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Jeff Sessions: “I do not think it is activism that a judge would find a statute that is unconstitutional unconstitutional and if it is…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2009
I do not think it is activism that a judge would find a statute that is unconstitutional unconstitutional and if it is unconstitutional, it should not be enforced.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions defends judicial review of unconstitutional laws.

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