Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley Speaks All Night Denouncing Authoritarianism – KXL

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has been speaking all night and into the early morning hours of Wednesday, filibustering about the Trump Administration and its “authoritarian” ways of governing.

Oregon’s junior senator began speaking at 4pm on Tuesday and says outright that President Donald Trump is a “great threat to democracy” and said that a government should never send its military to confront peaceful protesters.

Merkley spoke for 30 hours back in February to denounce the nomination of eventual Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought.