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4. This feels like obstruction...
Tue May 28, 2019, 08:30 AM
May 2019

The Senate will not be allowed to do the job they took an oath to do, with the foreknowledge of defeat (to me that means you are not going to be allowed to do your job correctly) how can that not be obstruction?





obstruction
noun UK ​ /əbˈstrʌk.ʃən/ US ​ /əbˈstrʌk.ʃən/

[ C or U ] something that blocks a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or the act of blocking something in this way:
There's some kind of obstruction on the railway tracks.

[ U ] behaviour or actions that prevent something from happening or working correctly:
They were charged with obstruction of the police/of justice (= preventing the police/law courts from doing their jobs).

[ U ] in sport an occasion when one player gets in the way of another and so prevents them from moving freely:
The referee said it was obstruction.

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