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Being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that's problem one. problem to two is the law itself tries to reduce the states and localities into administrative cogs in the machinery of the federal government and the supreme court said in the 1997 case dealing with the brady handgun violence prevention act that you can't -- the federal government cannot commandeer the resources and the bureaucracies of state and local governments. >> in fact, this is an abiding belief -- >> that one i think will be out the window. >> it's an abiding belief of conservative justi...

Again you're seeing that on the state and local level. we'll e itncreasingly on the federal level as well. >> congresan, what role do you have in a congressional minority in the house which is often not particularly empowered. the house gives a lot of power to the majority. not like the senate where there's procedural elements that every senator has access to. what do you see as your role as you watch these executive orders being issued and the ones you substantively don't agree with how you oppose them. >> well, we're increasingly empowered by the massive popular resistance anna was describin...

The moist territory that would be covered at the border with mexico. and he's a republican congressman. and so we're starting to see big cracks in that republican coalition as a lot of the republican leaders increasingly want to distance themselves from what the trump administration is doing. >> and they're hearing from their constituents. >> we'll file briefs when we can and fight on the floor wherever we can. >> congressman jamie raskin, anna gallon of move on, thank you for joining us. that's "all in" for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, thanks, my f...