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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Monday for calling the Supreme Courtroom “harmful.”

On Sunday, Pelosi appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and blasted former President Donald Trump for appointing such “anti-freedom justices to the [Supreme] Courtroom,” including that it is “a harmful court docket to households, to freedom in our nation.”

Cotton, who’s a Senate Judiciary Committee member, famous the irony of Pelosi’s statements in an look on Fox & Associates the morning after.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Fox & Associates, Monday, Might 16, 2022.

“I believe it’s humorous that Nancy Pelosi calls this an anti-freedom court docket. If the justices do rule alongside the traces of that opinion that was scandalously leaked a pair weeks in the past, it will merely be empowering the American individuals to make selections for themselves about how they’re going to manipulate themselves versus letting these selections be made by 9 unelected legal professionals in Washington,” Cotton stated, referencing the leaked Supreme Courtroom draft opinion, which indicated {that a} majority determination in Dobbs v. Girls’s Well being Group would probably overturn Roe v. Wade.

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The Republican senator famous that Pelosi’s feedback are consistent with Democratic rhetoric.

“It’s simply in line with the Democrats’ practices of making an attempt to destroy establishments if these establishments don’t produce the outcomes they need, even when in actuality, it’s merely giving selections again to the American individuals,” Cotton stated.

Cotton additionally addressed former Hillary Clinton presidential marketing campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann and the fees introduced towards him for mendacity to the FBI when he handed alongside since-debunked claims of collusion between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.

“One of many greatest scandals in American historical past,” Cotton stated of the alleged wrongdoing. The Sussmann trial started Monday.

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Moreover, the senator introduced the discharge of his e-book, Solely the Robust, this fall. Cotton stated the e-book analyzes “how Democrats have sabotaged American energy for the final 100 years and made America weaker on the earth.”