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Jeff Sessions: “At the Department of Justice you are not required to be a judge to be a prosecutor.”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
At the Department of Justice you are not required to be a judge to be a prosecutor.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the qualifications needed for prosecutors in the Department of Justice.

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