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Bill Nelson uses farewell address to remind colleagues 'no one person is above the law'
BY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 12/13/18 09:45 AM EST
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) on Wednesday reminded his colleagues that "no one person is above the law" in the executive branch in his farewell Senate farewell speech.
"We as senators have been given unique responsibility to provide advise and consent to the executive branch, and we must take this charge seriously and with independence from another branch," Nelson said during the address.
"We must uphold rule of law, and in doing so, we must affirm that no one person is above the law," he added.
Nelson's comments came on the same day that President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison stemming from from eight federal charges Cohen pleaded guilty to in August, including campaign finance violations tied to a scheme to pay off two women alleging 2006 affairs with Trump.
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