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Jeff Sessions: “Regardless of whether or not the precedent justified the decision in Maloney, and I think we can argue about that, but…”

On the recordMay 7, 2009
Regardless of whether or not the precedent justified the decision in Maloney, and I think we can argue about that, but the point is that decision would eviscerate effectively the protection, the constitutional protection to keep and bear arms, if it became the Supreme Court opinion.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions warns that the Maloney decision could undermine Second Amendment protections.

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