constitution party now

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“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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There’s a lot in here, but among the more striking moments is the tail end of the clip, when El-Sayed asks the questioner to disavow “any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country.” The questioner responds: “I do not.”

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But the unwritten rules of US politics say that you must refer to such matters in the dry vernacular of federal lawmaking and policy, which contains no language for lawless corruption of this magnitude. So the reality of it is disguised from us; everything gets a rhetorical veneer of legitimacy.

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