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Jeff Sessions: “I spent 15 years in the Department of Justice. My view was that a Solicitor General would never participate in what this…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
I spent 15 years in the Department of Justice. My view was that a Solicitor General would never participate in what this Department's Solicitor General has participated in, the failure to defend the perfectly defensible statute.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions expresses disappointment over the Solicitor General's failure to defend a statute.

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