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Jeff Sessions: “I do not think that the U.S. Senate and, I suspect, the New York legislature have always thoroughly studied the…”

On the recordOctober 6, 2009
I do not think that the U.S. Senate and, I suspect, the New York legislature have always thoroughly studied the constitutionality of what they pass when they pass it.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions questions the thoroughness of legislative constitutional reviews.

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