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Jeff Sessions: “Normally, I was taught, if they violated the law, you charge them. If they did not violate the law, you do not charge…”

On the recordJune 14, 2010
Normally, I was taught, if they violated the law, you charge them. If they did not violate the law, you do not charge them.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions asserts that legal violations should lead to charges without exceptions.

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