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Jeff Sessions: “It did not deny 250,000 people the right to vote. That would be utterly wrong and should be stopped immediately.”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
It did not deny 250,000 people the right to vote. That would be utterly wrong and should be stopped immediately.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions defends that the ID issue did not prevent voting rights.

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