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On the recordSeptember 27, 2010
I think Justice Ginsburg was correct in saying that if Congress were to take up the enterprise of criminalizing 'undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,' it 'would have to employ standards of sufficient definiteness and specificity to overcome due process concerns.'
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions references Justice Ginsburg's concerns about vague criminal statutes.

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