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Jeff Sessions: I do believe that if an Attorney General is asked to do something that is plainly unlawful, he cannot participate in…

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
I do believe that if an Attorney General is asked to do something that is plainly unlawful, he cannot participate in that.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions asserts the need for the Attorney General to refuse unlawful requests.

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