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“Daily Show” guest host Ronny Chieng on Tuesday slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after she fumbled a response to a question on habeas corpus, referring to the writ that protects people from unlawful detention as the right of the president to “remove people from this country.”
“Anyway, Kristi Noem, you still don’t know the basics of American law so I’m sorry to say —,” he said as dramatic music played, a play on Noem reportedly liking a reality TV show idea where immigrants battle it out for U.S. citizenship.
“We’re going to have to take YOU out of USA!”
Earlier in his monologue, Chieng said Americans shouldn’t worry if they don’t know what habeas corpus is as Noem “didn’t Google it either.”
He then turned to a separate question Noem took at a Senate committee hearing from Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who asked Noem where the suspension clause of habeas corpus is in the Constitution.
“I do not, nope,” Noem bluntly replied.
“Do you know which article it is in?” Kim asked.
“No, I do not, sir,” Noem added.
“Well, it is in Article I,” Kim noted.
Chieng went on to call on lawmakers to stop asking Noem “harder questions.”
“Like, how would senators like it if Kristi Noem asked you questions that she was an expert in, huh? ‘Hey, Senator Kim, do you know how to trick a puppy into walking into an open grave?’” quipped Chieng, referring to Noem’s puppy killing scandal.
“No? Not so smart now, are you?”
Check out more of Chieng’s Tuesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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