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Jeff Sessions: “The Department of Justice should defend laws that Congress passed unless they are unable to do so in a reasonable way.”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
The Department of Justice should defend laws that Congress passed unless they are unable to do so in a reasonable way.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions emphasizes the DOJ's duty to uphold laws passed by Congress.

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