Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you for your willingness to serve our country in this critically important position.”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.