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Jeff Sessions: “I predicted, on the floor of the Senate, that much of that legislation that passed was not going to withstand…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
I predicted, on the floor of the Senate, that much of that legislation that passed was not going to withstand constitutional muster, and I think it didn't.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions expressed skepticism about the constitutionality of certain legislation.

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